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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a curious double standard on the left when it comes to traffic violations vs. violent crime. We throw the book at drivers. The city issues *millions* of tickets each year, many for minor violations. The attitude is that if you don't like it, then don't break the law. But with violent crime, people on the left are always looking for excuses not to punish the people involved. There's always some tortured reason why we can't enforce the law when it comes to violent crimes. [/quote]

Not true. There’s a pretty substantial push not to enforce traffic laws of any kind for equity reasons.[/quote]

Much of D.C.'s traffic enforcement is based on a desire for the generation of revenue, using automated mechanisms like speed enforcement cameras.  Public safety is a secondary consideration, since traffic enforcement is heavily criticized when directed at individually identified offenders whose racial attributes make their offense presumptively based on race rather than on law-breaking.  [/quote]

You'd think the locals would be smart enough to know where the cameras are, and stop running red lights and blasting through speed cameras at 10+ mph over the speed limit.  If you can't figure that out, it's on you.[/quote]

Great! Can we have the same standard for violent crime? Also, as a factual matter, only slightly more than half of the 3 million traffic tickets the city issued each year are for speeding.[/quote]

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