How fines and fees trap people in a kind of penury from which they may never escape.
Tag: Traffic and Parking Violations
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Can You Drive Alone in the H.O.V. Lane if You’re Pregnant? A Post-Roe Quandary.
A woman in Texas said that, under the state’s abortion ban, she and her fetus qualified for the car pool lane. The argument could go well beyond driving.
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The Driver, the Officer and the Deadly Traffic Stop in Grand Rapids
Patrick Lyoya’s path begins in central Africa, Christopher Schurr’s in Michigan. They cross on a rainy spring morning, in an encounter over a license plate. One ends with a bullet.
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NYC’s Alternate-Side Parking Ritual Is Back. Cue the Outrage.
New York City says that drivers will have to move their cars twice a week again so that dirty streets can be swept clean.
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Cities Try to Turn the Tide on Police Traffic Stops
Chiefs, prosecutors and lawmakers are rethinking the value, and the harm, of minor traffic stops like the one that ended in a man’s death in Grand Rapids.