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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looks like Kenyan McDuffie wants to make the explosion in traffic camera tickets an issue in the mayoral race.

"We also don’t want to continue to prey on folks with traffic tickets and enforcement in ways that communities have been plagued by increasing costs. We know that there are folks in this city simply trying to figure out ways to get to work favorably, simply trying to figure out ways to make money, to take care of themselves and their families, and we want to lighten that load for them."

https://wtop.com/dc/2026/01/kenyan-mcduffie-announces-run-for-mayor-tells-wtop-why-hes-entering-the-race/

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About a year and a half ago, a DC-licensed driver of a vehicle that had accumulated literally thousands of dollars in speeding tickets hit an elderly pedestrian as she walked across a crosswalk in my neighborhood.

The driver struck the elderly pedestrian with enough force to throw her about a hundred feet down the road, despite it being a 25mph zone.

Despite having thousands of dollars in unpaid fines, the driver had been able to re-register her vehicle, renew her license, and generally go about her business without any fear of suffering any consequences for her unpaid speeding tickets.

In just the past month, an MPD officer - Terry Bennett - and another pedestrian - Aaron Marckell Williams - were killed by drivers with extensive records of speeding tickets and another infractions.

For the complete lack of consequences enjoyed by sociopathic drivers in DC, we have council members like Kenyon McDuffie to thank.

But Kenyon Duffie is worried that folks are being preyed on by “traffic tickets and enforcement”.

Patricia Bollinger. Officer Terry Bennett. Aaron Marckell Williams. Mohamed Kamara. Jonathan Cabrera Mendez. Olvin Torres Velasquez.

All died at the hands of drivers that Kenyon McDuffie feels are being preyed upon on by “traffic tickets and enforcement”.

I can’t wait to ask him exactly what enforcement these drivers faced before they killed an elderly DC resident, a 26 year-old pedestrian from Southeast, an MPD officer who graduated from Ballou High School and Bucknell University, and three rideshare passengers. If anyone else has any insights, please feel free to share.[/quote]

cameras are useless, except for the profits they generate for the camera companies. [/quote]

Dozens of rigorous studies say otherwise, but why bother with them when we’ve got your vibes to go on.[/quote]

Look at the evidence right in front of you. Over the past decade, DC increased ticketing by ten fold. We now issue more tickets per capita than probably anywhere else in the entire world. We issue so many tickets that AAA now warns drivers about DC (AAA calls the ticketing in DC "predatory"). And what happened? Traffic deaths did not decline. [/quote]

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