It’s revenue generation.
The tow truck probably hadn’t gotten over there yet to remove the vehicle, or the second driver would have had to fork over more hundreds of dollars to get the car back. Then file an insurance claim over the inevitable towing damage.
LEOs are the new tax collectors.
“Serve and protect? Oh, sorry, you completely misunderstand WHO and WHAT that refers to. See, we aren’t here to serve and protect the public. No sir. We are here to serve and protect the STATE, along with our big salaries and generous benefits. So either pay your damn registration fees or go to jail.” /s
It's really simple: one measure of cops' performance is the number of arrests they make. An expired-tag arrest is an arrest. It has the benefit that a person being arrested for expired registration is less likely to violently resist arrest than some others. It also allows improvement the city's racial statistics, to show that they arrest white folks too.
More and more, the law is only being applied to the basically law-abiding. Those who choose to live outside the law go their merry way, while woe betide the poor slob who tries t0 follow the law to the letter, but slips up on some minor detail.
The law abiding person will cooperate with officers and readily pay whatever fine is levied. The lawless, by contrast, will make no end of a fuss, and then fail to pay any fines. Often they require incarceration, at tremendous expense. Where is the profit in that?
I just can’t imagine why anyone would hate the pigs.
Sometimes it is difficult to respect some police officers. I hate to say that, but when they pull crap like this it is scary.
I wonder if they arrest illegal aliens as quickly?
Beltway Disease affects more than just elected officials, huh? It’s more contagious than I thought. Perhaps I should rethink the family vacation and plan to go someplace less disease-ridden.
If this is a new effort by the cops it is because the DC leadership has told them to do so.
“You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against — then you’ll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We’re after power and we mean it. Your fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted — and you create a nation of law-breakers — and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system...that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be easier to deal with.”
I thought Ayn Rand was overstating her case. It turns out she was exactly right or perhaps even understating the evil of the government liberals are creating.
I'm not saying this is right by any means, but I have to wonder how many people realize they create a legal contract with the State when they put State tags on their vehicles.
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Before anyone asks, no.... I'm not bats@*t crazy. It's called a Fiduciary duty.
Invisible Contracts by George Mercier has a great explanation on how this is done.