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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hello Karens!

You know the vast majority of out of state drivers pay their tickets, right? We have oodles of data on who gets tickets and who pays them. You can obsess about some random guy, but you should recognize that you're obsessing about a statistical outlier.

41 percent of tickets go to Maryland drivers, and 38 percent of tickets paid are paid by Marylanders. Virginians are worse. They get 27 percent of the tickets and pay 18 percent of the traffic fines.

The people who pay the least are the ones from outside the DMV, i.e. tourists. [/quote]
We're not talking about people who pay their tickets. The people who are issued tickets and pay them are responsible citizens.

We are talking about the people who do NOT pay their tickets. Those people tend to not be responsible and thus, are not responsible drivers.

No one is obsessing over some random housewife from Chevy Chase or a "random dude from Bowie" who got caught speeding one time and paid her ticket. We're saying that habitual offenders, who continue to ignore tickets and continue to drive poorly, need to face some kind of consequence. [/quote]

The number of people who don't pay their tickets is very small, and there can be a whole constellation of reasons why they haven't paid that have nothing to do with how they happen to drive. [/quote]

Tickets in DC are crazy expensive, and they grow quickly if you don't pay right away. The costs, [b]especailly when collections start getting involved[/b], can snowball really fast and that probably deters a lot of people from paying. [/quote]
What collections? The person who hit the bus at Ambar this morning has a ticket from July. It's April. Clearly no collection effort has been made.[/quote]

Have you ever gotten a traffic ticket? It does not take long before collections starting calling you. This idea that DC doesn't care if people don't pay your tickets is complete bullshit. [/quote]

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