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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Because street parking doesn’t start off by taking a ticket or passing through a turnstile.  One can accidentally fail to pay for parking on the street by misreading a meter or losing track of time.  One cannot accidentally jump a turnstile to evade fare.

I don’t think any parking violations should be considered criminal activity.   Do I think jumping a turnstile and evading metro fare should be considered criminal?  Yes.

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Shorter PP: violations committed by teenagers are crimes but violations committed by me are not. Are you seriously suggesting that people don't routinely purposely violate parking regulations? 
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But there is a way to hold parking violators accountable.  [b]It’s called fines that double if unpaid, then a boot and then no registration renewal.[/b]  What is the plan for actual enforcement and collection of tickets for Metro fare evasion?[/quote]

So, this is TERRIBLE social policy, because the difference between a person who walks away from that parking ticket with a minor inconvenience, and one that ends up with their car seized, is whether they have the money to pay their ticket in the first place. So you are effectively leveraging a much heavier weight on a poor person for the same crime, and therefore helping to keep them in poverty.

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As JFK famously observed, life is unfair.  If those on more limited incomes want to avoid the problems that come with not paying parking tickets, then they should be extra careful to park legally.   [/quote]

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