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hardluck

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3. Good. It's a terrible situation

Reply to pecosbob (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2019, 02:10 PM

Jun 2019

I used to work pro bono on skid row representing indigent persons on quality of life tickets like jaywalking and littering. Basically, an indigent person would get a $24 jaywalking ticket but with fees that would end up being over $120, which of course they could not pay. It would then go to warrant and allow the person to get picked up by the LAPD if they wanted to. It was/is a way for the city to "clean up" areas and keep the homeless towards skid row. For a time, I had a deal worked out with the city attorney to dismiss hundreds of these warrants/tickets at a time. Alas, about a decade ago, the city reneged on the deal and I had to fight each ticket individually.

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California Is Considering Ending Criminal Court Fees and Wiping Out Billions in Debt [View all] pecosbob Jun 2019 OP

We can afford it. Easily. displacedtexan Jun 2019 #1

Underfunding of local governments has reached a critical stage in many areas pecosbob Jun 2019 #2

Good. It's a terrible situation hardluck Jun 2019 #3