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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This idiot with thousands of dollars in speeding tickets could have killed someone today. It's only a matter of time before he does. WHY can't this city start enforcing the law with regard to unpaid tickets? And don't give the the progressive b.s. about how it's unfair to the poor.  If you can afford to speed around this city in a Mercedes, you can afford to get your car out of a boot or tow for unpaid tickets.

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Racial equity issues.  It will disproportionately impact people of color. [/quote]

This is just making excuses for bad behavior. If people of color are disproportionately speeding, putting others lives at risk, then they deserve to be ticketed just like anyone else who behaves in this way. It's like people excusing the ATV riders who put other drivers and pedestrians at risk with their juvenile behavior and people say, "Oh it's just a cultural thing." Yeah, no. It's a dangerous thing that impacts quality of life for everyone. And it's going to get someone killed. [/quote]
NP here, I agree that we need to keep ticketing and go further to make sure the tickets get paid. But ever since the beginning of the speed camera program the cameras have been disproportionately in areas of the city with more POC.[/quote]

This isn't true - the cameras have always been focused on downtown more than any other area.  In fact the cameras have always been pretty evenly divided across the city.

Now it is true that in terms of the number of citations more are coming from Wards 7 & 8 but that is because that is where a lot of the high volume roads in DC are.

Which is a reflection of the real equity issue here which is that it is low income neighborhoods that historically have been burdened by highways serving suburbanites and those residents have disproportionately born the cost in terms of poor air quality, lowered property values and vehicular violence.

If anything given the low car ownership and driving rates among lower income residents there should be more cameras rather than fewer in Wards 7 & 8.

BTW the vast majority of citations issued by all DC cameras go to suburbanites not DC residents.[/quote]

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