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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the OP of the thread about leniency for DUIs. This is also outrageous. This person was a known serial speeder who ran red lights. It was honestly just a matter of time until they killed someone. I truly don’t understand why we basically do nothing about vehicular crimes.[/quote]

Because the mayor and DC government elites make political hay catering to drivers. They go out of their way to make driving as cheap and easy as possible and with as little personal responsibility as well. Driver are allowed to behave with impunity in DC, no matter how many people die because of it. That and pandering to conservatives, basically hand in glove here, is the mayor's platform.[/quote]

This.

MPD is doing absolutely zero traffic enforcement now. This is not anecdotal - look at the massive drop-off in arrests for traffic offenses in the table that "DC Crime Stats" posted on Twitter. That drop-off is sure as hell not because people have become better drivers over the past 10 years!

And the Mayor and the Council - all of the Council, I believe - have made paying camera tickets completely voluntary. There are absolutely no practical consequences now for not paying fines. Whether you are a DC resident or not, your license can be freely renewed regardless of how much you owe. The debt can't be sent to collections and the city's booting and tow truck crew is so small that the chances of being booted or towed are infinitesimal. And that risk can be completely eliminated by not street parking.

CM Pinto and the Mayor are putting out statements like they just found out about this problem, but its not news to most people in this city. People have been posting videos to Reddit, Twitter etc. for years now about drivers with thousands in outstanding tickets driving extremely badly. I personally spoke with Pinto about this soon after she took office - more than two years ago! In the meantime, they have only made the problem even worse. No one in the DC Government seems to have any interest in doing what would be necessary to take drivers like this off the street because apparently driving is a right.  [/quote]

Is the bottom line issue basically public safety va. equity considerations? Essentially, tickets are oppression and removing licenses from speeders with thousands of dollars of speeding tickets could disproportionally impact socioeconomically disadvantaged communities?[/quote]

No, the problem is a disinclination to disrupt a transportation system that normalizes and prioritizes drivers and driving over every other consideration. And that's not a DC thing, it's an American thing.[/quote]

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