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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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He's got my vote. [/quote]

What do you think Patricia Bollinger, Officer Terry Bennett, Aaron Marckell Williams, Mohamed Kamara, Jonathan Cabrera Mendez, and Olvin Torres Velasquez would think about a candidate who believes that the drivers who killed them - all of whom had accumulated thousands of dollars in unpaid camera fines - were being “preyed upon”?

Do you think they would vote for such a candidate?

Of course, their lives means nothing to you. All that matters is your sociopathic need to drive at reckless speeds around DC neighborhoods without having to bother setting up your navigation device to alert you to the very few locations where camera tickets are located and the inconvenience of ignoring the request to pay the resulting fines when they arrive in the mail.

How disgusting.[/quote]

So the fines don’t work. We know this.
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Who knows if the fines work? People are completely free not to pay them - they can renew their licenses, register their vehicles, and suffer no other adverse consequences (bar a negligible risk of being towed if they park on the same spor on a public street for days on end) even if they have thousands in unpaid fines. Between this and the complete absence of any traffic enforcement by DC MPD, reckless drivers have free rein over DC streets. Even if they kill someone, they can plead guilty to “failure to yield” and walk away with a $50 fine and a few hours of community service. But Kenyon is out there arguing that drivers are being “preyed on” by enforcement? WTF?[/quote]

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