T: is for Tickets and other crimes

While I am not a big fan of cars in this city they definitely make life easier especially if you have to be all over the place. This city's public transportation system leaves a lot to be desired especially since they are trying to raise the fares. Cabs cost an arm and a leg with all the construction and traffic. Bike lanes don't exist and with the tourists stopping every two seconds to gawk at something cars have become practical. Finding a parking space in New York City is as daunting as trying to climb Mount Everest. Get a parking ticket and you might have to pawn something. Park illegally and your vehicle will be towed and you will be shit out of luck. Park legally, have a unpaid ticket and have the city do one of it's random searches and you might have to rob a bank. An average parking ticket is between $65-$115 compared to California's $35, Boston's $50 rate. New York City issues nearly 10 million tickets a year generating nearly a billion dollars in revenue. This is a cashcow of sorts and they do not want it to slow. The City certainly isn’t going to help you because as the expression goes, they’re laughing all the way to the bank, literally and figuratively with your money. Do not be so quick to write a check to the PVB, because once you relinquish your rights, it is impossible to get them back. In California you can not be towed until you have five or more unpaid parking tickets issued to your license plate. In most states more. In New York they sweep the streets and on one un-paid ticket buy, buy car. Shouldn't this be illegal? Police are being brought up on charges trying to make quota's and writing unwarranted tickets. I know personally several people who have had this happen and when you try to fight, they win. Isn't this called coercion?

Have you heard what Elliot Spitzer is trying to accomplish? He's trying to license the million undocumented immigrants in the state. He states "we will never deport all those people, and that many of them drive now, without license or insurance". May I state "Yes they also kill people, damage cars with their lack of knowledge and we the injured get told, tough luck". I know, I had a young Guatemalan girl hit me years ago. She was coming up a down ramp. It turned out she couldn't read the sign. My car was totalled, I was bruised and dentally hurt. To this day I bear the scars. Nothing happened to her. “What I'm afraid of is illegal aliens from all over the United States would come to New York to get a driver's license.” It will put a greater burden on the taxpayers who are already burdened. In a city that already bears the scars of terrorism what about the justifiable fears of providing identification to terrorists. It took me weeks to replace my license when my purse was stolen. Now you will need "No ID". What kind of brainless thinking inspired this? Where are our voices speaking out? This will become a problem that will snowball and that is a F.A.C.T.