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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no evidence that low income drivers or drivers of color pay more in automatic enforcement fines than any other demographic who drives and the reason there is no evidence of that is that DC doesn't track nor even have a way to track the income of drivers who get camera citations.

The articles cited by several folks at the start of this thread do not provide any evidence about the demographics of who is getting fined.

All we know is from what state the offenders come from and for that the offenders are overwhelming not DC residents and we also know that they own cars and since car ownership rates track pretty closely to income it is a safe inference that most citations are going to people who can afford cars.

It costs nothing to obey the law and in the case of traffic citations isn't particularly difficult.[/quote]

Black drivers pay six times as much in traffic camera fines as white drivers, per the Washington Post. [/quote]

How do they determine that? The ticket is issued to the car not the driver. They sure as hell do not ask for your race when the ticket is issued or when you pay. Are you saying DC government singles out black to ticket while ignoring whites? [/quote]

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