I agree that municipalities too often use traffic tickets as a major source of revenue rather than for the purpose of trying to maintain safe roads.
But the woman used as an example in this article is another one of these people who makes a whole bunch of bad choices and then wants society to bail her out. It isn’t just poverty, it’s bad choices. Like getting tattoos instead of paying traffic fines. I’m sure if you went to her house you’d find more evidence of money spent on luxuries instead of necessities.
I hope states can find a way to get these small municipalities under control, but trotting out these poverty examples isn’t doing anything for the argument in my book. We all need justice, and crooks in government are especially distressing. Justice should be enough of an argument to win the day.
Not going to defend the author’s choice of examples but it happens to law abiding white people as well. It is just that we can afford to pay $90 to a traffic lawyer to appear for us and have the charges reduced. What would you do if the court was thirty miles away and was held every two weeks and had a job and children to care for?
“But the woman used as an example in this article is another one of these people who makes a whole bunch of bad choices and then wants society to bail her out. It isn’t just poverty, it’s bad choices. Like getting tattoos instead of paying traffic fines. I’m sure if you went to her house you’d find more evidence of money spent on luxuries instead of necessities.”
And don’t they ALWAYS have a passel of children as well! That alone is probably the reason for their “poverty.” There is little question in my mind as to the corruption that exists in traffic law enforcement everywhere today, but as you point out, this isn’t a real example of the problem.