“Helmets keep people safe and prevent traumatic brain injury — this is indeed scientifically beyond dispute,” said King County Councimember Girmay Zahilay, who is also a member of the Board of Health, “That is not the question before us. The question is whether a helmet law that is enforced by police, on balance, produces [positive] results that outweigh the harms the law creates.”
King County Councilmember Joe McDermott, who also serves on the Board of Health, said in an interview with Crosscut that the board’s conversations about repealing the law began after a December 2020 Crosscut investigation of helmet citations. The analysis found that at least 43% of the people who received
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