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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps. [/quote]

I think a lot of it ties back to the loosening of regulations on vehicles -  no longer requiring fines to be paid to get a license or register your car, allowing people to drive around in cars with phony paper tags, MPD no longer pulling people over for vehicle infractions, etc.

So much of the crime I've read about in the last 12 months involves the use of handguns + vehicles.

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I agree with this also. There are cameras everywhere in this city but paper tags render a car invisible to them. Criminals know that they are mostly invincible against any law abiding citizen. Most people are stuck hoping the inevitable carjacking or worse happens to someone else, because it will happen.[/quote]

Cameras should be able to read paper tags as well.  If not they need to have a serious talk with their contractors and vendors.[/quote]

Yes they can read them. But they are fake tags that have no tie to the vehicle.

How can you not know this? What point were you trying to make with your comment?[/quote]

Camera will also give police the make, model and color of the car and if for example [b]that car passes the same camera within 15 minutes every weekday as part of their commute,[/b] just set up with a cruiser to nail them the very next time they pass by.  If it's a car with a whole bunch of outstanding tickets, it's well worth while.  And if nothing else, if they start doing that in a very public way it will make every other person with a fake tag very nervous.[/quote]

It is super cute that you think 14 year old stick-up kids are using these fake tags and cars for their daily commute. [/quote]

It's super cute that you think fake tags are only used by 14 year old stick-up kids in DC.  Cars with fake tags parking on DC streets are starting to be targeted for boots and towing.  But a lot of them are not from inside DC and there are in fact people using them on their daily commute.[/quote]

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