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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I'd ask you for the link to that article but then I also know that there is no such article, so asking would be pointless. Stop making stuff up.[/quote]

Found the relevant article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/08/06/dc-traffic-parking-tickets-black-neighborhoods/

The key part is this: "A Washington Post analysis of traffic tickets the District issued from 2016 through 2020 shows that 62 percent of all the fines from automated systems and D.C. police — $467 million — were issued in neighborhoods where Black residents make up at least 70 percent of the population and where the average median household income is below $50,000. In overwhelmingly White and financially well-off census tracts, where average median household income levels are above $100,000, the city issued about $95.9 million in infractions."

The city's most profitable camera at that time was on 295 in Ward 8, which I suspect skewed the analysis a bit.

The comments are much more informative than the article.[/quote]

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