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Thank you for giving the background on that location.

As much as I dislike ol Skeeter, this is one instance where he has nothing to do with it. Jaywalking is a local ordinance.
That's why I said "trot your ass down to CITY HALL and lobby for a change in the ordinance.
Didn't your daddy ever tell you that two wrongs don't make a right.

Besides,,,,, we all know that Skeeter's the only one allowed to disobey laws he doesn't agree with.

That is not why she was thrown into the back of the police car, this instead shows somebody's bias.

The attitude down there on "The Drag" area is Pedestrians Always Have the Right of Way.

Rost,

If the law worked so good then you wouldn't have the need to "Expect" college students to step out in front of you while driving there. I doubt very much that the homeless in Austin are somehow more disciplined in their restraint from breaking the law than other areas of the country as well.

As to the bank scenario, I've already posted the fact that laws against theft,property damage etc. have been "on the books" for centuries. A person doesn't have to be physically injured or even present to be victimized.

FieldGrade,

Are not your local constabulary and judiciary members required to swear and oath to defend the state and fed constitution?

Pretty simple, laws even though they are on the books, are not all enforced. If you don't enforce them, its like they aren't there.

First person or three do it, no reprocussion other than getting run over and killed possibly, and the word gets out. I'm lazy so I will just cross where ever when ever.

The irony to me on this on, she was exercising... she didn't need to take a short cut and you can jog in place till you have the ROW...

We were in Baltimore almost a year ago. My wife got tired of me hollering at the idiots crossing at wrong places and times...

So I actually heard about this jaywalking issue becoming a bigger issue before this all happened It was on the local news. Not like folks didn't know it wasn't going to be enforced more.

And of course there are so many laws on the books, and so few police, its hard to be everywhere all the time.

Those phat ass cops could stand to do some exercising, disgraceful.

The downtown area is filling up fast with well to do hipsters living
in high rise condos. City demographics have changed. The piss pants
schizo-homeless and winos have been displaced.

One day soon one of them diabetic garbage men in blue is going to kill
some connected guys son or daughter over some trifle. That little jogger
gal is the tip of the iceberg.

1- The chief is an epic dumbazz for throwing out the "sexual assaults" comment when responding to a question about a jay walker. WTF?

2- How in the Sam Hell did that girl get caught by those two pudding asses? She should of hung 'em the bird and kept jogging. They would of stroked out in a block...max.

Nobody said it's just but it's still the law at this time. We have mechanisms for repealing unjust laws and until that's done, it's still the law. In this country, you don't repeal a law by ignoring it. You take steps to have it officially repealed. She obviously hasn't done that (but maybe she will now).

"Where is your yellow Star of David Juden?? You refused to identify yourself? We have a train waiting for your type of social deviant."

I've had a change of heart. Jaywalking laws are unconstitutional and stupid.

This is a much better solution...

...and who says they DON'T have jaywalking laws?

Were you deprived of oxygen at birth?

ROR


oh to be thankful and grateful, that's the ticket Lt.


as an aside if you get promoted past Lieutenant, that's gonna play hades with us around here


I certainly hope they consider such during your performance reviews

Save your breath RC.
SBTCO clearly has no desire to change the laws when he can simply set behind his keyboard and bitch about em.

The picture you posted above looks very much like a street scene in India, New Delhi maybe. And yes, they do have jaywalking laws there too. Working out mighty well.

But I don't know, maybe the runner chick had it easy. Better to to just beat the shyte out of 84 yr. old guys for the same infraction.

http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/kang-wong-jaywalking-ticket-nypd/2014/01/21/id/548037

AS to your misguided perception/attack of my theoretical lack of oxygen at birth, it only lowers you to the level of progressive socialists who have failed to bolster their argument but if you must, forge ahead.

And there you have it.

'Tis hard to know the full deal - maybe she brought most of it onto herself, maybe the police went overboard - maybe both - such things seem to happen every day. If so, can't rage over that. But, that chief telling citizens they should be glad that his troops didn't sexually molest anyone - that calls for some hard critique.

Looks like another failure in responsible and professional law enforcement from the street to the chief.

If any of those who believe this is a non-issue would have been sitting on that sidewalk with Austin's finest on either side, that perception would change. Of course, most think that not possible since they are law abiding folk. That's just stinking thinking. Unless you're boss hog of some podunk, no one is immune to power gluttony and it's abuses in these United States. You just haven't experienced it yet.