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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Almost every crime report I read talks about the getaway car having paper tags. I see fake paper tags all over the city. Why is the city not pulling these cars over? Worst case, you ticket someone for illegally avoiding speed/red light cameras. More likely, you find stolen cars and people up to no good. Seems like low hanging fruit. [/quote]

DC can control DC things. Why doesn't Maryland crack down on Maryland paper tags?[/quote]

Are you people really so dumb that you don't realize people are printing their own tags attached to nothing.

The city does not care.[/quote]

So...there is a paper tag on a parked car. Issuing a ticket does nothing, because the tag isn't traceable.

Then what?

I get it for a moving violation. How often does that happen?[/quote]

DC is down from 10 booting teams in the entire city to 7 this spring. The Mayors goal was to further reduce to 5 or fewer teams.

[quote]Staffing at DPW is another factor. Currently, the department has seven two-person crews booting vehicles.[/quote]

The issue according to the Mayor is safety. Her plan is to basically automate all of the city's interaction with drivers. This is based off of the fact that DC consistently brings in $100M a year in traffic fines from red light cameras. So she is putting in five times as many cameras with hopes of tripling the revenue. All without interacting with a driver.

She has been asked how this fits in with vision zero and she believes that the deterrent value of the cameras will ultimately provide vision zero gains.

Interestingly in all of this, this revenue is generated off of DC resident who pay tickets. It really does not impact those who don't pay, because, the Mayor does not want to interact with them.[/quote]

Right. Both the Mayor and the Council seem to not want any kind of manual enforcement of traffic regulations - that is, zero interaction between MPD and motorists.

I don’t know whether they haven’t thought it through or just don’t care, but the effects of that attitude are manifest both in the crime and traffic statistics.[/quote]

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