Jaywalking

[Giant Communist Robot]

Honolulu has placed plainclothes police on corners in Waikiki to catch jaywalkers. If this were about safety, they'd just have a uniformed policeman there to stop them. Just more revenue enhancement. Why don't they just walk down the sidewalk and relieve people of their excess money at gunpoint?

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Why don't they just walk down the sidewalk and relieve people of their excess money at gunpoint?

Looks bad in the tourist brochures. Mahalo.

[piqaboo]

Have they managed the bus schedules to maximize revenue from this source? Having the bus pull away from an across-the-street stop right before the light changes ought to be good to increase the take.

[Shapley]

Honolulu has placed plainclothes police on corners in Waikiki to catch jaywalkers. If this were about safety, they'd just have a uniformed policeman there to stop them. Just more revenue enhancement.

I think it's about the psychology of the thing. If you announce that there will be plainclothes officers at the streetcorner, and ensure that the word is out, you don't really have to deploy them to reduce the incidence of jaywalking. An occassional arrest is sufficient to convince the people that the threat is real. They don't know when they're being watched and when they're not, so the overall incidence should decline. If you use uniformed officers, the perpetrators know when they can get by with jaywalking and when they can't, and you have expend a greater amount of manpower to achieve a real reduction in jaywalking.

Cameras won't work with jaywalkers the way they do with red-light running, since pedestrians don't have license plates, or name badges. Most people will assume that their identity won't be known by the police, especially in a place with a large transient population such as Hononlulu's.

[Giant Communist Robot]

Shapley wrote:

and ensure that the word is out, you don't really have to deploy them to reduce the incidence of jaywalking.

Your faith in the authorities is touching.

[piqaboo]

Shapley wrote:

and ensure that the word is out, you don't really have to deploy them to reduce the incidence of jaywalking.

Your faith in the authorities is touching.

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