Posted on 03/20/2023 3:27:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It was a felony suspension stemming from a vehicular assault conviction. However, he did his time and the suspension. DMV simply failed to properly reinstate the license due to shitty record keeping.
They’ve improved in TN too.
The DMV is still a little slow, but they have kiosks where you can check-in and pay. Then you’re just waiting for a picture to be taken.
But if you need a driver’s test, there is still a line and a wait. But they have an online appointment scheduler that helps. 2 to 3 month wait in a lot of areas, but if you’re willing to drive an hour and a half to a more remote county you can get in within a week.
Other things that are out of the DMV like annual tags have dramatically improved. We’ve stopped having to get annual emissions checked. And there is a local kiosk to buy tags. Literally no wait time. Scan the bar code on your renewal post card or prior registration, insert a credit card and the new registration print and comes out with tags.
This is the administrative police state. Anyone caught up in it and the courts is screwed. Judges are rubber stampers. The entire goal is to get money out of people through direct fines or some post rehabilitation process after jail.
Funny. I was pro police, law and order until about 26 years of age and over the next almost 30 years my opinion of police has gotten much worse and the courts are kangaroo rubber stamps for the $.
The incident that I was talking about was in TN, back around 2000. Guy traveled from Mississippi to Tennessee for a job, he was sent to the nearest state police facility to get fingerprints done for a security clearance, since the job was contract government requiring clearance. This was about the time everyone was phasing in IAFIS livescan, and the person doing the scan wasn’t familiar with the machine. They attributed his identity (name, d and pob, ssan) to the felon’s prints that were processed before his..... immediately flagged as parole violation wanted person, and he was jailed without charge. It took his mother a f’n YEAR to get her pride and joy out of the clutches of the Tenn Bur of Prisons. He had never in his life even been charged with jaywalking.
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