Los Angeles Pedestrians Look Forward to Relaxed Jaywalking Law
While Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck was out of the office signing on to an LAPD task force to enforce a pedestrian law change that could get Los Angeles into the national forefront of pedestrian law enforcement, the streets around City Hall were crawling with pedestrians who knew better than to look over their shoulder at the sight of a policeman walking down the sidewalk.
And then there was the time when the only LAPD patrol car at an event that Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley was attending had a pedestrian with a sign reading “Please, I don’t need to walk.”
When the police officers walked down the sidewalk toward us, we looked over our shoulders. Police officers never make eye contact. Even when they are walking away and not talking about us.
When we look over our shoulders, we are doing it in the hope that a crime will not happen.
When the police officers walk down the sidewalk toward us, we look over our shoulders. Police officers never make eye contact. Even when they are walking away and not talking about us.
When we look over our shoulders, we are doing it in the hope that a crime will not happen.
We were there at a press conference announcing the upcoming end of the Jaywalking Law, which was intended by Mayor Villaraigosa to make parking and walking to and from businesses more difficult. The police walk signal, originally created to allow pedestrians to get from point A to point B in safety, in reality has been nothing more than a means to allow police to walk the streets in the middle of the day when motorists cannot.
And then there was the time when the only LAPD patrol car at an event that Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley was attending had a pedestrian with a sign reading “Please, I don’t need to walk.”
When the police officers walked down the sidewalk toward us, we looked over our shoulders. Police officers never make eye contact. Even when they are walking away and not talking about us.
When we look over our shoulders, we are doing it in the hope that a crime will not happen.
When the police officers