Now hold on here.... You can't just put it all on the car drivers. I'm sure there are some drivers who don't pay attention and hit someone. I'm also sure there are plenty of people who don't pay attention and step out into traffic and get hit by a car.
This is one of those cases that looks bad all the way around. Okay they want to crack down on jaywalking to prevent needless mayhem. But why not have a shit load of people out there so it's impossible for anyone to jaywalk? Pass out flyers, talk to people, give free water or something. Involve the community. A handful of cops stopping people accomplishes what? Nothing. This girl probably did jaywalk, jogging with earphones in, not paying attention to anything. She should have been stopped. But it should have been handled in a different way. And from what I read she was arrested for failing to identify herself. From what I understand in Texas if you are legally detained/arrested, and writing a jaywalking citation would be legally detained, you have to provide your correct name and address when asked for it. She didn't do this and that's what she was arrested for. And the idiot police chief said he wanted to charge her with resisting arrest. Police take the whole resisting arrest to far IMHO. So she wasn't arrested for not carrying an ID. She was arrested because she refused to identify herself so they could write her a ticket. Still stupid of them to try and solve this jaywalking problem the way they went about it.
Pedestrian or cyclist "breaks the law" = they could die. Driver "breaks the law" = someone else could die.
