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Two men are speeding through a construction zone on a California freeway. They have identical speeds and driving records.
They’re both stopped and get tickets. One man pays $500 and the other $100.
How is that possible? One driver is white and the other is a member of a minority group.
This illegal experiment in disproportionate racial impact known as ‘AB-645 Vehicles: Speed Safety System Pilot Program” passed the California State Assembly 62-9 and the Senate by 29-6 (the ‘no’ votes were nearly all from Republicans) before being signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom. And the systemically racist program is now being rolled out in LA, San Francisco, and other areas before the two-tier fine system can be implemented statewide.
Contrary to its name, AB-645 doesn’t crack down on speeding, instead it actually gives speeders a pass as long as they meet an economic test which will lead to more speeding.
And, like many DEI programs trying to bypass Supreme Court rulings outlawing equity-based racial discrimination, it’s using income tests to disguise its underlying systemic racism, but the racial bias is written right into the text of the bill which falsely claims that “traditional enforcement methods have had a well-documented disparate impact on communities of color, and implicit or explicit racial bias”, mandates that its governing body will work with “racial equity” groups and orders a “racial and economic equity impact analysis” of the impact of fines on minorities.
Speeding enforcement is a matter of math and the least racially biased form of enforcement there is. Two men going 25 miles above the speed limit should receive identical fines.
California’s Democrat majority has now created actual systemically racist enforcement.
Here’s how it works.
AB-645 requires LA, San Francisco and other areas to slash fines and penalties by 80% for “indigent” individuals and by 50% for low-income individuals “up to 250 percent above the federal poverty level.” According to the California Health Care Foundation, only 21% of low-income individuals are white, 60% are Latino and 7% are black.
Using California’s MediCal estimates and average household numbers, members of the average black household would be eligible for a 50% reduction, many Latino households would, but few white and Asian households would qualify for this 50% ‘reduction’ on their tickets and fines.
Those in the ‘indigent’ category, meaning their income is at 125% of the federal poverty level, receive not only an 80% discount, but the opportunity to substitute community service insead.
In San Francisco, one of the locations where this experiment is being rolled out, only 2.6% of white households would qualify for this 80% discount, but 17% of black households and 9.5% of Latinos would. In Los Angeles, only 6.9% of white households, but 14.7% of black households and 13.1% of Latino households would be eligible. (Only 7.9% of Asian households would.)
This is actual systemic racism and disproportionate impact on action.
That’s why the white driver pays $500 and the minority driver pays $100 even though they committed the same offense and have the same record. Another way of looking at it is that the white driver has his ticket and fines increased twofold to fivefold in the name of equity.
Is this experiment in systemic racial equity going to make California roads any safer?
The California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board claimed that black people made up 15% of traffic stops, three times their 5% population, Latinos, who make up 34% of the state, made up 45% of those who were stopped, while white people, who made up 34% of the state, made up 30% of traffic stops. Asians make up 15% of the state, but only 5.3% of traffic stops.
California authorities predictably blamed this on racism without explaining why officers and patrolmen, including in minority forces in major cities, were biased against blacks and Latinos, but not Asians. Despite the history of bigoted jokes and stereotypes about Asian drivers, they were actually far less likely to be stopped than white drivers were. If California law enforcement officers were conducting traffic stops based on their biases, shouldn’t they have been giving in to their prejudices about ‘Asian drivers’ stopping Asian drivers more? But they weren’t.
What these numbers actually revealed was that traffic stop demographics tend to follow the indexes of stable behavior, such as middle-class membership, two-parent families, and lack of involvement in criminal activities, which taken together are predictive of most other behaviors.
A California Policy Lab report castigating the California Highway Patrol for racism was forced to admit that “black-white and Hispanic-white disparities in stop rates for non-moving violations made a small contribution to overall disparities in stops rates.” It found a 17% higher stop rate for black drivers than white drivers for moving violations and a 6.8% higher stop rate for Hispanic drivers. The basis for these disparities was not race, but actual violations.
Assuming that all of this is racially driven also assumes that patrolmen are able to guess the race of a driver in a moving vehicle with incredible pinpoint accuracy before they stop him.
These numbers are not evidence of racial discrimination, but of different offense rates among different groups. By offering 50% and 80% lower ticket and fine rates for groups that are more likely to engage in driving violations, California Democrats are not only engaging in systemic discrimination, but lowering the punishment for bad behaviors by the most likely offenders.
And that will lead to more speeding, more car crashes and more deaths. And those deaths will disproportionately affect minority communities where the bad drivers they are protecting live.
Rather than doing minority groups a favor by letting minority drivers off the hook, California’s new two-tier fine system will lead to more deaths of more minority drivers and pedestrians in the same way that their police defunding programs had sent black murder rates soaring after 2020.
Democrats claim that systemic racism has lethal effects on communities. This systemic racist program actually will cost more minority lives. And leave their blood on Gov. Newsom’s hands.
The Corrupt California series chronicles the misconduct, mismanagement and radical politics of the most broken state in the country. Stay tuned for more articles in the series. Previous articles below:
[1] California Dems Fight Trump While State Burns: CLICK HERE.
[2] Ex-Illegal Alien Senator Suspected of Bribery Leads California’s Insurance: CLICK HERE.
[3] Company That May Have Started L.A. Fires Donated Millions to Dems: CLICK HERE.
[4] California’s Legislature Hides FBI Investigations in the “Public Interest” CLICK HERE.
[5] An Assassination Has Ties to California’s Political Elite: CLICK HERE.
[6] California Doubles Fine on White Drivers: CLICK HERE.
If this story is true, I’d say anyone who doesn’t move else where deserves to pay more for being so stupid……..or so cowardly.
As long as Black basketball 🏀 players continue to fly into hillsides in helicopters in foggy weather, with the encouragement of White liberals, I’m cool with this anti-White racist fine system.
Whatching these anti-Semitic Black players die horribly in splendiferously entertaining to an angry Jew like me. 😃
Kobe Bryant was a good guy and six other people died in that crash, including his daughter.
He was “Basketball Jones” for real. 🤫
What state do you live in? Fantasyland? Have you joined an armed rebellion against your state government for whatever atrocities it commits on a daily basis? Because unless you live in a state like Oklahoma, Wyoming or Idaho, your state is tyrannical and fucks over its citizens every day.
Are the colleges and universities in your state pro-American and beneficial to your state? I guarantee they are the exact opposite.
And on and on.
And real men and women try to fix problems, not run from them.
Shoe polish..
Get a can. Keep it in your glove compartment.
My Home State is run by total Idiots(Liberal Democrats)with Sawdust for Brains
@Plover:
You must be in real distress considering that your country is run by an orange blithering idiot.
The TOPIC is about California – try to keep up – eh!!
Wow – you Canucks surely have gotten all manly lately – I guess substituting a guy from NEW YORK CITY for the sissy leader you’ve had for a while might do that!
And one more thing – DO NOT kid yourself! That ROUND HAM is NOT BACON!!
Don’t guess we’ll be worried about you whizzing through Our Nation on your way to nice, sunny, VERY CONSERVATIVE Florida – might I suggest CALIFORNIA!!!
Non Sequitur alert!
You must be in real distress because the opposite of everything you wrote is the rule of the land.
And your stuck in your own stupidity
We get it Bobo. Discussing anything with a liberal is much like explaining a train schedule to a dog. It may sit there, wagging its tail, lolling its tongue, and appearing to be paying attention. But at the end of the day, the capacity for cogent thought just doesn’t exist. It’s not its fault. It’s just the way its brain is wired. Then it will go off into a corner and lick its own rear end.
It’s no different with the dog.
You were fan of Fidel’s boy Justin, weren’t you?
“Spurwing”,…..What a great name…….I like it.
A family name? What is it derived from?
Most of the time a policeman doesn’t know the race of the driver until the driver is already pulled over.
And…..? You really must be a dummkopf
We are all made equal in the eyes of God,but the progressive Left, dissed God a long time ago
Why is the “progressive” so outright stupid and anti-American?
i just don’t get it.
The anti-white racism of the Democratic Party is now front and center in the open.
Let’s hope Newsom is one of the first white drivers to get a speeding ticket under this new law.
Let’s hope he’s one of the first whiteys to be shot by the CHP on the side of a highway or freeway for driving without a dick and balls.
Any follow up on the Chicago cop who battered a Jewish older man’s car and returned later with tools to further smash up the car. Broke off the mirrors etc.? I think that was one muslim man’s (a police officer) personal DEI against the race he hates, Jews. Hey, why not? Since it is now a free for all.
I read he hasn’t been disciplined months down the road. So it’s OK behavior.
Yes, caught on video.
To paraphrase Abbie Hoffman, who stood trial in Chicago alongside the founder of THIS HERE Web Site, “Sometimes it is best to just Off The 🐖 Pig and have done with it.”
😎
He probably got a verbal apology because he’s a member of an “oppressed religion” and had the city donate big bucks to his mosque.
That will also increase accidents, injuries, and fatalities, since proportionally more dangerous drivers are minorities.
Yes. They regularly drive uninsured and cannot read the posted signs. Then add to this mix the minority big-rig truckers who are even worse traveling way above the posted speeds.
Good luck with car insurance!!
The people living in CA are their own worst enemies.
Vast natural beauty governed by complete human stupidity and they think they are sterling stewards of the state.
Yes. It finally came out that the driver of the 18-wheeler who smashed into 17 cars and killed several people in Austin, Texas, including an entire family of four and a newborn baby, is an illegal immigrant, unable to speak (or read?) English.
Had a commercial license, but probably no real training that used to be required to obtain it. Truck was full of stuff from Amazon, but Amazon now relies on independent contractors for that sort of thing so liability does not reach Amazon.
Actually I see Amazon delivery trucks every day but that company will deny any responsibility for that Mad Mex truck “driver.”
Actually, the majority of us Californians hate our tyrannical and seemingly insane state government but are mostly powerless against it. Armed rebellion isn’t going to happen here or in any other state.
Yes. For at least the last thirty years the majority of drunk driving convictions here in California have been on illegal aliens. Not Americans of Mexican descent, not people who emigrated here from Mexico but full on border jumpers.
And don’t get me started on scofflaw blacks and old Asian women who can’t even drive at a trained chimp’s level but never seem to get tickets.
Is there any state where the majority of traffic offenders aren’t so called minorities? I seriously doubt it.
Thanks Jeff !!!!!
The article at the top of todays sheet is about two tier law in England. Perhaps people will finally realize or admit that there has been a ruling class connection between little britain and the US for centuries.
The New england puritans feel that they are superior to us common trash obviously. They take their cue from the group from which they desperately want confirmation. The english country house set. How long will this be tolerated? It will take a revolt to get the US back on tracks. That is why they hate the Trump group so completely.
The people in California aren’t New England Puritans by any stretch of the imagination. The people in New England aren’t either.
They feel they are the “elect” superior to the common herd.
Good Day.
What are you talking about?
So effing unconstitutional. Perfect for F**kifornia
I agree with fines based on one’s wealth 🤷🏿♀️
It is actually based on race, not wealth. They lie.
I thought criminal penalties are supposed to reflect the crime.
I prefer the 14th amendment.
Not a chance this doesn’t violate 14th Amendment equal protection. Ridiculous! Illegal! Stupid!
Yes. Let’s see how long it takes those sluggards on the Supreme Court to rule on this, if ever.
This law reveals the overwhelming bias of the liberals. They try to hide their racist tendencies, but their foolishness is now available for all to see. They cannot deny that they are racists because this stupidity has been exposed for all to see. This will last about five minutes when it gets into the courts. But I am afraid white people are not going to take this crap and might be pushed to the boiling point. White libtards probably like this until they get a ticket or until they make more restrictive law on whites. This will not end well.
My custom made t-shirt states “I am a white, hetero male. Please don’t hate me.”
Con man Ibram X Kendi specifically calls for racial discrimination against whites now and in the future. It is a sad commentary on the state of higher education that he gets paid with taxpayers’ money to spread his hate.
Since men go to prison at 9 times the rate of women, if leftists were consistent they would declare that this is irrefutably systemic misandry and call for going much easier on men or much harder on women.
Your quote, “Con man Ibram X Kendi specifically calls for racial discrimination against whites now and in the future.”
That statement says he is Racist, & he is supposed to be educated. He is a sick joke.
This is to punish us for abandoning the dangerous mass-transit systems.
Governor Nuisance wants to still fund his B.S. Train in anyway this miserable little Weasel can
Dangerous, unreliable and disgusting.
I identify as Black and you a raciss honky if you don’ agree.
I know of two people who were recently given $500 traffic fines. Both are white. One of them is a recent refugee from Ukraine and is desperately poor. I think color is the actual guideline being used by the California traffic courts. The rest is to confuse.
How is this idiotic and racist conceit not brazenly and blatantly unconstitutional? I assume this latest idiocy/lunacy from the Commiefornia Dhimmi-crats will be successfully challenged in court, but, that the Dhimmi-crat apparatchiks are nonchalant and unperturbed about proffering such corrosive, racist and inequitable conceits speaks to the intrinsic evil of their vile and wretched Party.
So … they’re just codifying what’s certainly an existing practice in most of Commiefornia.
Even here in Texas … a white criminal gets the book on the first throw
… a non-white gets the book
… only after he advances to the murder stage.
@Plover:
You must be in real distress considering that your country is run by a blithering orange idiot.
You must be in distress because you’re lying moron from a dozen country of boring losers.
California has officially become the epicenter of insanity.
It sounds pretty unconstitutional to me.
Hmmm…. I combed through the bill’s text and could find NO information about the alleged racist points. What I did discover was a motley collection of organizations against that include de ACLU, black lives matter, and Human Rights Watch !!! Here’s a link to the full text.
https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240ab645
Hm. Yet every demographic to be persecuted just so happens to be white.
The chicoms running California must see some advantage in driving whites out.