so these fucking road pirate cops setup "vehicle inspection checkpoints" where they have cops going over your car while they go down this little checklist of theirs ticking boxes as they go down the sheet.
now... do they do this in the hood areas of the city filled with shitty dangerous cars owned by people who have a higher likely hood of criminal history/warrants
nope... because none of them have the money to pay the tickets.
so they go to the rich neighborhoods and setup there knowing full well they can generate a ton of money nickel and diming the hard working people that live and drive through that area.
it's all about revenue generation under the guise of vehicle safety, if they honestly cared about safety they'd be in the ghetto busting shitty people driving shitty unsafe cars.
instead they target the areas who can afford to pay the tickets to rake in the cash.
Rich people tend to have influence that can put a stop to this practice if they want to. If the fines are small enough and the stops are not terribly inconveniencing, they may accept it as "A cost of doing business". A few hundred dollars is a pretty cheap price to discourage the unwanted from traveling through those parts.
To put it another way. The police department is going to get funded one way or another. The residents have to make a choice:
Pay an additional $200 / year in property taxes
Pay a fine of $1000 on average of once every 5 years.
The cost for both is the same. The 2nd option also gives the side benefit of discouraging poor from traveling through.
so you're telling me that people are just "ok with it" when police set up roadblocks in their neighborhoods to ticket them 5, 6, 700 dollars for chips in their windshields and tire treads that are 1/32 of an inch too low?
they do this during the day, when all the hoodrats are sleeping off their 40's and blunts.
if this was to discourage shitty people from coming to their neighborhood wouldn't they be doing it during the night time when the rats come out?
it works the other way around as well...
friend of mine lives in a decent sized city. big enough that the central city is a complete ghetto.
there's a LONG list of things cops can write you a ticket for in regards to vehicle condition/state of repair.
chipped window $150 low tire tread $100 cracked indicator light $200
etc...
so these fucking road pirate cops setup "vehicle inspection checkpoints" where they have cops going over your car while they go down this little checklist of theirs ticking boxes as they go down the sheet.
now... do they do this in the hood areas of the city filled with shitty dangerous cars owned by people who have a higher likely hood of criminal history/warrants
nope... because none of them have the money to pay the tickets.
so they go to the rich neighborhoods and setup there knowing full well they can generate a ton of money nickel and diming the hard working people that live and drive through that area.
it's all about revenue generation under the guise of vehicle safety, if they honestly cared about safety they'd be in the ghetto busting shitty people driving shitty unsafe cars.
instead they target the areas who can afford to pay the tickets to rake in the cash.
OP had it correct. Its keeping the poor out of areas that do that kind of shit.
i have it correct as well, because i've seen them do it.
where i'm fgrom there are no "inspection stickers" so they use roadside vehicle inspections to steal money from people.
they do it in the rich areas where people have money so they know the people will pay the fines.
they don't do it in the ghetto, where the cars should be taken off the road for being unsafe, because those people have no money.
Rich people tend to have influence that can put a stop to this practice if they want to. If the fines are small enough and the stops are not terribly inconveniencing, they may accept it as "A cost of doing business". A few hundred dollars is a pretty cheap price to discourage the unwanted from traveling through those parts.
To put it another way. The police department is going to get funded one way or another. The residents have to make a choice:
so you're telling me that people are just "ok with it" when police set up roadblocks in their neighborhoods to ticket them 5, 6, 700 dollars for chips in their windshields and tire treads that are 1/32 of an inch too low?
they do this during the day, when all the hoodrats are sleeping off their 40's and blunts.
if this was to discourage shitty people from coming to their neighborhood wouldn't they be doing it during the night time when the rats come out?