<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/23/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Thomas John Vitolo</b> <<a href="mailto:tjvitolo@bu.edu">tjvitolo@bu.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> =v= This response sidesteps the issue of harassment, which is<br>> much worse than the "did something against the law" infraction.<br><br>At the end of the day, its not clear that you can argue that a stepped up police
<br>enforcement on bicycle infractions is selective enforcement, since cyclists are<br>made up of the entire spectrum of society -- spanning race, gender, age, wealth,<br>etc. Sure, there are probably more men riding bikes than women, but I'd bet
<br>that there are more miles driven by men than women too.<br></blockquote></div><br>
The point is that "cyclists," while they may be made of different
demographics (a point which I'd question - most people I see riding
bikes are young and look to be lower-to-middle class, which makes sense
in Boston because it would include many people who don't own cars), are
their own demographic in and of themselves. If cyclists are
pulled over more frequently than cars for arguably less dangerous
infractions, which it seems recently they have been, then that is an
example of selective enforcement.<br>