Is there a more futile use of police resources? But still the NSW Police Force persists. Officers stand guard on either side of a busy city intersection to spot and then issue a fine to people crossing the road incorrectly.
A pedestrian gets a fine for crossing the street on a red pedestrian light during a recent crackdown in Sydney.And there's an esoteric menu of infringements for the officers to choose from, some of which are hugely open to interpretation: crossing when the pedestrian light is not green, not crossing the road quickly enough, not using the shortest safe route to cross the road.
Vehicle traffic still reigns supreme in the CBD. This is in evidence at nearly any intersection, as footpaths teem with people waiting for their few allotted seconds when it's "legal" to cross the road.
It is not futile while pedestrian deaths are so high in Sydney VisionZero
Going after the violent jay walkers and cannabis smokers as usual.
shaheem64 its CORPORATE AUSTRALIA... GET IT?
All for it, given root cause of pedestrian injuries - ppl walking on the road (you know, the black bit with the cars on it). No one seems to take issue with 'futile' speed cameras, doing drivers for 43 in the 40 zone.
The only crimes are ones you can fine, never mind common law.
It’s not futile if you understand the purpose. It’s a revenue stream. Always look at the actual purpose of an activity beyond the stated purpose, most of it comes back to money.
Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road.
It is also blatantly unfair. Often no one presses the button so lights don't turn green but would have if the button was pressed. My son was fined $75 on Oxford street walking home from work. Next day a man was changing into his tutu outside Vinnies and the police did nothing.
It’s pathetic of the police. Most people are simply rushing to get back to their office and do their jobs so they can feed their families and pay tax
It's only futile because they don't keep doing it in mass. Instead of 8 police following dogs what about a month of hard Jay walking policing and fines.
That's how badly the LNP are running NSW. It takes jaywalking tickets to pay for the new stadiums. GladysB
48 pedeatrians died in NSW alone in 2017 being hit by motor vehicles. More than those killed by assaults.
Thats because they cant do anything else
Perhaps police are given this task by their commanders?
Revenue raising
I jaywalk out of principle for the sh1thouse priority pedestrians get from roads authorities Want to discourage jaywalking? The easiest way is to make it less attractive
Is it just me or is being fined for jay walking like being charged with theft for taking too many straws from Macca’s
All it means is ppl will be looking for the Police before they J-Walk
Fining has to be better than scraping their torn corpses off the road.
It's all about money. What do the cops do with all the fine money they collect? Where does it go?
Protecting the community cause all that really nasty heavy criminal activity with the drugs, guns and gang shit has all been apparently solved? Hey you with the walking stick. You took too long to cross the road.
They should be outside Fairfield West Public school of an afternoon and see all those parents walk their kids through heavy traffic when there is a set of lights to cross at. Parents teaching their children the wrong thing.
Can we concentrate on domestic violence? Possibly removing children from an abusive environment? Priorities!
Revenue raising at its finest.....
Sounds like Nicholas Gordon got fined. It is chaos now with pedestrians crossing roads when & where they feel like it and someone get killed or badly injured. What would you say Nicholas,’ I wonder how that happened!’ How stupid are people if like you say,Cops are standing there.
lol I literally will never pay a fine for jaywalking. they can take me to court if they like.
Pedestrian fatalities on the road outside my work were fairly common due to a big jaywalking mentality. Police started doing high vis fine blitzes & people rarely cross against the lights now. Obvi I can’t offer insight to other problem areas but it’s certainly changed ours.
Murders and domestic violence keep happening too, is that futile too? 🤯🤯
the state is obsessive in a nanny state control so they have statutes from helmet to jaywalking They should be scrapped
I would rather go to jail than pay that fine.
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