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74 points

Police def overdid it, but part of the problem might be that some people would prefer to pay the fine for speeding because it’s insignificant to them. This specific component of the legal system is broken because it treats the wealthy exactly the same as everyone else.

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65 points

Fines need to scale based on the wealth of the perpetrator. It should be an equal punishment for breaking the law.

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Also, you can just mail speeding fines to people, there’s no reason to pull anyone over for that shit except to initiate a conflict.

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22 points

They use the pull over as opportunity to search for more offenses

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10 points

They could have said “no problem sir, we’ll get this ticket to you right away” and then slow walked the whole process. Taking up hill’s time would have caused him more problems than anything else.

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That sounds good in theory but that only hurts the middle class disproportionately. Not to mention it violates the constitution.

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7 points

Maybe there’s some precedent, but I can’t see why equally proportionate punishment should be unconstitutional.

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Not to mention it violates the constitution

Almost as if relying entirely on an aged document written by the rich to set laws for the modern rich doesn’t work 🤔

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2 points

You’re assuming the fines will be scaled up to hurt everyone as much as they hurt broke people. They should be benchmarked against somewhere in the middle class, scaled down for poorer people and up for richer.

Fines should be punishing but not devastating. At least not for speeding.

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9 points

Over here speeding gets a fine and points on your license which when you hit the magic number you get your license revoked…

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8 points

Those points can almost always be negotiated down.

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