Introduction

Road safety is an important issue whose public health impact is further intensified by mediators of systemic racism, including biased policing. The historical precedents of Walter Scott and numerous other Black persons who have suffered violence at the hands of South Carolina (SC) police provide added impetus for explicit discussions of mechanisms to mitigate racially/ethnically biased policing in any new road safety measures. Unfortunately, these important considerations do not appear evident in H3011, a new SC enforcement bill predicated on increasing road safety by proposing stricter penalties for slow left lane drivers.

Conclusions

Regardless of the ultimate fate of H3011, the bill reflects a pattern of road safety enforcement legislation that seemingly fails to place racial/ethnic equity considerations at its forefront. If we, as public health researchers, truly believe that police violence is a public health crisis, we must advocate for our lawmakers to actively do more to address this issue.

中文翻译：

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谁的道路安全？

介绍

道路安全是一个重要问题，其系统的种族主义调解者，包括有偏见的警务，会进一步加剧其对公共卫生的影响。沃尔特·斯科特（Walter Scott）和其他许多在南卡罗来纳州（SC）警察手中遭受暴力的黑人的历史先例，为在任何新的道路安全措施中减轻种族/种族偏见的警务的机制的明确讨论提供了更多的动力。不幸的是，这些重要的考虑因素在H3011中似乎并不明显。H3011是一项新的SC执法法案，旨在通过对慢速左车道驾驶员提出更严厉的处罚来提高道路安全性。

结论

不管H3011的最终命运如何，该法案都反映了一种道路安全执法立法模式，该立法似乎未能将种族/族裔平等考虑放在首位。如果我们作为公共卫生研究人员真正相信警察的暴力行为是一场公共卫生危机，那么我们必须提倡我们的立法者积极采取更多行动来解决这一问题。