A Los Angeles prosecutor whose city struggles with record-setting pedestrian deaths blasted California's legalization of jaywalking as 'equity run amok.'
Deputy District Attorney John McKinney speaks to the jury as Judge H. Clay Jacke listens during closing arguments in the Eric Holder, Jr. trial over the death of Nipsey Hussle June 30, 2022, in Los Angeles, California.
McKinney, who called the new jaywalking law"equity run amok," is running to unseat his incumbent boss, District Attorney George Gascon, in the upcoming 2024 election and has been sharply critical of soft-on-crime policies. "Lawmakers justified legalizing jaywalking to reduce law enforcement’s contact with citizens," McKinney said."Supporters of the new law believed it would remove a justification for police to stop and question people in minority communities. The predictable trade-off for reducing traffic enforcement has been more deaths of pedestrians." California state Assembly GOP leader James Gallagher told Fox News Digital that"legalizing jaywalking is a clear example of California Democrats' reckless disregard for public safety. Like so much of their legislation, this bill put Californians in danger in pursuit of a radical agenda to eliminate consequences for breaking the law." Los Angeles Police officials deliver a briefing on pedestrian traffic fatalities Aug. 7, 2023. Through that date, authorities said, the city had seen 26 pedestrian deaths, 19 blamed on"unsafe crossings." When the state's new"Freedom to Walk Act" legalized most instances of jaywalking in the state Jan. 1, Los Angeles had just come off of its deadliest year for pedestrians in two decades, according to LAPD statistics reviewed by Streets Are For Everyone, a local nonprofit.
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