In my neck of the woods paper plates and zero enforcement are such a problem that as long as you don’t drive like you’re trying to kill someone right then, directly in front of a cop, you can get away with anything. A friend of mine did eight months in a new truck with no plates at all, not even paper ones. My bike’s registration is a year out of date. Painting all that shit on your car is just a voluntary “kick me” sign
yeah it’s like a trailer I saw the other day with “PLATES IN CAB” written across the back in huge letters and it’s like my brother they are obligated to check now! If you hadn’t written that literally noone would have noticed, but now any cop that sees the huge ass text HAS to call you on it
replying again because this got upvoted so much - is this now typical outside of Houston, Texas? Have cops really quit doing traffic enforcement nationwide?
Have cops really quit doing traffic enforcement nationwide?
It is simply the free market in action. Police officers selectively enforce the laws that generate maximum revenue for the department, thus ensuring they can buy more landmine-proof trucks. It sounds like licensing infractions are not big ticket items in Houston.
Defund government agencies -> agencies now have to prioritize which things get done because they don’t have the staff -> agencies prioritize the highest yield efforts to ensure the lights stay on. Repeat cycle.
This is a problem beyond just the police. It’s how politicians (mainly Republicans) undermine laws and regulations they don’t like, without having to succeed in repealing them. The free market aspect is just a layer on top of this.
I think it’s largely dependent on what kind of civilian traffic goes on in a particular area; it’s probably a common experience near the major metro areas.
For example, for alot of people far to the northwest of Chicago the largest amount of driving they are going to be doing is along the tollways/interstates going between the various suburbs and the city with their destination probably very close to an exit. There’s just straight up less of a chance of running into a cop than if you were using regular streets/roads. With the volume of traffic on highways you have to be acting like a COLOSSAL dumbass to get picked out of that crowd, there’s less police per sq. mile watching it, and whatever law your breaking has to be worth disrupting all that traffic and that’s a fraught situation in itself. You may see cops parked on the median with their speed guns out but they’re not checking your stickers or stopping people for having expired plates, they’re looking for the guy going 120+ on the shoulder or overloaded trucks.
E) Thanks @stalinsmawaifu for bringing up “add-on” charges, could have saved myself some keystrokes if I remembered the term.
If most of the traffic is on regular streets with slower residential or commercial areas those police have literally nothing better to do than cruise around looking for something like this to pounce on.
H town mentioned *anime girl with an Astros hat, cup of lean, standing in front of a slab *
Outside of murdering black people police love to brutalize sovereign citizen types so good luck with that.
tbf most “sovereign citizens” are racist ghouls, so they deserve to be picked on by thumbs
rear end it and see what happens
Interesting, where in the constitution does it “gaurantee” that?
That’s the thing, it doesn’t matter.
They will recite with 1000% confidence a section it comes from.
"Section 408 subsection 3 heading c of the Virginia rights of motorways from 1905 states that a traveler… "
Now sure, that section doesn’t exist and the constitution isn’t broken into that kind of formatting.
But are you going to explain the basics of general government, the constitution specifically, different formatting procedures, the deffinition of half a dozen different words including “travelling” “vehicle” and “operating”, and then still get into a physical altercation with them where they shit their pants and go limp.
The entire methodology behind this is dealing with them is way more of a pain in the ass then calling them a dumbfuck and hoping they don’t cause an accident.
These are some of the most credulous people in the country. Be thankful they were taking in by the sovereign citizen cult instead of something much more dangerous. They are some of the most susceptible to bullshit people out there given how willing to act on the bullshit they’ve read they are.
