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 all seriousness, what is the point of issuing a ticket for a vehicle with a fake tag? The ticket won't even be associated with the vehicle and will never ever be paid. The only ways out of this mess are for states to stop issuing temp tags and/or for vehicles with fake tags to be impounded (which requires tow trucks and will probably result in a handful of shootings in the process).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 all seriousness, what is the point of issuing a ticket for a vehicle with a fake tag? The ticket won't even be associated with the vehicle and will never ever be paid. The only ways out of this mess are for states to stop issuing temp tags and/or for vehicles with fake tags to be impounded (which requires tow trucks and will probably result in a handful of shootings in the process).

This is what boots are for. After 2 tickets, boot ‘em, Danno.

[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.

This is absolutely true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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 all seriousness, what is the point of issuing a ticket for a vehicle with a fake tag? The ticket won't even be associated with the vehicle and will never ever be paid. The only ways out of this mess are for states to stop issuing temp tags and/or for vehicles with fake tags to be impounded (which requires tow trucks and will probably result in a handful of shootings in the process).

This is what boots are for. After 2 tickets, boot ‘em, Danno.

The boots are trivial to remove.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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 all seriousness, what is the point of issuing a ticket for a vehicle with a fake tag? The ticket won't even be associated with the vehicle and will never ever be paid. The only ways out of this mess are for states to stop issuing temp tags and/or for vehicles with fake tags to be impounded (which requires tow trucks and will probably result in a handful of shootings in the process).

This is what boots are for. After 2 tickets, boot ‘em, Danno.

The boots are trivial to remove.

DC used to tack on administrative and other fees to the parking violations. Is that not considered "equitable" anymore (except in bad Ward 3)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost every crime report I read talks about the getaway car having paper tags. I see fake paper tags all over the city. Why is the city not pulling these cars over? Worst case, you ticket someone for illegally avoiding speed/red light cameras. More likely, you find stolen cars and people up to no good. Seems like low hanging fruit.

The enforcement would be inequitable. The mayor has a task force to prevent that.

https://dmoi.dc.gov/atetaskforce

I don’t see anything about paper tags at that link. [/quote]

Don't pretend to be stupid. YOu know exactly what they are saying and they are correct.

[Anonymous]

It is nearly 2024. I have zero issues with paper tags. However, the paper tags should be registered and traceable to the car owner and then put in a temporary tag database that is available to law enforcement through the DMV. And then every time a police officer sees a paper tag their LPR should run it. If it is valid, no issues. If it is not valid, the car is pulled over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is nearly 2024. I have zero issues with paper tags. However, the paper tags should be registered and traceable to the car owner and then put in a temporary tag database that is available to law enforcement through the DMV. And then every time a police officer sees a paper tag their LPR should run it. If it is valid, no issues. If it is not valid, the car is pulled over.

Would be easy to do. As you know, it is the official city policy to do the opposite.

[Anonymous]

This entire issue is a DC made up issue.

DMV's in ANY other state issue temporary tags. DC DMV has chosen not to. If DC was run like ANY other state, you would buy your car and then the DC DMV would issue you a 90 day tag or whatever length they thought it would take for permanent registration to be completed.

However, DC has chosen not to do this and simply relies on other states to run its temporary registration process outside of the very unique DC 5 day temporary registration sticker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Almost every crime report I read talks about the getaway car having paper tags. I see fake paper tags all over the city. Why is the city not pulling these cars over? Worst case, you ticket someone for illegally avoiding speed/red light cameras. More likely, you find stolen cars and people up to no good. Seems like low hanging fruit.

DC can control DC things. Why doesn't Maryland crack down on Maryland paper tags?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This entire issue is a DC made up issue.

DMV's in ANY other state issue temporary tags. DC DMV has chosen not to. If DC was run like ANY other state, you would buy your car and then the DC DMV would issue you a 90 day tag or whatever length they thought it would take for permanent registration to be completed.

However, DC has chosen not to do this and simply relies on other states to run its temporary registration process outside of the very unique DC 5 day temporary registration sticker.

There are no dealerships in DC to issue temporary tags.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost every crime report I read talks about the getaway car having paper tags. I see fake paper tags all over the city. Why is the city not pulling these cars over? Worst case, you ticket someone for illegally avoiding speed/red light cameras. More likely, you find stolen cars and people up to no good. Seems like low hanging fruit.

DC can control DC things. Why doesn't Maryland crack down on Maryland paper tags?

Are you people really so dumb that you don't realize people are printing their own tags attached to nothing.

The city does not care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost every crime report I read talks about the getaway car having paper tags. I see fake paper tags all over the city. Why is the city not pulling these cars over? Worst case, you ticket someone for illegally avoiding speed/red light cameras. More likely, you find stolen cars and people up to no good. Seems like low hanging fruit.

DC can control DC things. Why doesn't Maryland crack down on Maryland paper tags?

Are you people really so dumb that you don't realize people are printing their own tags attached to nothing.

The city does not care.

So...there is a paper tag on a parked car. Issuing a ticket does nothing, because the tag isn't traceable.

Then what?

I get it for a moving violation. How often does that happen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not people being dumb and joking around when they say Equity. That was the actual reason the police were instructed to stand down.

That’s correct.

DC and many other cities ordered police to stand-down, stop all vehicle pursuits, etc. as part of a much larger push for equity.

Prosecutors stopped prosecuting in the name of racial equity.

DC raised the age for “youthful offenders” from 18 to 26. And why? Equity.

The DC council attempted to pass a “criminal justice reform” bill so radical, that not even Joe Biden himself would step in it to back the bill. But the council claimed their bill would “further the cause of equity.”

Your own company or government agency pays an “equity officer” or someone with a title such as “diversity, equity, and inclusion” to Lucy these same ideas at your workplace.

Universities indoctrinate students in DEI.

Hasn’t this all gone way too far?

[Anonymous]

DC has decidedly become pro-crime and pro-vagrancy, except for evil Ward 3, where we must be hyper vigilant about enforcing even the most minute infraction.