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Special license plates help officials in Colorado, California avoid tickets
KDVR-TV ^ | August 8, 2013 | Staff

Posted on 08/10/2013 12:05:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Loopholes in California and Colorado laws designed to keep criminals from hunting down cops and other public employees are being used by local officials and their extended family as a way to avoid paying thousands of dollars in traffic and parking fines.

In Colorado, special license plates issued to 100 state lawmakers and representatives not only shield them from radar tickets for speeding, but also prevent collection notices on past-due parking tickets.

That’s because the legislative plates in Colorado aren’t entered into the Division of Motor Vehicles database. If someone with a special license plate blows through the speed limit and is caught on radar, there is no actual information in the state’s records to cross-reference the plate caught on camera to the driver’s home address. The lack of information also applies to Denver’s collection department.

“Because the Department of Public Works relies on the DMV database to contact people with unpaid parking tickets we are not able to contact legislators with unpaid parking tickets,” Denver Public Works spokeswoman Emily Williams said in a statement.....

(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: california; colorado; corruption; cronyism; democrats; fraud
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To: meyer

If I could be a MichiganState Police traffic enforcement for just one day, I’d love to have responsibility for the Michigan/THE Ohio border. It would be fun to concentrate on and ticket every THE Ohio plated vehicle that crosses that border and automatically accelerates to 10 or more mph over the speed limit which appears to be almost every one of them. Heck, I ‘d nail them for three over just like the road dogs in THE Ohio are known to do.

It has nothing to do with the THE Ohio State/People’s UofM rivalry either. I celebrate when the whiny wimps on the Huron are defeated especially by The Ohio State.


21 posted on 08/10/2013 5:23:02 AM PDT by RushLake (Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. (Emerson))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Government employees from dog catchers to the pres. exempt themselves from most laws and who will ever change this disparity? No one. We The People have made our own bed and now “We” and generations to come must toss & turn in it.


22 posted on 08/10/2013 6:10:06 AM PDT by AKinAK
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To: NTHockey

State Troopers are gods in Massachusetts, top of the law enforcement food chain. This is not the case in all states. Their uniforms reflect this


23 posted on 08/10/2013 6:15:49 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: NautiNurse
NC state troopers pale in comparison to rural Virginia county mounties. Here, ten over on an interstate is a gimme unless you blow right past one, are generally driving like an idiot weaving in and out, or speeding in a work zone.

VA county sheriff’s deputies will get you for five over and claim they could “tell” that you'd hit your brakes when the radar was turned on. Pretext for vehicle search, since radar detection devices are illegal there.

There are occasional, coordinated campaigns by NC state troopers when average vehicle speed starts getting out of hand, though. Locals and commuters tend to know what's going on, akin to a rolling roadblock. Truckers do too. It's the out of state drivers who try to get through it who are stopped and ticketed, invariably.

So, if you're passing through NC and all lanes are inexplicably clogged, running the speed limit, it's not inexplicable. Just ride it out, he'll ramp off and work the other side soon enough.

24 posted on 08/10/2013 6:37:58 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: dennisw

Revenue collectors, not cops.


25 posted on 08/10/2013 6:38:21 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (Inbred, pedophile-worshipping, misogynists (mozlums) offend me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The new nomenklatura.
26 posted on 08/10/2013 7:38:32 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Special license plates

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27 posted on 08/10/2013 7:39:06 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: pepsionice

Police should confiscate the plates and issue a ticket for driving without valid plates.

But that won’t happen. the arresting officer wants to keep his job.


28 posted on 08/10/2013 8:17:57 AM PDT by chainsaw ("Two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by Obama")
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To: dennisw

Yeah, but their jodhpurs are pretty gay.


29 posted on 08/10/2013 8:49:03 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate." George F. Will)
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To: NonValueAdded

The Massachusetts Staties jodhpurs are the envy of LEO nationwide. Not that there’s anything wrong with it!! (I hope)


30 posted on 08/10/2013 9:06:59 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: pepsionice
I think this has also pushed the creativity scale....to figure out ways to sneak around and accomplish stupid things.



That too.

31 posted on 08/10/2013 10:17:41 PM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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