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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't need a driver's license to drive. They aren't going to lock someone up in Fairfax County, Arlington, or Alexandria for unpaid tickets. [/quote]
I don't expect them to lock people up. Start with suspending licenses and since you're right, these people will continue to drive with a suspended license, move on to booting or impounding the cars. [/quote]

+1, I'd love to see this. Real consequences that are at least *inconvenient* for these drivers in a way that might lead them to change their behavior.

One question I always have about the MD and VA drivers who have these long lists of unpaid DC tickets is: do they drive like this in their home state? If they do, they may already be driving without a license. But it happens often enough that I wonder if these drivers sometimes see DC as a place they can flout the law with impunity because... they can. This driver only had 3-4 unpaid tickets but we've seen drivers with 20 or more before. To what extent are they adjusting their behavior when they cross the line into the district knowing that the city won't/can't do anything to them?[/quote]

Other jurisdictions don’t do automated enforcement like DC. They drive like maniacs everywhere. They only get caught in DC.[/quote]

And yet it does nothing since there is no actual enforcement of out of state drivers, so it's pointless.[/quote]

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