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Re:LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by wahnfrieden on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @02:52AM (#43396419)
See NYC's recent law changes to legalize jaywalking. I won't pull up the exact citations but there were evenly distributed tendencies to jaywalk yet something like 80-90% of police engagements were with PoC
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Re:LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:31AM (#43397732)
I am not disputing that, the comment I replied to assumed that offenses were not evenly distributed because two of the examples in the set of petty crimes was not evenly distributed offenses by demographic.

Note that this is commission of offense as opposed to say police activity around offense, which is a different thing, as you note with your jaywalking example.

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