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Many of those vehicles belong to BIPOC and undocumented immigrants who do the necessary and underpaid jobs required for NYC to function at all.

Vigilante broken-windows policing cannot be the answer to lawless behavior.

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Consider that underpaid BIPOC and undocumented immigrants are less likely to be able to own a car and are thus, as pedestrians, more at risk of injury from reckless drivers. Also consider that a $200 fine, while still unfortunate, is a hell of a lot easier to recover from than being hit by 2 tons of SUV at high speed.

Who cares?

What on earth is your point, that they shouldn't be subjected to the same enforcement expectations as everyone else?

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