I'm not in favor of this, but the framing "has no public safety benefit" is incorrect. Suspending drivers licenses over unpaid fines is done to INCENTIVIZE PAYING FINES. Dropping this policy basically means "poor people don't have to pay fines, if they don't care to."https://twitter.com/ACLU_OR/status/1100128925445906435 …
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This is something you see in a lot of related things where people picture a punishment as first-line whereas it's actually only applied (either de jure or de facto) as the last line against someone who just never stops.
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Here in Argentina the police are not allowed to even stop cars unless it is a roadside checkpoint with at least 2 police and a supervisor, due to the Dirty Wars of the 70s where people would disappear into cop cars and never be seen again. As a result, people here disobey traffic
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laws because they won't be pulled over. Traffic fines are not even misdemeanors here, as well. Fines are attached to the car, and the only time anyone must pay a traffic fine is if you sell your car. There is no order, people die in droves in car wrecks, pedestrians run over, etc
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