{"id":291393174,"date":"2014-03-27T14:32:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T14:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=291393174"},"modified":"2014-03-27T14:32:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T14:32:54","slug":"no-crime-no-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=291393174","title":{"rendered":"No Crime, No Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do dangerous drivers receive more protection from the law than their victims do?<br \/>\nBy Bob Mionske, Bicycling<br \/>\nWhen a dangerous driver injures somebody, or takes another person\u2019s life, we pretend that it\u2019s somehow normal. We\u2019re all so aware of our own driving mistakes that we do everything we can to avoid holding other drivers\u2014even dangerous drivers\u2014accountable when somebody dies. We call it \u201can accident.\u201d We blame the victim. We worry about how the driver must have suffered. Our system of traffic justice is so broken that, for the victims of dangerous drivers, there is often no justice at all.<br \/>\nInstead, our legal system shields dangerous drivers from any real consequences. With the exception of DUI, motorists can get away with just about anything. Consider a few recent examples.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: Things he points out make my blood boil.]<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bicycling.com\/blogs\/roadrights\/2014\/03\/26\/no-crime-no-punishment\/\">https:\/\/blogs.bicycling.com\/blogs\/roadrights\/2014\/03\/26\/no-crime-no-punishment\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do dangerous drivers receive more protection from the law than their victims do? By Bob Mionske, Bicycling When a dangerous driver injures somebody, or takes another person\u2019s life, we pretend that it\u2019s somehow normal. We\u2019re all so aware of our own driving mistakes that we do everything we can to avoid holding other drivers\u2014even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=291393174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No Crime, No Punishment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291393174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291393174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291393174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291393174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291393174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291393174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291393174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}