Tickets for loud music nearly 3 times
more likely for Black drivers under new
Florida law
Florida Today,
by
Meghan McGlone
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
5/3/2023 10:38:06 AM
Black drivers in Florida are nearly three times more likely to be ticketed by police and sheriff’s deputies under a law that allowed law enforcement to cite drivers for loud music starting last year, according to a new analysis of traffic data and court records.
The analysis showed that Black drivers received almost 37% of the tickets, despite Black people making up only about 16% of Florida's driving-eligible population.
Law enforcement cited Black drivers at a rate of just over 11 tickets per 100,000 Black drivers, and cited white drivers at a rate of 3.9 tickets per 100,000 white drivers.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
philsner 5/3/2023 10:41:50 AM (No. 1461788)
Of course these "analyses" are based on percentage of population, not on how many are committing the infraction.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mustng66 5/3/2023 10:42:52 AM (No. 1461789)
Maybe because...I don't know, Black people like their music louder? Just spitballing here.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lftrn97 5/3/2023 10:45:27 AM (No. 1461792)
Culture of failure vs culture of success.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
coldborezero 5/3/2023 10:48:04 AM (No. 1461793)
It is a small matter. africans-in-America are, de facto, exempt from our laws. A cop that stops an african-in-America will eventually end up in prison himself for racism.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
downnout 5/3/2023 10:50:00 AM (No. 1461797)
I was recently parked in a grocery pick up area when a black man drove in, parked next to me and cranked up the volume. I was tempted to get out and ask him to turn down the racket but thought better of it. He was rather large…
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/3/2023 10:51:41 AM (No. 1461799)
An option blacks could consider to avoid tickets would be to roll up their windows, and turn the volume down. That option would get them no tickets.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 5/3/2023 10:55:56 AM (No. 1461804)
Clearly a racist move - mayor Pete will be all over that like stink on poop.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 5/3/2023 10:58:49 AM (No. 1461808)
I’m inventing a knob that turned to the left will solve this racist issue immediately. I’m gonna be rich!!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
rockeysroomie 5/3/2023 10:59:05 AM (No. 1461809)
Maybe if they payed some good "Blues" instead of "Rap", tickets wouldn't be so often.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
edgar 5/3/2023 10:59:26 AM (No. 1461810)
Perhaps it is a cultural issue, not an enforcement issue. Maybe a little more analysis is needed to understand what is behind the numbers.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 5/3/2023 11:01:14 AM (No. 1461811)
Good. ALL the cars that pull into the gas station where I sometimes get gas with obnoxious, ultra loud, inner city NOISE blasting from their cars, and who leave a door open so everyone has this crap inflicted on them are drive by blacks. I've been told to do impossible things by threatening black men when I asked them "can you please turn that down?". It turned a bit ugly with one of them, as he challenged me to "yeah, well what yu gonna do?" I managed a "I'm going to leave and then I'll be at peace again, but you'll still be a punk."
Shockingly, and very pleasantly, a young black man with the 'caterpillars' hairdo pulled up next to us at a light with extremely loud music blasting when I was a passenger. He looked over, and I glared, and he stared....not belligerently. I grimmaced and covered my ears. He turned down the music and smiled.
I rolled down the window, said "Thank you very much, sir." and he smiled, and said "You're welcome". It was a great reminder that there are still good, well behaved young black men out there. My friend driving said, "Wow, that's not what I expected. Amazing."
They aren't all bad folks, but there sure are a lot of them.
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Whites are more likely to get skin cancer. What's your point?
The issue is not unfair enforcement. The issue is blacks have a culture where they are more likely to blast loud music from a car.
In fact, I've never seen a white guy drive around with blasting music. I'm sure it happens, but is uncommon.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JimBob 5/3/2023 11:10:42 AM (No. 1461822)
It's Urban Thug Culture in action.
However, Meghan McGlone, the writer of the article is doing her best to follow the Leftist Narrative and make the cops the bad guys and the bLACK perps the Innocent Victims of those Evil Racist Whitey cops.
Well, Meghan, I ain't buyin' what you're sellin'.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Californian 5/3/2023 11:16:07 AM (No. 1461828)
Turn it down.
Duh.
Oh wait no it just be racism.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
raspberry 5/3/2023 11:22:39 AM (No. 1461830)
Thier's is a loud culture. I worked with a large group of very polite blacks, but they tended to be louder in every thing they did.
In the majority black large Eastern city where I live the loud music is always from black's cars.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
snakeoil 5/3/2023 11:23:56 AM (No. 1461831)
This is why I moved out of apartments. When you have subwoofers that can vibrate your entire apartment or car it's time to move. I have been in my car when cars located 100s of feet from me were almost stopping my heart from beating. One of my fantasies is changing all the rap and hip hop to Gregorian Chants.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rama41 5/3/2023 11:27:33 AM (No. 1461836)
Assumes erroneously that all people are equally liable to be miscreants regardless of race, creed, or color. Same rationale that leads to black schoolchildren not being punished for misbehavior.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/3/2023 11:39:23 AM (No. 1461847)
Oh, dem pooooor ol' minorities, will dey sufferin' neva end?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Daisymay 5/3/2023 11:45:09 AM (No. 1461849)
Or....It might be a Genius way of finding Stolen Cars. Pull them over for Loud Music, ask for License and Registration....Hmmm. Might be a problem if the Driver doesn't match the Registration! Call it in and another Stolen car is found!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/3/2023 11:46:33 AM (No. 1461851)
That is not the intent - to cite more blacks - but the outcome based upon evidence.. They are the ones doing it.
At sone point Momma has to teach them to be good citizens.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 5/3/2023 11:54:03 AM (No. 1461857)
"Black motorist are at least three times more likely to PLAY THEIR IGNORANT HIP HOP OOGA-BOOGA AT IDIOTICALLY LOUD VOLUMES!" There, I fixed the headline.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
konocti95 5/3/2023 12:01:56 PM (No. 1461859)
I think this law is a violation of the ADA. The people playing the music loudly are deaf. Of course, the reason they are deaf is because they play their music loudly.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
jayjeti 5/3/2023 12:02:56 PM (No. 1461860)
As many are saying it could be culture, that non-black drivers don't boom their music as much, but police also have to patrol high crime areas more; so, maybe that increases the infractions.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 5/3/2023 12:10:22 PM (No. 1461864)
Too bad they can't give fines for loud mouths, as well.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 5/3/2023 12:12:46 PM (No. 1461868)
LOL The "analysis" was by Univ. of Florida journalism students...
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 5/3/2023 12:17:35 PM (No. 1461870)
It's the racist radio manufacturers who are at fault. They sell only their Extra Loud Volume (ELV) radios to people of color - - and only let whitey buy the ones with a volume control.
Radio makers - - you've been busted!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
faceincrowd 5/3/2023 12:19:47 PM (No. 1461872)
Good! I used to be "live and let live" about loud music. Not so anymore. It is way frocking overboard. Never mind the idiots are going to be deaf before the reach middle age. I got stuck in traffic beside such a car on the interstate and tried to ask the guy to turn it down and it was so loud I couldn't hear my own voice, even screaming.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/3/2023 12:21:37 PM (No. 1461874)
Bottom line - they do it on purpose - to annoy and intimidate others. Prove me wrong.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Talk2 5/3/2023 12:39:53 PM (No. 1461883)
People who turn their cars into BOOM boxes do it to get attention they crave but deny that's the reason.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
valinva 5/3/2023 12:45:13 PM (No. 1461884)
When your "music" consists mostly of drums and bass and screaming obscenities, it is not unusual for it to be played at very high volumes.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/3/2023 12:48:59 PM (No. 1461886)
Another lame veiled attack on DeSantis.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 5/3/2023 1:14:26 PM (No. 1461901)
Before long you and I will be helping them to buy a hearing aid, as part of the social aid package.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/3/2023 1:15:22 PM (No. 1461902)
It's a "culture thang," you, "systemic racism" morons. Blow your ears out with headphones, idiots.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 5/3/2023 1:23:03 PM (No. 1461911)
It's that annoying sub-bass from the moronic rap music that you can hear for blocks.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Lazyman 5/3/2023 1:24:14 PM (No. 1461913)
1 in 3 black males are more likely to go to jail too, is that because of racism? For the people thinking the cops go out of the way to get a black person maybe they should walk down a street in Newark at anytime. Enough is enough of this insanity.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
hershey 5/3/2023 1:43:05 PM (No. 1461929)
Slap da Rap!!!! Ha ha
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 5/3/2023 1:45:21 PM (No. 1461931)
My favorite solution to this is to play my recording of various arias at full volume to give them a taste of their own medicine. "Un Bel Di" and "The Queen of the Night's aria" are particular favorites. You would be shocked at how quickly the music is turned down when these are played at full volume. Other non-opera favorites are The Barney Song and "Hakuna Matata" from the Lion King!! Try it sometime.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/3/2023 1:46:58 PM (No. 1461933)
I remember watching a comedian who came up with a sure-fire way of combatting loud car music.
Tell the driver loud noises cause impotence.
Most of the time people blasting music are being 'macho'.
Last they would do is hurt their 'manhood'.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Birddog 5/3/2023 2:30:12 PM (No. 1461975)
This is another one of those "Blacks impacted harder" stories, very similar to most of the others involving minor drug possession, dealing, gun/weapon possession crimes that ALL have ONE thing in common.
They ALL take place right out on the street, In Public, right where Cops can see them.
Maybe it's true that "White Bois" commit the same crimes at the same rates hence commit more of the crimes, BUT...they do not do so right out in the open,(Though I will bet the tickets for "Loud Exhaust" have more white biker and car/truck drivers getting cited than Black, is that a "Race Thing"?)
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/3/2023 2:50:58 PM (No. 1461986)
They are not ALL black. I have seen a few Mexicans.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
akudaq 5/3/2023 3:34:18 PM (No. 1462022)
#37, I have used Puccini's death scene from Madame Butterfly to great affect. https://youtu.be/WDFlHZbz4-0?t=99
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 5/3/2023 5:32:48 PM (No. 1462110)
I would say that ear doctors have not been taking care of black people like they do white people, so blacks can’t hear as well as whites, therefore they have to turn up the music. Blacks just can’t catch a break in this country.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
padiva 5/3/2023 7:36:57 PM (No. 1462179)
Isn't the Barney song a favorite at Gitmo?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 5/3/2023 9:35:26 PM (No. 1462225)
Yes, and blacks are prone to be arrested five times as much as whites for murder. Perhaps we should remove murder statutes from the books.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 5/3/2023 9:47:30 PM (No. 1462230)
RE #41:
Also Lakme's "Bell Song." 7+ minutes of attitude adjustment!!
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
broken01 5/4/2023 9:22:30 AM (No. 1462462)
Years ago, before the Will Smith slap at the Oscars Chris Rock made a video titled, How Not to Get Your (rhymes with bass) Kicked by the Police. The fourth step on his list was if you're playing loud music "turn that (rhymes with wit) off." He wasn't talking about White people.
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Responding to many complaints, the Governor signed a bill to address loud, often obscene, music emanating from cars. True to form, black drivers are 'targeted' by cops. So, turn it up Crackers. If it can't be heard 2 blocks away, you're not doing your part.