US Newsom signs bill decriminalizing most jaywalking in California - Now if you die, at least you weren't committing a crime!

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SACRAMENTO – Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a measure from a Bay Area lawmaker that would decriminalize jaywalking in most cases.

On Friday, Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2147 by Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), which the author has dubbed "The Freedom to Walk Act."

AB2147 lets pedestrians cross the street outside of an intersection when it's safe to do so. It also limits when officers can stop a pedestrian for jaywalking to situations where there is an immediate danger of a collision.

"It should not be a criminal offense to safely cross the street," Ting said in a statement. "When expensive tickets and unnecessary confrontations with police impact only certain communities, it's time to reconsider how we use our law enforcement resources and whether our jaywalking laws really do protect pedestrians."

Ting said jaywalking laws, which were implemented in the 1930s due to the rise of automobiles, are arbitrarily enforced and tickets are disproportionately given to people of color and in low-income communities. His office cited a study of California Racial and Identity Profiling Act data showing Black residents are stopped 4.5 times more for jaywalking than their White counterparts.

The assemblymember noted police encounters that have started as jaywalking stops have turned deadly, including the 2018 death of Chinedu Okobi, who died during an encounter with San Mateo County Sheriff's Deputies in Millbrae. Prosecutors cleared the deputies of criminal charges.

"No longer will law enforcement be able to stop people who are safely crossing the street and burden them with citations and heaps of debt. For too long, our jaywalking laws were used as a pretext to stop and harass people, especially low-income people and people of color," said Zal Shroff of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

A similar measure introduced by Ting last year passed the legislature and was vetoed by Newsom.

Ting's bill was among several transportation-related measures signed by Newsom in recent days, including a measure to fast track climate friendly transportation projects and a measure to eliminate parking requirements for buildings near transit.

AB2147 goes into effect on January 1, 2023.

 

[Blacklight]

Have any of you Kiwis ever been stopped for jaywalking in your entire life? I do it all the time since where I live is pretty spaced out and I'd rather not walk another 2 city block lengths to get to the nearest crosswalk, when I can just go across the road safely.

 

[AnotherPleb]

I see the plan of 'decriminializing nigger shit' is still going strong.

 

[mandatorylurk]

I see this becoming a new insurance scam and shakedown for bums in these cities, just jump across at the last second, then sue the shit out of the shmuck driving to work to afford being able to move out of the shithole state.

 

[LaxerBRO]

I would use this as an opportunity to block Gavin Newsom motorcade.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Isn't being stopped for jaywalking basically just a fig leaf for 'You clearly look like a fucking criminal, and I want to search you; but if I say that, I will get turfed out for racism.'? If so, then this is just going to make it harder for cops to stop nigger behaviour before it manifests fully.

 

[Megaton Punch]

Isn't being stopped for jaywalking basically just a fig leaf for 'You clearly look like a fucking criminal, and I want to search you; but if I say that, I will get turfed out for racism.'? If so, then this is just going to make it harder for cops to stop nigger behaviour before it manifests fully.

Almost like that's the entire goal

 

[Kheapathic]

Isn't being stopped for jaywalking basically just a fig leaf for 'You clearly look like a fucking criminal, and I want to search you; but if I say that, I will get turfed out for racism.'? If so, then this is just going to make it harder for cops to stop nigger behaviour before it manifests fully.

As a Californian resident, it's not just joggers. There's a plethora of people who will try to cross a road and somehow fuck it up; I can always reason most of them have drug problems, but there are also people who will literally go into the middle/left-turn lane of a five-lane road and either walk there or just hang out. California has a problem with retards of all types being in the middle of the fucking road, and decriminalizing something that never really gets enforced isn't going to fix it.

 

[Ensok]

As if there aren't enough filthy fucking Indians treating the street like a god damn hangout here.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Have any of you Kiwis ever been stopped for jaywalking in your entire life? I do it all the time since where I live is pretty spaced out and I'd rather not walk another 2 city block lengths to get to the nearest crosswalk, when I can just go across the road safely.

Key word there is "Safely". You get hobos and joggers strolling across busy six lane roads without a care in the world.

As a Californian resident, it's not just joggers. There's a plethora of people who will try to cross a road and somehow fuck it up; I can always reason most of them have drug problems, but there are also people who will literally go into the middle/left-turn lane of a five-lane road and either walk there or just hang out. California has a problem with retards of all types being in the middle of the fucking road, and decriminalizing something that never really gets enforced isn't going to fix it.

But I wonder how decriminalizing it will affect liability for car accidents involving jay walkers.

 

[Beak Thing]

But I wonder how decriminalizing it will affect liability for car accidents involving jay walkers.

Won't be a problem after he signs the next bill outlawing private vehicles.

 

[Matt Damon]

As if there aren't enough filthy fucking Indians treating the street like a god damn hangout here.

Are there not sidewalks and yards and parks in California?

I have the distinct privilege of living in white, middle-class flyover country and there are plenty of places here for people to congregate that aren't the middle of public roadways.

 

[JosephStalin]

Have any of you Kiwis ever been stopped for jaywalking in your entire life? I do it all the time since where I live is pretty spaced out and I'd rather not walk another 2 city block lengths to get to the nearest crosswalk, when I can just go across the road safely.

I never have been, but my son was, in Santa Barbara, CA, years ago. I jaywalk as needed. Whatever.

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

Are there not sidewalks and yards and parks in California?

I have the distinct privilege of living in white, middle-class flyover country and there are plenty of places here for people to congregate that aren't the middle of public roadways.

They exist. Niggers just have a compulsion to just walk into a busy road and expect everyone to come to a screeching halt for them, especially at night.

 

[Kheapathic]

Are there not sidewalks and yards and parks in California?

I have the distinct privilege of living in white, middle-class flyover country and there are plenty of places here for people to congregate that aren't the middle of public roadways.

There are, mostly, the more rural areas don't always have sidewalks. Street I grew up on was paved in the 1950s and was in disrepair, my town had sidewalks, but they were something that didn't exist in our neighborhood. The problem is a lot of idiots exist and would rather run across the street instead of go to a cross walk; and while I understand not wanting to have to walk extra steps, a lot of people have bad judgement/timing or are just retarded. This is also more of a city problem, because California doesn't care about rural living unless it's a vacation spot they can ruin. There's also illegals who decide to run across the interstate in the middle of the night.

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

I see the plan of 'decriminializing nigger shit' is still going strong.

Now they can jaywalk while rapping about their recent criminal activity on their way to poz some neg holes without having to worry about any legal consequences.

 

[teriyakiburns]

The entire concept of jaywalking is alien to me. You can actually be arrested for crossing the road?

 

[The Last Stand]

The entire concept of jaywalking is alien to me. You can actually be arrested for crossing the road?

I've never seen it enforced, but imagine that you're driving and somebody randomly crosses in the middle of the road. You're going the speed limit and you suddenly have to STOP to avoid hitting the pedestrian. You could possibly get rear-ended from the jaywalker's actions.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I've never seen it enforced, but imagine that you're driving and somebody randomly crosses in the middle of the road. You're going the speed limit and you suddenly have to STOP to avoid hitting the pedestrian. You could possibly get rear-ended from the jaywalker's actions.

Run them over. It's what St Terry would want.

 

[The Last Stand]

Run them over. It's what St Terry would want.

Cool, may I practice on you?