Why does the city refuse to crack down on Maryland paper tags?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in an exurb. Over the past month or so county law enforcement has been out and about a couple times a week ticketing vehicles with missing tags, having expired tags, displaying fake paper tags, or tags that are for a different vehicle than what they are displayed on.
They are hitting shopping centers and residential areas.

In DC enforcement just targets certain WOTP neighborhoods and only cars with (legitimate) DC plates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in an exurb. Over the past month or so county law enforcement has been out and about a couple times a week ticketing vehicles with missing tags, having expired tags, displaying fake paper tags, or tags that are for a different vehicle than what they are displayed on.
They are hitting shopping centers and residential areas.

I hope you move out of that racist area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just walked two blocks downtown. I counted SIX paper tags. In TWO BLOCKS.

Nowhere else in the country would put up with this bullsh*t. You would be pulled over and ticketed and your car would be impounded.

How do you know those tags were all bogus? Six new cars in two blocks downtown doesn't seem completely inconceivable.

Because 4/6 were POS or had illegal tint and one looked like they didn’t even try when printing the thing.

[Anonymous]

That US Park Police officer should get a medal for exemplary performance in the line of duty. I doubt that MPD would have bothered to bother with these street entrepreneurs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The answer is probably one of two reasons:

-the tags aren’t fake—you can buy temporary tags from dealerships that are basically just fronts for temp tag sales (see: Texas)

-the tages are fake but you can’t tell—the info isn’t entered into a database so unless you run the VIN you can’t tell the tag isn’t legit. I’d be pretty annoyed if I kept getting pulled over for a VIN check because I have temporary dealer tags. A temp tag isn’t probably cause anyway.

Gov. Abbott outlawed paper license tags. They will be replaced with metal ones by 2025.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/gov-abbott-signs-law-eliminating-paper-license-plates-in-texas/3275850/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The answer is probably one of two reasons:

-the tags aren’t fake—you can buy temporary tags from dealerships that are basically just fronts for temp tag sales (see: Texas)

-the tages are fake but you can’t tell—the info isn’t entered into a database so unless you run the VIN you can’t tell the tag isn’t legit. I’d be pretty annoyed if I kept getting pulled over for a VIN check because I have temporary dealer tags. A temp tag isn’t probably cause anyway.

Gov. Abbott outlawed paper license tags. They will be replaced with metal ones by 2025.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/gov-abbott-signs-law-eliminating-paper-license-plates-in-texas/3275850/

This is what we need Maryland to do.

But in the meantime, PULL PEOPLE OVER FOR BULLSH*T TAGS. Some of them are so demonstrably fake. I guarantee you would recover guns, catch people with warrants, etc. Seems like an easy way to cut down on crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The answer is probably one of two reasons:

-the tags aren’t fake—you can buy temporary tags from dealerships that are basically just fronts for temp tag sales (see: Texas)

-the tages are fake but you can’t tell—the info isn’t entered into a database so unless you run the VIN you can’t tell the tag isn’t legit. I’d be pretty annoyed if I kept getting pulled over for a VIN check because I have temporary dealer tags. A temp tag isn’t probably cause anyway.

Gov. Abbott outlawed paper license tags. They will be replaced with metal ones by 2025.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/gov-abbott-signs-law-eliminating-paper-license-plates-in-texas/3275850/

This is what we need Maryland to do.

But in the meantime, PULL PEOPLE OVER FOR BULLSH*T TAGS. Some of them are so demonstrably fake. I guarantee you would recover guns, catch people with warrants, etc. Seems like an easy way to cut down on crime.

Why do you think DMV police blatantly ignore the fake tags they see everyday?

Really think hard about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The answer is probably one of two reasons:

-the tags aren’t fake—you can buy temporary tags from dealerships that are basically just fronts for temp tag sales (see: Texas)

-the tages are fake but you can’t tell—the info isn’t entered into a database so unless you run the VIN you can’t tell the tag isn’t legit. I’d be pretty annoyed if I kept getting pulled over for a VIN check because I have temporary dealer tags. A temp tag isn’t probably cause anyway.

Gov. Abbott outlawed paper license tags. They will be replaced with metal ones by 2025.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/gov-abbott-signs-law-eliminating-paper-license-plates-in-texas/3275850/

This is what we need Maryland to do.

But in the meantime, PULL PEOPLE OVER FOR BULLSH*T TAGS. Some of them are so demonstrably fake. I guarantee you would recover guns, catch people with warrants, etc. Seems like an easy way to cut down on crime.

Why do you think DMV police blatantly ignore the fake tags they see everyday?

Really think hard about this.

Enlighten us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The answer is probably one of two reasons:

-the tags aren’t fake—you can buy temporary tags from dealerships that are basically just fronts for temp tag sales (see: Texas)

-the tages are fake but you can’t tell—the info isn’t entered into a database so unless you run the VIN you can’t tell the tag isn’t legit. I’d be pretty annoyed if I kept getting pulled over for a VIN check because I have temporary dealer tags. A temp tag isn’t probably cause anyway.

Gov. Abbott outlawed paper license tags. They will be replaced with metal ones by 2025.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/gov-abbott-signs-law-eliminating-paper-license-plates-in-texas/3275850/

This is what we need Maryland to do.

But in the meantime, PULL PEOPLE OVER FOR BULLSH*T TAGS. Some of them are so demonstrably fake. I guarantee you would recover guns, catch people with warrants, etc. Seems like an easy way to cut down on crime.

Why do you think DMV police blatantly ignore the fake tags they see everyday?

Really think hard about this.

Enlighten us.

I'm curious about this too.

[Anonymous]

Back in the day… old black dc… they did spot checks. Police would stop at a place and make every car pull over and they’d check for whatever. If you were on the street you’d get pulled over. No excuses.

[Anonymous]

Another armed robbery in DC by a car with fake paper tags.

I have fake paper tags to speed through cameras, but this is what you’re really enabling.

[Anonymous]

Is there corruption involved in the illicit supply of paper tags?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If someone with paper tags hits me and I have no way to identify them, then what?

Your insurance covers things.

Always amazing the stupidity of some who post here.

Sure, but doesn't that raise my premium?

That’s a likely consequence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just walked two blocks downtown. I counted SIX paper tags. In TWO BLOCKS.

Nowhere else in the country would put up with this bullsh*t. You would be pulled over and ticketed and your car would be impounded.

Why isn’t this a priority for the DC government?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The answer is probably one of two reasons:

-the tags aren’t fake—you can buy temporary tags from dealerships that are basically just fronts for temp tag sales (see: Texas)

-the tages are fake but you can’t tell—the info isn’t entered into a database so unless you run the VIN you can’t tell the tag isn’t legit. I’d be pretty annoyed if I kept getting pulled over for a VIN check because I have temporary dealer tags. A temp tag isn’t probably cause anyway.

Gov. Abbott outlawed paper license tags. They will be replaced with metal ones by 2025.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/gov-abbott-signs-law-eliminating-paper-license-plates-in-texas/3275850/

DC has had no paper tags for many years now. MD and VA are free to do the same.