[alecst]

They are giving court dates to (regular) cyclists, they are harsher on bikes than cars, and they are stopping cyclists at a higher rate than they stop drivers of cars.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/18/exclusive-cops-writin...

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/policy-change-nypd-wi...

If the police don't care about the difference, why do you?

[addicted]

No, the question is are bicyclists killing and injuring pedestrians disproportionately than cars.

And the answer is no.

Every time a bike lane is installed on a street/avenue the safety rate for pedestrians increases dramatically.

[const_cast]

> If the police don't care about the difference, why do you?

Because the police are more often wrong than they are right. We shouldn't be modeling our laws over what's most convenient for police, that's just asking for abuse.

[tstrimple]

The police also didn't care to intervene in Uvalde. Should we not care as a result? I don't even know what this line of argument is. Some weird appeal to authority?