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Sumpm t1_j7u1bb6 wrote

Reply to comment by SolutionRelative4586 in State Car Boss: ‘Send Me Pictures of Defaced Plates!’ by SolutionRelative4586

Does he not realize that people are defacing or faking their plates, in order to avoid penalties related to their behavior? Is he really that stupid, or just pretending to be?

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spicytoastaficionado t1_j7ucvxa wrote

There's no way he's so obtuse to think all these defaced plates are not intentional.

I know that is what his "we'll send out free replacements" solution is tantamount to, but he can't be this dumb.

And from the article:

>“It’s bizarre that NYS DOT is so clueless on this, especially when they can make so much money from it,” said David Thom after viewing the exchange between Gallagher and Schroeder on YouTube. “Go to any other jurisdiction and there is zero tolerance for the kind of paper and defaced /obscured plates that you see everywhere in NY State.”

This is where my conspiracy brain kicks in and makes me think lack of enforcement is due to the amount of government employees engaging in this intentional abuse.

The state can make SO.MUCH.MONEY fining the shit out of people who intentionally obscure or deface their plates, and the state has never been one to shy away from fining people for anything and everything under the sun....so why is there such an enforcement black hole to this goldmine of revenue?

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SolutionRelative4586 OP t1_j7uhw0m wrote

Same thing with parking violations on fake or handwritten placards.

I'm convinced you could nearly fund the city by writing tickets on all fake placards and hand-written bullshit I see in dashboards of illegally parked cars. And yet you never see a single ticket. Funny.

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spicytoastaficionado t1_j7v33yv wrote

And these are not crimes of addiction or poverty, so you won't get the PR backlash from activists or the media if you enforced placard abuse and plate obstruction.

So....what the fuck is stopping enforcement?

The state loves money and loves fines. Vehicle violations like tinted windows that block 31% of light are incessantly enforced.

Yet this gets a pass????

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