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 ...
We have been for most of a century, people are just beginning to notice, because they have became so blatant in their disdain for the serfs.
I think the notice-factor really was created by the internet. Once the newspapers and news channels were pushed to the side, and you could post updates to millions....there was no filter to stop the relay of information. Once some mayor has accomplished some corrupt act....you can post the information and half of town’s population know about the episode within seven days. It used to take years for the word to get out.
I think this has also pushed the creativity scale....to figure out ways to sneak around and accomplish stupid things.
For more on the abuse here in California, read this:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/dmv-189719-police-confidential.html
So one million people? Vehicles? Both? Don't have to pay tickets? The number is larger than this because an immune vehicle will be lent out to a correctional officers son who wants to take some long trips on toll roads and bridges for a month (for example) If this son blows through tolls in other states (say Oregon and Washington State) it looks to me that he is immune too
If someone with such a plate blows by a patrolman in some states (like maybe Ohio), they’ll be stopped and detained until the vehicle’s registration and ownership can be verified. And, the ticket will be issued.
An Ohio Highway Patrol officer would ticket their own mother for going 10 over the speed limit. They mean business, and a bigwig from some hard-left legislature in another state isn’t going to be able to claim immunity.
OH and NC highway patrols have been extra tough on speeding drivers for decades.
An Ohio Highway Patrol officer once told me to get off his highway via his loudspeaker. He did not give me a ticket. This was 1993.
I complied and went via the local roads.
In the old days, the good ole boys just carried a card issued by the sheriff right under their driver’s license.
It must be Be Nice to Mom Week in Ohio. I thought the penalty for ten over was summary execution. (just kidding,...sorta).
“An Ohio Highway Patrol officer once told me to get off his highway via his loudspeaker. He did not give me a ticket. This was 1993.”
You should have reminded him that its the people’s highway. And, so is the patrol car, and perhaps his weapon and uniform, depending on Ohio policy. Oh course, this would have really pissed him off and he would have written you up for any and everything possible - probably would have checked your tires to see if they were wore down to the safety bars. But, you would have made your point. Hey, gotta take a stand every once in awhile, right? LOL :)
I can tell you that from personal experience. I live in NC, and once in the mid-’90s got a ticket in OH on two-lane US 52 for doing about 8 over the speed limit. Bright sunny day, no other traffic, I crest a hill right into an oncoming state trooper and bang! He does a U in the road and pulls me for 63 in a 55. No mercy, no warning. I mean, I *was* doing 63 in a 55 so it was legit, but still.
The worst part was that Ohio entered the citation TWICE. So when I went to renew my license in Virginia the next year, I had two speeding tickets on my record and had enough points that I had to take the written test again in order to get my license...at age 30. That’s not embarassing or anything. (I also managed to get Virginia to remove the duplicate ticket and “refund” me a couple of points at least.)
State troopers/highway patrolmen in most states, from my experience, are not to be messed with and are going to nail you to the wall if they stop you. The only times I’ve ever gotten off with warnings when being pulled over have been various local cops...and one Shenendoah National Park ranger.
}:-)4
My car had non-Ohio plates and kinda looked like crap (so he wanted me off his highway) and he could have written up the vehicle for a few things I think. Thank God he let me go my own way because when I got home I realized I had forgotten to take my drivers license :)
This happened 7AM near end of his shift so he figured he would buzz me and have some fun
So I am very happy with the way this Ohio State Police “abused” me
Oh, great. Obama must not have thought of this idea, but now it will become national. New executive order on the way!
All states will be required to shield tens of millions of “special” people who need to be “protected.” I won’t list all of the likely categories. You probably know who they are.
“All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.”
Orwell, Animal Farm 1946
Government workers and elected individuals. 2013
“The actual number is just shy of one million (996,716)! “
There was another OCR article about the abuse on the 91 Toll Road which stated taht a “white hat” at LAX held the record for the most “unpaid” toll trips on that stretch of road. He “owed” more than $40,000 as I recall but they couldn’t find out who he was even though the paper managed to find out. The article also said that the term “ law enforcement” included people like dispatchers and other non-officer types and in some cases librarians and the cars driven by the spouses and extended families of cops.
We already are; the banana is just getting riper and riper to the point of rotting altogether.
One should always be correct in describing anything to do with the state of Ohio, hereafter correctly referred to as THE State of Ohio.
That wasn’t just “An Ohio Highway Patrol officer” that you encountered.
What you encountered was “An THE Ohio Highway Patrol officer”.
Example: “I was just tooling around in my little red convertible in THE State of Ohio last week when, out of nowhere THE Ohio State Trooper pulled up beside me, waving his THE Ohio State Trooper arms pointlessly in a typical THE Ohio State Trooper manner, driving his THE Ohio State Trooper copcar erratically in rhythm with his THE Ohio State Trooper arm spasms. Does THE Ohio State know that their are served thusly by these THE Ohio State Troopers?”
Hopefully this helps.
On my way to a hockey tournament in Cape Ann, MA, I had a state trooper bellow over his bullhorn: “If you’re going to drive that slow, move out of the way.” I was doing 70 on the interstate. He flew by me - must have been doing 90.
And to the NSA trolls, FU.
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