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In reply to the discussion: When a Traffic Ticket Costs $13,000 [View all]Hassin Bin Sober
(26,315 posts)29. I had a guy working for me a few years ago who got caught driving suspended.
The city of Chicago has a $1300 dollar admin fee for driving on a suspended license. His license was suspended for parking tickets.
The new game in Chicago is everything is now a municipal violation versus a state violation. That way the city gets to keep all the revenue
(He wasnt driving one of my vehicles so I had no reason to run his record)
The shit this guy and his family went through was really eye opening for me. The city takes the car and sells it at auction for pennies on the dollar regardless of any lien you may owe to a bank.
How Chicago Ticket Debt Sends Black Motorists Into Bankruptcy
A cash-strapped city employs punitive measures to collect from cash-strapped residents and lawyers benefit.
https://features.propublica.org/driven-into-debt/chicago-ticket-debt-bankruptcy/
In 2007, an estimated 1,000 Chapter 13 bankruptcies included debts to the city, usually for unpaid tickets, with the median amount claimed around $1,500 per case. By last year, the number of cases surpassed 10,000, with the typical debt to the city around $3,900. Though the numbers of tickets issued did not rise during that time, the city increased the costs of fines, expanded its traffic camera program and sought more license suspensions.
The result: more debt due to tickets.
Legal experts say whats happening in Chicagos bankruptcy courts is unique. Parking, traffic and vehicle compliance tickets prompt so many bankruptcies the court here leads the nation in Chapter 13 filings.
Its a problem fueled both by the citys increasingly aggressive ticketing to boost revenue tickets brought in nearly $264 million in 2016, or about 7 percent of the citys $3.6 billion operating budget and a handful of law firms that pitch bankruptcy protection as a cheap solution to drivers woes.
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Just curious ... why not use Uber or the like instead of driving on a suspended license, etc., ...
SWBTATTReg
May 2019
#1
Why don't you pull your claws in before you accuse someone of being tone deaf...I
SWBTATTReg
May 2019
#16
An unfortunate situation for this poor lady overall. In MO, they have a law that limits the...
SWBTATTReg
May 2019
#21
I haven't seen anything like this (civil ignorance of other laws) in this area. It is something...
SWBTATTReg
May 2019
#24
I'm not even going to say what I want to say I'm just going to leave this thread alone. nt
UniteFightBack
May 2019
#5
her job involved driving. if she was going to use uber or similar for it then she might end up payin
JI7
May 2019
#10
$13000 worth for Uber, as well as the loss of priviledge? I didn't realize Uber is that expensive..
SWBTATTReg
May 2019
#15
I s'pose when we rely on "wonder drug" as the basis of our argument, we go downhill fast.
LanternWaste
May 2019
#18
In some states, one can get a hardship license, which is strictly to/from work/home. Also, I...
SWBTATTReg
May 2019
#19
Absolutely! What can't the poor just set up their uber account with their Visa Platinum?
Hassin Bin Sober
May 2019
#27
after my bad experiance with uber , i will never use either uber or lift ever again .
AllaN01Bear
May 2019
#6
I had a guy working for me a few years ago who got caught driving suspended.
Hassin Bin Sober
May 2019
#29
It sounds like she didn't put a lot of effort into taking care of the original ticket initially.
Captain Stern
May 2019
#30