Posted on 08/15/2019 9:30:27 AM PDT by Vigilanteman
A Pennsylvania state legislator wants to revive the registration sticker two years after it was discarded as a cost-saving measure.
A bill before the House Transportation Committee would not only bring back the tiny sticker, but tie it to state vehicle inspections as well, according to the proposed legislation introduced by Berks County Republican Rep. Barry Jozwiak.
The Department of Transportation stopped issuing the stickers in 2017, a product of legislation passed years earlier. The move was projected to save more than $3 million.
Jozwiak said Tuesday at a committee hearing that the loss of the stickers has given police one less visual tool to pull someone over, according to Pennlive.
A retired state trooper, Jozwiak said he has law enforcement groups on his side.
(Excerpt) Read more at triblive.com ...
Why do cops need another excuse to pull people over? If you really think there is a possibility to bleed some fine money out of them, a silly extra little excuse will make no difference.
There are more and more license plate readers on police cars. Hard to imagine that little colored stickers are needed.
If people are not engaging in criminal behavior, then why should police pull them over? This just confirms the suspicion that PA police would rather go after soft targets for revenue than the criminals the public desires them to go after.
“There are more and more license plate readers on police cars. Hard to imagine that little colored stickers are needed.”
My first thought too...they know more about you in 1 minute of following than your wife of 20 years knows about you. This guy, like most Republicans, is still living 50 years in the past. He probably also thinks that Hispanics come here, they work and make money, and then they simply go home. In other words, they don’t stay, and they don’t have children...in his little world.
Plate reader in cop car reads the license, sends a query to state server. Response comes back with whether the car has current registration, insurance, and inspection, and whether owner (or anyone at owner's address) has any outstanding warrants and whether owner has CCW.
And all this happens with every plate the cop car passes, with the plate reader giving a "ding" if there's a justifiable reason to pull the car over.
And since the judgement is made by software, the cops are less vulnerable to charges of being racist and only pulling over drivers-of-color.
Yep! Our masters bare their fangs...
While the state police officer assigned to her case was nice and polite (and had her make several trips to the local police barracks to go through mug books before they closed the case), the point was clear:
PA State Police were too busy to respond quickly to crimes which were unlikely to produce revenue for the state. However, they have plenty of time to pull people over on minor traffic violations which produce fine revenue.
Local coverage claims the lack of stickers is costing PennDOT $22 million.
They don’t explain why.
What, the broken tail light isn't good enough?
In Texas you cannot register your car unless it passed inspection.
It’s a population control device.
Owning a car in Pennsylvania is the hardest thing to do. Registration costs, their ridiculous registration notaries, and their own private fees - it’s outrageous.
You buy a used car in PA and it will cost you $600+ just to register the stinking thing. It makes poor people worse off because they can’t ever get to work.
Can’t do that here either.
The way it used to work is when you renewed your plate PennDOT would send you a sticker with the year, which you placed up in the corner. A few years ago they decided it was a waste of money to print and mail these by the millions each year.
When your car passes state inspection the mechanic puts a separate sticker in your windshield.
Even without automatic license plate readers, the police can have all the information they need about that license number within mere seconds of putting it into their computer.
That cheezy little tag, less than one square inch, was so hard to see, the cop would have to have you pulled over for it to have been any value.
If you have been pulled over, they don't need that tag.
In Texas we get the registration sticker, but not the inspection sticker.
All the stickers do is let them actively troll for people who forgot to send in their renewal.
“With Republicans like Jozwiak, who needs Democrats? I don’t miss the stupid little stickers and your inspection information is displayed on your front windshield anyway.”
It helps to read your own posted article.
If politicians cared about helping the poor out of their circumstances they would eliminate government car inspections.
Imagine a young man gets a $15 an hour job but needs transportation to get to work. So he scrambles for 2-3 weeks and saves up $500
He can buy a cheap car and in a couple months of saving buy a $2000 car. After another. Six months or so, he can buy a $5000 car and drive that for a few years. He becomes a producer and great member of society.
In Maryland, cars need to be inspected on sale. That generally adds at least $1500 to the price of any older car.
So the government is disenfranchising the poor.
>>>In Texas you cannot register your car unless it passed inspection<<
Inspections (?), I thought Texas was a Free State. Well, they still don’t have Constitutional Carry so maybe “free” is too strong a term. More like CA Lite. Too bad...
Even in Commiefornia they only require a Smog Inspection every two Years but they don’t require a Vehicle “Inspection”.
We are currently living in the Free State
That’s why they want to build high-speed rail to Punxsutawney.
Forgot to finish my last sentence.
We are currently living in the Free State OF MISSISSIPPI.
Moved from Commiefornia four Months ago.
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