Fees and penalties drive traffic ticket costs through the roof

[ilbegone]

Originally Posted by PochoPatriot

Infraction fees and penalties are ridiculous and utterly out of control. Sadly, the people are not able to do anything about them. Having sat in traffic court, and listened to traffic court judges pontificate from their perches, they say the parts about fees and penalty assortments with a mocking joy.

It's a racket, and the judges are in on it.

It's not so much about paying fines or serving sentences, but how they screw with an offender otherwise.

I know people who couldn't afford an attorney ( they are provided with the Public non-Defender) and can't get away from the system.

They interfere with employment (difficult to get or stayed employed while the claws o' injustice are in them), and go out of the way to violate probationers, inventing reasons where there are none.

It turns into a vicious circle, sort of like Le Miserables.

And they get away with it.