'I am struck, as always, by the imperfect, striving, hopeful, heartbroken people, just like the rest of us.... People who pay the price, at a rate far steeper than the rest of us,' JohnArchibald writes. 'Because the cost of having no money is high.'
have spent the last months talking to people who made that choice, who faced fines and traffic fees, often because of their own mistakes, but sometimes as a result of police departments like Brookside and others that have come to rely on fines and fees to fund their departments and governments. Sometimes, as an investigator in Brookside put it, those governments prey on those least able to pay, and least able to put up a fight.
Callie Greer has seen her daughters Niaya Williams and Tiffany Colley struggle with traffic fines and debt. Both went to jail to pay off traffic fines owed. “You’re not criminals!” she told them, exasperated when they said otherwise. “It was traffic tickets.” If you get caught speeding and have the money to pay it and forget it – like, say, the judge in Brookside who was ticketed on five separate occasions – you go on with your life, able to look down from on high at those who weren’t as able to atone for the same offenses.If you can’t pay the story is dramatically different. Perhaps you are put on a payment plan, or your drivers’ license is suspended for unpaid traffic debt.
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