Posted on 06/21/2015 8:31:27 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Everyone has a story: The time an unlicensed driver rear-ended me. The time an unlicensed driver ran a red light and killed a co-worker’s dog as her husband was walking the dog in a crosswalk. It seems as if there are so many unlicensed drivers in California that authorities are not capable of deterring the unlicensed from getting behind the wheel.
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This has driven a wedge between the average California citizen and law enforcement. No longer are the police out there to "Protect and Serve" but rather act as revenue securing agents for the state.
This has been going on for a long while in Ca, at least 25 years as it was that way when I left. Fines then where outragious, I cannot imagine what they are now. I used to wonder how some afforded them, I guess they just don’t pay them.
We should have the same attitude as the "federales" in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre". "Licenses? Insurance? We don't need no steenking licenses and insurance!"
Victor Davis Hanson has written the same. There’s no money to be had from stopping, arresting, fining illegals, so why bother?
Problem is if you have something to lose you need the insurance. If you don't have anything to lose you evidently don't need it.
As to using the criminal justice system as a revenue enhancer historically dying Republics resort to such a measure. The mob must be supported and as a last ditch measure fines are increased as is enforcement.
True I guess one would be a fool to drive a new expensive car in California as you would be a target for revenue seeking law enforcement.
It’s not just California. I know two Floridians who were doing okay, making it on their own. Then, they ran afoul of the law for ridiculous, non-driving related offenses; improperly wearing a seat belt and burning trash. Both got fines so high they couldn’t pay them. They lost their driver’s licenses and, therefore, their income. Now they’re on welfare. Good going there, police state.
Same here in NYS. Any traffic ticket written in the state by any LE agency gets a state imposed surcharge on the fine that effectively doubles it.
Nice racket.
Arizona too!
Before you know it, there will be only two kinds of drivers on the road, rich people and illegal aliens!
Paid the costly fee the register my car in California. Got the new registration and license plate sticker in the mail. Put the registration in the glove box along side my mandatory proof of insurance. Forgot to put the new sticker on the license plate. Was pulled over by the Highway Patrol not for any moving violation but for being having an expired license sticker. Showed the officer my current registration and told him I forgot to put the sticker on the plate. Instead of being given a warning and telling me to put the sticker on the plate at that time, it was in the glove box and it was shown to him, I received a $250 ticket. Bitter? Yeah!
The real organized crime is perpetuated by legalized laws of extortion by government which steals our money daily.
You should rejoice for the fine of $250 as you have helped support an illegal alien. You Cosmopolitan devil you.
“Nice racket.”
Excellent description. I also call it extortion.
Dido that here in Texas.
That’s just so wrong. I’m pizzed off for you. Thieves.
Of course the Chron reports this as a civil rights issue of abuse to illegal aliens who fail to pay fines and even to report to the courts when in fact it is MY civil rights that are being abused when one of them rear ends me & the police let him drive off scot-free with his expired insurance card and bogus license. It is MY insurance rates that soar to pay for his crimes while his “rights” include a sh0rt hop to Tiajuana rather than a shorter trip to court.
A few years ago on a Sunday morning my wife was backing out of an/the only occupied space in a large parking lot. She was hit, back ended, by a speeding car being driven by a an illegal from south of the border. My wife claimed the incident happened so quickly after her last pause while backing out that she never even saw the other car/driver. Our insurance company actually took the word and sided with the illegal. It was then we learned that illegals have rights above honest citizens especially when it comes to who has the money.
Pfffft.....police enforce laws and traffic regulations.
If the people do not like the laws and traffic regulations they should stop voting for statist stooges who pass those damn laws.
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