AS long AS there's some kind of profit in it.

If so lets do like Switzerland and Sweden and base fines on the ability to pay.

than blacks (often thanks to red-lining and loan denials to blacks despite similar income), so with the pounding indoctrination by the teabagger media to get rid of "taxes" (in this case, higher property taxes for homeowners), then the revenue must come from somewhere ("the least among us&quot .

the Congress-Lobbyist Industry is a profit center. The U.S. is one big whorehouse with a mean pimp.

It's not really a town where the weather or the layout would make getting around by bike a pleasant option. People ticketed on bikes likely don't have a safer way to get around.

Absolutely couldn't say it any better Snotsiez.

Yet

We can't win.

Merely being alive is more than the pigs can handle.

and feed the prison pipeline. For nothing more than people with money and power, or their young, do all the time.

Not sure how much better it is than dying. A lifetime of servitude guaranteed for almost anyone with a record. Starting with nothing more than being black.

Posted this on facebook yesterday, it applies...

The problem boils down to the enforcement of crime targets a minority population without the resources to defend themselves, and frequently utilizes them as a fund raising source.

In this country, African Americans get unequal enforcement, they are targeted by law enforcement. They get unequal prosecution. They get unequal defense. And lastly they get unequal punishment. It's institutionalized racism; it's that simple.

Remember what i said about targeting. This is how they do it they conduct what's called a pretextual stop.

A "pretext" or "pretextual" stop is a stop in which the officer detains the citizen for a minor crime (i.e. traffic offense) because the officer hopes to find during the stop evidence that the person is involved in another, more significant crime (i.e. drug possession). There are numerous minor infractions for which officers can legally stop someone. As such, officers frequently choose which who to pull over based on the hope that something more serious might be going on. Police officers often make this decision based on age, race, and appearance. This is unconstitutional, but impossible to prove.

Unfortunately black people are targeted by racist cops because of skin color, which is easy to spot.

The white power structure can only push so much until there's a mass reaction. All of these drips of repression are adding up to be a tidal wave. Shit has to change in this country.

for the cops. Not perfect, but if there is a record of the incident, at least there will be some kind of hearing.

I would expect to be pulled over by the police for riding at night without lights. A push bike is a vehicle, and cars going down the street at night with no lights is definitely unsafe.

Riding with a friend on the handlebars, while not being safe either, shouldn't be "ticketed" IMO. The person who is most likely to get hurt is the one on the handlebars and if they like hospital food then they can go on ahead knowing that they are likely to get hurt. Plus it's not very comfortable riding there.

But deliberately targeting poor neighbourhoods to ticket? Eurgh.