History of Loitering | Racist American History

How laws are created, selectively enforced and results in the mass incarceration of Black and Brown people.
newtboysays...

I don't disagree with their premise of why these laws were written or how they're historically used, but as a white punk, I was harassed for loitering dozens of times and often threatened with arrest. Because I was usually holding, I usually complied and walked away ASAP instead of arguing, when I didn't it was always far worse, up to and including being put in handcuffs for hours while they decided if I was worth arresting or they should just ticket me....so it's not only used as a racist tool.

Mordhaussays...

Well, you give a cop a law and they will find someone to pick on.

Except jaywalking, nobody seems to enforce that shit here in Austin. Can't tell you how many times I've had some dumb ass professor or student cross right in front of me, many times with no walk signal and nowhere near a crosswalk. Same thing on Lamar, try to go get a fucking street taco or something and see how many people just meander across a 4 lane road.

newtboysaid:

I don't disagree with their premise of why these laws were written or how they're historically used, but as a white punk, I was harassed for loitering dozens of times and often threatened with arrest. Because I was usually holding, I usually complied and walked away ASAP instead of arguing, when I didn't it was always far worse, up to and including being put in handcuffs for hours while they decided if I was worth arresting or they should just ticket me....so it's not only used as a racist tool.

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