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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a good one:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/09/17/dc-child-struck-driver-tickets/

Remember when a lot of posters were upset that that driver on Rock Creek parkway killed three people and they had $50k in speeding tickets but never lost their license???

Why is this city so insane? Fking impound the cars. I hate this new era of progressive nonsense. I’m sorry but sometime people shouldn’t drive.[/quote]

[quote]“If I had ran the light, I would have run her over,” he said. “She damaged my car.”  [/quote]

Wow, he said that to the press?

Dude was in a Range Rover.  This isn't about "progressive" or whatever angle you're talking about.  It's about a complete lack of any enforcement of assault committed by motorists when they are motorists.  The USAO won't pursue charges even when people are killed in a flagrant fashion.  The DC-AG won't do jack either.

They have tickets in a system, which they hide behind a license search.  They should make this open data. Give a bounty to people who snag these aholes who have multiple thousands of unpaid tickets.[/quote]

It is 100% the fault of progressive policy. Read up on why the progressive city council elected to allow speeding scofflaws to reregister their licenses or not lose them at all no matter how many speeding tickets they got. And this article is another example of how dangerous that is. They chose to allow this societal harm of dangerous driving so as not to deprive people of their livelihood. Basically progressive policy 101.[/quote]

Federal judges in DC said that the law to require paying tickets was a due process Constitutional violation. That's why the DC Council was forced to change the Clean Hands Law. I had no idea about this until I read the federal judge's decision.
https://webservices.courthousenews.com/sites/Data/AppellateOpinionUploads/2022-28-12--09-06-44-122cv2481.pdf[/quote]

That’s part of it. The main reason was the city council deemed it “inequitable” to take away drivers licenses from marginalized communities who need their cars to go to work. So it became an issue of economics vs safety and they, being super cool progressives, chose the former. This makes the whole city less safe.[/quote]

Would the city be safer if more people in marginalized communities were unemployed and unable to drive? Or would these individuals be placed in desperate situations leading to crime?[/quote]

We are talking about serial traffic offenders. They are already committing crime, and yes, the city would absolutely be safer if laws were enforced.[/quote]

It is fully insane that someone would even ask the question.  Still excusing crime in ways that put law abiding people, especially the marginalized, at huge risk.   [/quote]

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