Oh, I see , this is where you pretend to not understand what I was asking because of a slight semantic difference in our wording. Homeless people are poor. Poor people also suffer from an inability to pay for things, thats what being poor is. Seems to me you're saying a law is ridiculous if the people who conflict with that law also lack the ability to pay, or in other words, are poor. I'm not really convinced it was necessary for me to spell this out for you.
I'm not sure you really understand the intent of a law and what fines are for. They're not dependent on economic or social status.
No, I wrote specific things. You wrote bullshit that you're now claiming is the same thing. Poor people and homeless are not the same thing. That you struggle with understanding why something that is unreasonable for the homeless is not the same thing as unreasonable for the poor just tells me that you can't reason though something as simples as "poor" =/= "homeless". Their entire life circumstances are extremely, and obviously, different.
Homeless people are not just low wealth. They are literally homeless. Poor people are still homed, they have an address. How does a person who does not have a home receive notification about how to challenge or appeal a financial penalty when there is no way to contact them...since they don't have a fucking home.
You think someone gets a fine and just pays the cop at that moment in time? Have you ever seen that in real life? Did you ever pay a speeding ticket when you were pulled over - just handed the cop your credit card and he charged the fine? How moronic.
How does a homeless person get the financial tools to pay the fine? Do they walk down to the random payment address (which may be miles from where they were ticketed) and swipe the debit/credit card that they don't have? How do they get envelopes and stamps to mail the fine in? What the fuck do they put as the return address? If there is an issue with the fine, how does anyone communicate with them to address it?
JFC. Every time I think you can't be any less dense, you go and exceed expectations.
Anecdote time: I have a client who received a fine for breaking a traffic rule. He doesn't speak English. He misunderstood something about the fine (which he paid) and the court mailed him documents requiring him to show up in court or go to jail. The fine was in English, the documents that he had to understand so he could go to court and avoid steeper penalties were also in English. But more relevantly -- they were mailed to his fucking house. <<< how does that work with the homeless?
Financial penalties are pretty much impossible for homeless people to follow through on. Compared to incarceration where the homeless is held in a static location from which they are transported to their hearings and thus can receive notices about what's happening to them legally.