Bikes . . . have “become the most common mode of transportation for criminals.”
OK, that’s just ethnic profiling of Dutch people. I think they’re just gonna put the whole country on lockdown.
Bikes . . . have “become the most common mode of transportation for criminals.”
OK, that’s just ethnic profiling of Dutch people. I think they’re just gonna put the whole country on lockdown.
It’s a little off-topic but this –
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2015/04/privileged-white-guy-comes-to-agonizing.html
I’m so naive I thought “ridin’ dirty” was when I didn’t hose down the mountain bike after a ride.
Now that I think about it, this is pretty inevitable to have happened somewhere, and probably in more than one place. Minor infractions are common among cyclists, making it easy to stop pretty much anyone you want to if they are riding a route with some stop signs.
What percent of bike ridership is black?
Given that the Black population is probably a lot poorer and, most likely, live in more compact areas than whites where cycling is a very practical method of transportation, the percentage is probably quite high, particularly for people riding in “civies” rather than spandex.
As for why the poor might ride bikes more:
Where I live in Canada, one can pick up a BSO,(bicycle-shaped-object,) new, from a big-box store for perhaps CDn $120, find a used one for CDN $20-50 and probably buy a top-notch, albeit, stolen bike for CDN $50.
Bikes are cheap, easy to use, and have no fuel costs and minimal maintenance costs. I’d say that odds that a higher proportion of blacks use bicycles for practical everyday transportion as opposed to recreational riding that white riders might be more likely to do.
I suspect that the probability of a middle-aged white cyclist in full cycling gear and mounted on a US$ 3,000 bicycle being pulled over is a lot less than it is for a 20 year-old black male youth in jeans and a hoodie and riding a Huffy.
I don’t have any statistics here for Tampa, but in general blacks are less likely to be bike riders than whites or Hispanics.
e.g. http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/07/01/197416434/minority-cyclists-black-women-bike (although this is about one city, and is about adult cyclists, so it’s a weak response to Rahul’s point)
‘”Bikes, Tampa Police Chief Jane Cantor said in a statement, have “become the most common mode of transportation for criminals.”
“This is not a coincidence. Many individuals receiving bike citations are involved in criminal activity,” the statement reads.”
And how many autombile drivers are being, essentially randomly, stopped and searched?
Hopefully the chief is a bit better at other parts of her job.