House of Eratosthenes

The Los Angeles Police Department will soon start ignoring California state law, which requires police to impound the vehicles of unlicensed drivers for 30 days.

The majority of unlicensed motorists in Los Angeles are immigrants who are in the country illegally and have low-income jobs. The LAPD says the state’s impound law is unfair because it limits their ability to get to their jobs and imposes a steep fine to get their car back.

As long as drivers can produce some form of I.D., proof of insurance and vehicle registration, they’ll be allowed to keep their car. Police Chief Charlie Beck insists that it’s simply leveling the playing field.

“It’s about fairness. It’s about equal application of the law,” Beck told a Los Angeles TV station earlier this month.

Ironic, isn’t it? If I break a law that says my car is to be impounded, my car is impounded. Nobody’s out there storming the capitol building protesting “Aw, gee, that poor Morgan K. Freeberg, it’ll be tough on him getting the money together to get his car out of the lot.” There damn sure isn’t anyone in the police force saying, hey let’s not enforce the law because it’ll be tough on Freeberg.

But illegal aliens get a pass because, and I quote, it’s about equal application of the law. Thin the herd so the species can survive, pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it, apply the law unequally for sake of equal application of the law.

The LAPD is already in the process of being sued by the National Rifle Association for not complying with previous court rulings that mandate CCW permit applications be made available at all station houses, that the approval process be conducted transparently, and other violations.

The LAPD breaking or ignoring laws they’re charged with upholding is nothing new.
- cylarz | 04/07/2012 @ 02:23
The majority of unlicensed motorists in Los Angeles are immigrants who are in the country illegally and have low-income jobs. The LAPD says the state’s impound law is unfair because it limits their ability to get to their jobs and imposes a steep fine to get their car back.

Honestly…why does anyone give a shit that the law is “unfair?” The state, and the local police departments… aren’t particularly concerned that its draconian gun laws unfairly impact me, a law-abiding gun owner. They don’t care in the least that the open-carry ban, attempts at restricting ammunition purchases, CCW requirement, handgun registration, and other assorted crap they’ve passed…impact me a lot more than they do the gang-banging thugs, to say nothing of people who don’t own or carry firearms at all.

But illegal aliens get a pass because, and I quote, it’s about equal application of the law.

In a sane world, illegals would have their cars impounded AND kicked out of the country. Now apparently neither of those things will be happening. Nice, isn’t it?
- cylarz | 04/07/2012 @ 02:27

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