That second article shows where a fine goes. The local jurisdiction like a city who pays the cops to enforce traffic laws barely makes it’s money back and have kept fines the same for 20+ years. It’s the state legislature that has tacked on fees tripling the fines mostly to pay for things they are responsible for. Both teams are to blame, when Pete Wilson was in office it started and I remember back then reading an article that LAPD traffic citations fell by half because they lost money on tickets since the lion share of the money went elsewhere. It’s okay to get mad, just get mad at the right people and it’s been incremental by leaders from both teams, but it’s not the city of San Diego, it’s not Todd Gloria that can fix it, ask Gavin to fix it. I’m not defending Todd, not a fan at all, just pointing out that the fault may lie elsewhere. Plus Todd is a progressive, it’s against his ideology to act against the homeless so that’s the wrong tree to bark up. Not sure there is a tree to bark up these days. Funny thing is, Brin actually mentioned something about a 5 year residency test for services, that’s an idea that is worth looking into and since he is as progressive as they come perhaps Todd will go for that. That may very well be the solution if the OC article is not just anecdotal, which I cannot prove or disprove just from an article.
Final article but to give some data to the assertion that cities attract the poor, California is just a little more attractive. Sorry it’s an old article but I’m sleepy so I went with the first one and I doubt the UT would run an article like this today since that paper has downsized so much it’s all regurgitation nowadays.
disclaimer: the opinion of the author in no way indicates an opposition to the points expressed by other posters, just adding some reference material to previous assertions. Consider it added flavor and not an alternative entree.
