Unpaid Tickets from Non-DC Drivers

[Anonymous]

Do you guys also go through court records in search of people who've been arrested 40 times? And then worry that maybe you'll be their next victim? Like, maybe tomorrow they'll show up at your house and rob you?

[Anonymous]

11:00 poster again - these driver usually have unpaid tickets in their home jurisdiction too, so it’s not just bad driving in DC. They’re a menace everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:11:00 poster again - these driver usually have unpaid tickets in their home jurisdiction too, so it’s not just bad driving in DC. They’re a menace everywhere.

"Menace." Time to touch grass, baby. It's a beautiful day. You can fret about some random dude from Bowie another day.

[Anonymous]

OP's post is inaccurate -- it's three tickets totaling $760:

One for 11-15 over the speed limit
One for 16-20 over the speed limit
One stop sign violation

Even if there was an effort to impound vehicles or take away licenses, this person would never be a priority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you guys also go through court records in search of people who've been arrested 40 times? And then worry that maybe you'll be their next victim? Like, maybe tomorrow they'll show up at your house and rob you?

What if it's the same person? What if the guy who got a million traffic camera tickets has also been repeatedly arrested for violent offenses? Maybe that person is going to drive dangerously to your house, crash into your living room and then rob you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP's post is inaccurate -- it's three tickets totaling $760:

One for 11-15 over the speed limit
One for 16-20 over the speed limit
One stop sign violation

Even if there was an effort to impound vehicles or take away licenses, this person would never be a priority.

It's not inaccurate. She said it's nearly a thousand dollars of tickets related to moving violations. $760 is nearly a thousand dollars and those are all moving violations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello Karens!

You know the vast majority of out of state drivers pay their tickets, right? We have oodles of data on who gets tickets and who pays them. You can obsess about some random guy, but you should recognize that you're obsessing about a statistical outlier.

41 percent of tickets go to Maryland drivers, and 38 percent of tickets paid are paid by Marylanders. Virginians are worse. They get 27 percent of the tickets and pay 18 percent of the traffic fines.

The people who pay the least are the ones from outside the DMV, i.e. tourists.

We're not talking about people who pay their tickets. The people who are issued tickets and pay them are responsible citizens.

We are talking about the people who do NOT pay their tickets. Those people tend to not be responsible and thus, are not responsible drivers.

No one is obsessing over some random housewife from Chevy Chase or a "random dude from Bowie" who got caught speeding one time and paid her ticket. We're saying that habitual offenders, who continue to ignore tickets and continue to drive poorly, need to face some kind of consequence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you guys also go through court records in search of people who've been arrested 40 times? And then worry that maybe you'll be their next victim? Like, maybe tomorrow they'll show up at your house and rob you?

I mean, yeah, if someone's been arrested 40 times, I would wonder why they hadn't faced serious consequences yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP's post is inaccurate -- it's three tickets totaling $760:

One for 11-15 over the speed limit
One for 16-20 over the speed limit
One stop sign violation

Even if there was an effort to impound vehicles or take away licenses, this person would never be a priority.

It's not inaccurate. She said it's nearly a thousand dollars of tickets related to moving violations. $760 is nearly a thousand dollars and those are all moving violations.

I agree with this poster. The tickets themselves were probably less than 150 each. There’s a total of 3.
The rest are fines for non payment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:11:00 poster again - these driver usually have unpaid tickets in their home jurisdiction too, so it’s not just bad driving in DC. They’re a menace everywhere.

"Menace." Time to touch grass, baby. It's a beautiful day. You can fret about some random dude from Bowie another day.

??? I’m the one who hears these stories working at a legal clinic. I’m not looking up driver records in my spare time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you guys also go through court records in search of people who've been arrested 40 times? And then worry that maybe you'll be their next victim? Like, maybe tomorrow they'll show up at your house and rob you?

I mean, yeah, if someone's been arrested 40 times, I would wonder why they hadn't faced serious consequences yet.

Are you serious? Do you even live in DC? They don't prosecute anyone for anything. The *average* murder suspect has previously been arrested 11 times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP's post is inaccurate -- it's three tickets totaling $760:

One for 11-15 over the speed limit
One for 16-20 over the speed limit
One stop sign violation

Even if there was an effort to impound vehicles or take away licenses, this person would never be a priority.

It's not inaccurate. She said it's nearly a thousand dollars of tickets related to moving violations. $760 is nearly a thousand dollars and those are all moving violations.

I agree with this poster. The tickets themselves were probably less than 150 each. There’s a total of 3.
The rest are fines for non payment.

Per the reddit poster who found them and posted a pic, they are:

11/29/2025 - Speeding 11-15 Over Limit - $200

10/25/2025 - Running Stop Sign - $200

07/24/2025 - Speeding 16-20 Over Limit - $360

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you guys also go through court records in search of people who've been arrested 40 times? And then worry that maybe you'll be their next victim? Like, maybe tomorrow they'll show up at your house and rob you?

I mean, yeah, if someone's been arrested 40 times, I would wonder why they hadn't faced serious consequences yet.

Are you serious? Do you even live in DC? They don't prosecute anyone for anything. The *average* murder suspect has previously been arrested 11 times.

Yes, I am serious. I do live in DC and I have a problem with how we handle crime in this city, as do many people. Step out of your bubble and talk to people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello Karens!

You know the vast majority of out of state drivers pay their tickets, right? We have oodles of data on who gets tickets and who pays them. You can obsess about some random guy, but you should recognize that you're obsessing about a statistical outlier.

41 percent of tickets go to Maryland drivers, and 38 percent of tickets paid are paid by Marylanders. Virginians are worse. They get 27 percent of the tickets and pay 18 percent of the traffic fines.

The people who pay the least are the ones from outside the DMV, i.e. tourists.

We're not talking about people who pay their tickets. The people who are issued tickets and pay them are responsible citizens.

We are talking about the people who do NOT pay their tickets. Those people tend to not be responsible and thus, are not responsible drivers.

No one is obsessing over some random housewife from Chevy Chase or a "random dude from Bowie" who got caught speeding one time and paid her ticket. We're saying that habitual offenders, who continue to ignore tickets and continue to drive poorly, need to face some kind of consequence.

The number of people who don't pay their tickets is very small, and there can be a whole constellation of reasons why they haven't paid that have nothing to do with how they happen to drive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you guys also go through court records in search of people who've been arrested 40 times? And then worry that maybe you'll be their next victim? Like, maybe tomorrow they'll show up at your house and rob you?

I mean, yeah, if someone's been arrested 40 times, I would wonder why they hadn't faced serious consequences yet.

Are you serious? Do you even live in DC? They don't prosecute anyone for anything. The *average* murder suspect has previously been arrested 11 times.

Yes, I am serious. I do live in DC and I have a problem with how we handle crime in this city, as do many people. Step out of your bubble and talk to people.

And yet you will surely vote for Janeese for mayor. They don't make 'em any softer on crime than JLG.