'A direct attack on Black folks': Duval residents weigh in on consequences of noise law

Florida Times-Union ^

[TigerClaws]

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has made it clear on social media that the department is planning to enforce a revised law in Florida that was ruled unconstitutional in its previous form in 2012.

Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Facebook warning. © Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Facebook warning. "What does this mean? It means that you will have to listen to your car radio at a volume that is NOT plainly audible at a distance of 25 feet or more," the Sheriff's Office said on social media last week, adding that Statute 316.3045 will "once again become enforceable."

But some Duval residents are concerned about how the revised law, which went into effect July 1, could impact people of color, low-income residents and civil rights as a whole.

Ben Frazier, president of Jacksonville's Northside Coalition, a local social justice advocacy group, says officers could unequally enforce the law and concentrate primarily on certain areas in town where there are more Black residents.

Immediately it came to my mind that there was a definitive racial overtone to this new law," Frazier said. "That flavor is unmistakable and cannot be denied. My immediate reaction was, 'Wow, the white power structure strikes again.'"

Frazier wonders whether deputies will enforce the new law, which brings a noncriminal ticket, as equally on rap music as on country music and is concerned the law will be used to stop people and then arrest them on other crimes.

[AppyPappy]

I’d rather they did something about loud exhausts. Every man here has a loud truck

[Spok]

Decibels are racist!

[mylife]

plenty of obnoxious whites out there too

[pierrem15]

And why do black people seem to think that everyone else has to tolerate their stupid anti-social behavior?

[gundog]

The music is often the same.

[Pollard]

One of many things I don’t miss about FL. Most places. There was one town near me that had a noise ordinance but most places didn’t.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

plenty of obnoxious whites out there too.....

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Yeah, they imitate the ghetto subculture and think they bein’ cool.

I can’t post what they got called on Long Island when I was TDY there in the ‘90s.

[cableguymn]

noise is noise isn’t it?

[robowombat]

Because, they be owed.

[DoughtyOne]

ID to vote

Math

Fair elections, following the laws

Crimes against burning down cities

Laws designed to prevent Black on Black shootings

Just more racial laws directed at Blacks...

Snooze alert...

[heavy metal]

not necessarily... 😁

[GeorgiaDawg32]

My truck is loud, but it’s a 6.0L V8 turbo-diesel. I can’t make it any quieter..

[Fido969]

Immediately it came to my mind that there was a definitive racial overtone to this new law," Frazier said.

Simple solution. Park outside the guy's house with your thunderbox car radio playing at full volume.

He'll stop making this complaint in a hurry.

[G Larry]

If noise law enforcement "is a direct attack on Black folks", aren't they admitting THEY are too loud?

Oh, I see, they are really saying, "We're entitled" and "you're racist for complaining"......

[seowulf]

What’s racist is that they won’t sell stereos with volume buttons to black people.

[blackdog]

I have a neighbor with all his money spent on his gazillion watt bass amplifier and speakers in his infinity with lighted spinner rims. All hours of the night and day he plays the car boom sound system in the driveway. It rattles the windows in houses 300 feet away. I asked him why he doesn't play his music inside his home? He looked at me like I was speaking a different language. None of his hood-rat buddies knows what a doorbell is? They roll in with their boom cars blasting and lay on the horn until he comes out.

We overheard him yelling about having to be in jail for a while last week, so we've had a few quiet days.

I wholly endorse these ordinances. It's a nightmare.

[NorthMountain]

says officers could unequally enforce the law and concentrate primarily on certain areas in town where there are more Black residents. offenders.

Gee ... Quit being jerks, people!

[bankwalker]

that’s why God created headphones ...