• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    19 days ago

    This law was already not being enforced. Only 463 people actually got in trouble for breaking it in 2023, so the odds of being punished for jaywalking that year were about the same as the odds of being murdered.

    I do wonder what effect repealing the law will have on civil suits. If a driver hits a pedestrian, are there now new situations in which the driver is liable? The article says

    People may also still be liable in civil actions for accidents caused by jaywalking

    but that’s quite vague.

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      19 days ago

      I think the point is cops can’t use jaywalki g as a pretense to stop and frisk, ask for ID, etc now.

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    Whoever wrote that headline never saw Midnight Cowboy, where “I’m walking here!” is from, and it’s been annoying me since yesterday.

    That scene didn’t involve jaywalking. In fact, the whole point was the car was at fault.

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    19 days ago

    I wonder what the body count Will be in year 1? New York streets are not the best places to be walking.

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      19 days ago

      It’s a dense city made for walking and the law says all vehicles must yield to them, even if they were “breaking the law”. That was the case even before this passed…

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        19 days ago

        The law says all vehicles must yield to them, even if they were “breaking the law”.

        Source? I’d like to read that.