There is a common myth that "cities are dangerous" while suburbanites don't even let their kids ride bikes in their own neighborhoods bc they're so dangerous bc of cars and everyone knows it.
Cities are safer than suburbs and they are lying to you about it.
Parents not letting kids ride bikes is bad enough, but this isn't entirely a problem of individual parental choices. Even when parents do want to give their kids the kind of freedom that was absolutely routine 50 years ago the cops will prevent it.
E.g. parents who let their kids walk less than a mile unsupervised or let a teenager babysit younger kids are subject to arrest and ongoing harassment.
https://reason.com/2022/02/08/melissa-henderson-babysit-covid-arrest-blairsville/
https://law.justia.com/cases/georgia/supreme-court/1997/s97a0300-1.html
My thoughts on the Brittany Patterson case, which I was the first to report. (I’ve been having trouble with my FRK blog distribution lately. Sorry for the delay in getting you this!) Brittany Patterson had to take one of her four children to a medical appointment, and her youngest son, 10-year-old Soren, was going to
@AdrianRiskin Oh 💯! I don't blame individual parents at all - biking in car-centric suburbs is wildly dangerous!
I blame the media and the right wingers/moderates that gleefully spread the lie that cities are dangerous and it's safer to live in car sprawl suburbs. Car sprawl is anti-social and atomizing and therefore it benefits the Right and the powerful to have more Americans living in it. 🚩
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