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In first two months of California daylighting law, San Diego police gives out 4,200 tickets
(fox5sandiego.com)
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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~~The only way they could be discriminatory with this campaign is if they disagreed with the owners bumper stickers. So I think it's safe to say that there was no discrimination.~~
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Given that most cities have areas with varying proportions of people of different ethnicities, yeah it can be discriminatory. They just target certain neighborhoods and know that those are far more likely to be people of a certain background. Not saying they did or didn't do it here, but that's how they can do things like that.
There also general differences in the types of infrastructure that could also correlate.
Higher income areas often have larger land plots, and while there may be plenty of nice sidewalks, crosswalks would likely be fewer and far between, so there would be less infrastructure affected by this.
There are a lot of ways discrimination can be seen de despite it not being a factor. Although discrimination via other factors obviously results in those differences in the first place. Lots of correlation without direct causation when it comes to things like this specifically.
It would be interesting to see a map with where the ticked offense took place with demographic data. There is. Fair chance that minorities get the short end on this.
Well it could also depend on area, the type of car, the officer knows who owns the car. Discrimination can be subtle and unconscious a lot of the time.