AND LIVING IN FLORIDA

Police in Bradenton, Florida, are coming under pressure over their penchant for stopping walkers at night in one part of the city for not using sidewalks and for walking on the wrong side of the road,

The police support their stance by saying that:

"A review of 30 recent pedestrian cases in which the person was walking on the wrong side of the road shows more than half of the walkers were black or Latino men walking between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. in Ward 5, which includes the 14th Street West corridor and side streets that often do not have sidewalks."

As an example, let me quote the case of Bradenton teenager, Justin Claudio. Claudio was cited this month for not walking on the left side of the road, facing oncoming traffic, on a block where there are no sidewalks. A week later, Claudio was stopped again in the 2000 block of 13th Street West.

Claudio was arrested on charges of obstruction and culpable negligence - for exposing officers to injury

Interestingly, it is not clear what time of day the study quoted was undertaken, nor how the cohort was stratified.

I've had a brilliant idea! How about installing sidewalks?

TBO