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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you want to bet that the offender had a buddy working at DMV who buried the paperwork that would have pulled the license?  Wish the Post would dig down on that?  DC corruption runs deep.[/quote]

Nope doesn't matter, given that drivers in DC don't face real repercussions most of the time. Why would a DC driver care that DMV pulled their license in a city that lets people rack up $10k in tickets without repercussion? They wouldn't care.[/quote]

See this is where you are clueless about DC. Parking tickets, stop sign cameras, speed cameras are written against a license plate not to a person/license. These are civil infractions given to the registered owner of the car. Licenses are real ID and issued for 8 years. You would have to get moving violation given by a police officer to lose your license.

DC car registration is only given for one or two years. Before you can renew your registration all your tickets have to be paid. In addition to this ticket enforcement will boot and tow any car with two or more tickets over 61 days old.

So stop sign tickets are $100, parking tickets $30-$100, $100-$500 for speeding. DC speed limit is 15 or 25 mph. If you do not pay the fine in 30 days it doubles and you will usually get the ticket from a camera 20-30 days after the infraction. Within a mile of my house there are two stop sign camera and two speed cameras(one where it is easy to go 50-60 mph).

If you are an Uber driver or Amazon gig worker using your own car you can easily rack up the tickets pretty quickly- like $2,000-$4,000 in a month. The speed cameras are pretty easily seen. The stop sign cameras get a lot of people. I know some who got 5 each week for a month. [/quote]

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