@majorrich Ha, that happened to me in Baltimore. Me, my mom, my grandmother, and my sister were dressed up for a dinner party on the Johns Hopkins campus. My mom was driving and my grandmother had the map, and they made a uniquely horrible team. My mom kept taking the wrong turns, and my grandmother was the worst navigator. She’d do stuff like shriek, “You were supposed to turn!” “Where?” “BACK THERE!” We got there, but… yeesh. Most of DC is actually pretty safe now. It’s turning into a great big starbucks-froyo-microbrewed-yoga studio.
@UScitizen The police are well within their rights to stop you if you’re running several red lights. Nobody is a perfect driver; it’s impossible to go your whole life without getting stopped. It sounds more like every time you are stopped by a black officer, you cry racism and refuse to think that you may have done something wrong. You seem to have a major chip on your shoulder about this, which doesn’t make any sense. White people make up about 70–80% of the American population. If we assume that the proportions of police officers reflect the general population, you have a way bigger chance of running across a white officer than a black officer. Likewise, if a black officer wanted to discriminate against white people by writing them tickets, he or she would be looking at having to stop 7 out of 10 drivers that went by… they would have to stop almost every driver out there. It’s a lot more likely that you’re scared / angry when you have to drive in a neighborhood where there are a lot of minorities, so you drive like shit when you’re there. Like running several red lights to get out of a neighborhood.