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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

DC issues 3.3 million tickets each year. That's twice as many tickets as Chicago. Chicago is four times bigger than DC, both in area and population. [/quote]

I'm fine with that.  And they shouldn't charge poor people less, they should charge rich people more.

People drive like maniacs here.  Who cares if they get tickets?[/quote]

Actually, traffic deaths are *incredibly* rare in DC. You sound like Trump. Do you think DC is a "hellhole"? Do you also think everyone is getting murdered?[/quote]

Where did you make that inference? I just don't care about people getting traffic tickets for moving violations.  It's at the very bottom of the list of my concerns with the justice system.[/quote]

People don't drive like maniacs here, at all. The streets are incredibly safe, especially for a large city. But somehow we still manage to hand out 3 million tickets to a city with only 300,000 drivers, but, at the same time, we search for reasons not to prosecute teenagers who beat random senior citizens to death. This why Trump is going after DC -- because some of the stuff we do is straight up crazy. [/quote]

People don't drive like maniacs in DC?  I've been sitting at a red light behind two other cars to have some lunatic pull around everyone else, go squealing up the oncoming lane, blow through the red light and make a left without even pausing to look.  I've seen people leaning on their horns screaming like lunatics at the car in front of them when it's stopped for pedestrians who have the walk sign lit and right of way to cross.  I've seen cars go flying down residential streets going 60+ mph.  There are definitely a crap load of lunatics and bad drivers.  Also, I wonder if you are even from DC.  DC may only have 300,000 drivers but anyone who spends any time at all on DC streets knows that 80% of the cars on DC streets have MD and VA tags.  Many of those horrible drivers on DC streets aren't from DC.  I think you clearly don't know what goes on here.[/quote]

Personal anecdotes about which cities have the worst drivers are about as useful as anecdotes about which states have the hottest women or which have the nicest people. Just look at the actual traffic statistics. The streets of DC are extremely safe.[/quote]

In terms of traffic, DC is safer than Texas and Oklahoma but significantly less safe than a lot of other communities.[/quote]

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