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Kizzume
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 Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:45 pm Post subject: Cities Eliminate Right to Contest Parking Tickets |
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http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/20/2061.asp
| Quote: | Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, DC effectively eliminate the right to contest parking tickets.
DC DMV logoIn an attempt to stem the loss of revenue from motorists contesting parking tickets, cities are effectively eliminating the traditional due process rights of motorists to defend themselves at an impartial hearing. By the end of next year, Washington, DC's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will not allow anyone who believes he unfairly received a citation to have his day in an administrative hearing.
"DMV will complete the phase-out of in-person adjudication of parking tickets in favor of mail-in and e-mail adjudication by December 2008," the Fiscal Year 2008 DMV plan states.
The move is intended to allow automated street sweeper parking ticket machines to boost the number of infractions cited well beyond the 1.6 million currently handed out by meter maids. As one-third of those who contest citations in the city are successful, the hearings cut significantly into the $100 million in revenue tickets generate each year. |
This is nuts, is it not? Can anyone defend this?
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jq
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This country has become so disastrous the past 7-10 years! But the scariest part is, it has especially accelerated in craziness the past 2-3 years!
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Kizzume
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Absolutely. I think the START of things falling apart was in 1998. I think that's when it started. Notice--that since that time, this country has barely had any new ideas in entertainment, technology, any of that--that's when we started falling behind. That's when profit maximization started to TRULY become more important than actual product across the country. It's been so depressing to watch the progression, because everyone really knows in the back of their minds how this progression is going to end. We all know it--we all feel it--we all sense it, but hardly anyone talks about it because it's sooooo doomsday-sounding.
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