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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From the website above:
The total of all your citations and fees is: $17280.00

Why the hell was this car not booted?![/quote]
do you know how many people DC has on staff to boot vehicles? [/quote]

I don't understand how DC doesn't add a few more boot / impound crews already.  
[b]That, or pay a bounty to tow operators who see them and bring them to an impound lot.[/b]
The money they could recover would more than pay for it and provide a good amount of revenue for additional traffic, safety improvements and other city projects and programs.[/quote]

DC used to do exactly that decades ago until the city was overwhelmed with reports of predatory, illegal towing and had to put a stop to it. It's not the answer. [/quote]

I seem to recall there were also serious reforms made to the DC towing industry after the big outcry.

And again, the parameters of my proposal are, if they see a vehicle with multiple existing unpaid tickets, they can tow it to a city-owned impound lot, in exchange for either a flat fee or some percentage of the outstanding amount.

That limits their "predatory" behavior to existing traffic offenders (boo hoo, too bad, pay your damn tickets!) and takes them out of the equation, once the vehicle has been towed.  And if it's low-income people, the city could have an appeals process where they waive some or all of the outstanding tickets based on qualified documentation (tax filing) but also warn them that they won't continue waiving them.[/quote]

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