Why focus on parking tickets instead of real crimes?

[Anonymous]

DC authorities really needs to straighten up their priorities.

[Anonymous]

You know it's not the police who issue parking tickets, right OP? ... Right???

[Anonymous]

One creates income, the other creates an expense

[Anonymous]

Revenues

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One creates income, the other creates an expense

+2

And it's easy. All you need is a license plate screen shot. Same with red light cams and speed photo boxes

[Anonymous]

Income one is easy, expense one is hard and can be dangerous

[Anonymous]

Well, it’s not like they enforce non-payment.

[Anonymous]

What they should do, is go after the cars with paper or tinted plates. Those are the seriously sketchy people both on and off the road.

[Anonymous]

Because you can do more than two things at once.

Cracking down on tickets shows you care about law and order. When you enforce punishment against quality of life, despite that they're smaller, it sends the message that don't F around in a certain area. Why have any laws other than punishment for murder?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because you can do more than two things at once.

Doesn't look like DC can so better prioritize.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What they should do, is go after the cars with paper or tinted plates. Those are the seriously sketchy people both on and off the road.

That's profiling.

[Anonymous]

Soft targets, generates income.

It’s a tiny form of anarcho-tyranny. The authorities go after the low hanging fruit and that’s you.

[Anonymous]

Walk + chew gum (simultaneous)

[Anonymous]

One involves shaking down rich white people from MD and VA, with little or no risk, and filling the municipal coffers for perpetual grifting.

The other involves building a competent police force from scratch that willing to risk their safety to go to war against generations of violent criminals. Then be dragged through the mud for brutality and profiling.

Which would you choose?