Law Chicago Mayor Lightfoot refusing to pay speeding & red light tickets as they pile up

[Arkain2K]

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot refusing to pay speeding, red light tickets as they pile up
By Andrew Miller | Tue, July 26, 2022
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Multiple police-driven vehicles used to transport Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot have reportedly racked up multiple traffic tickets that have gone unpaid despite the mayor's advocacy for stricter speed cameras in the city.

Two of the SUVs used to shuttle Lightfoot throughout Chicago have accumulated three speed camera tickets and two warnings in the past month. The tickets have so far gone unpaid, CWB Chicago reported on Monday.

Additionally, CWB Chicago reported that one of the SUVs in the mayor’s fleet has a red light ticket that has not been paid and two SUVs that were previously assigned to Lightfoot’s security detail have outstanding speed and red light tickets.

One of those SUVs is eligible to be booted and impounded over the lack of payment.

Two of the speed violations committed by Lightfoot’s SUVs reportedly occurred in school zones and the citations stated that school children were present.

Since taking office, Lightfoot supported a push to lower the "buffer zone" threshold that speed cameras allow before issuing a citation from 10 mph to 6 mph, arguing that it will make roads safer.

"No one likes speed cameras. I get it," Lightfoot was quoted last month. "But this is life or death that we’re talking about here, and we’ve got to step up as a city and address this."

Lightfoot also pointed out the potential dangers to kids despite being ticketed for speeding through a school zone with her own security detail.

"It is unconscionable that any City Council member would consider voting to allow for increased speeds near spaces utilized by our children," Lightfoot said.

In 2020, Chicago Tribune reported that the city of Chicago dismissed the majority of tickets that were issued to Lightfoot's security team, which included tickets given at times the mayor was attending non-city related events.

The Illinois Policy Institute, a libertarian think tank, found that Chicago has issued 3.8 million speeding tickets, generating almost $80 million in revenue to the city since Lightfoot lowered the threshold last year.

The Chicago City Council struck down a measure to repeal the lowered speed camera threshold last week in a vote that Lightfoot supported.

WLS-TV reported that 84% of all speed camera tickets issued were given to drivers driving between 6 and 10 miles per hour over the speed limit.

https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-mayor-lightfoot-refusing-pay-202428721.html

 

[Fatality]

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[scorpiorising]

That alien really needs to change her skinsuit. It has gotten so bad she looks like a bug-eyed zombie. She's endangering our lizard overlords' secret identities.

Everytime I see a picture of her I just stare at it for like 30 seconds trying to figure her face out. It's like some sort of abstract art.

 

[Otto!]

Rules for thee.

 

[SmilinDesperado]

Lock him up.

 

[Ignicious]

Well, sho looks like a Goldfish. Maybe she has the memory of one as well

 

[Evbo]

She looks like the horrible bitchy ghoul who owns the Hotel Rexford in Fallout 4

 

[J_C]

Greetings vaccine bot.

Mayor Heavyfoot

 

[Bagatur]

a politician being full of shit? I am shocked!

 

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Greetings vaccine bot.

Mayor Heavyfoot

Damnit. I was hoping I could be the first to make the light-foot joke. Nice work, J_C.

 

[HeLLMuTT]

She sucks...
But her memes don't

 

[jimjamjammer]

Leading by example...

 

[Beechwood]

Paying speeding tickets in Illinois is only for the small people apparently.

reminds me some of Illinois governor who had some scheme going where he wouldn't pay property tax on houses with toilets, or something like that. I forget the details. For a high tax state, seem government officials and employees look for schemes to avoid paying their fair share.

 

[cottagecheesefan]

She will be in the protected class because they need Chicago to harvest votes from the criminals, homeless, and dead voters in their voter rolls.

simple as

 

[witt1021]

Paying speeding tickets in Illinois is only for the small people apparently.

reminds me some of Illinois governor who had some scheme going where he wouldn't pay property tax on houses with toilets, or something like that. I forget the details. For a high tax state, seem government officials and employees look for schemes to avoid paying their fair share.

. Lol that is the current Illinois governor. Jb pritzker. He still currently is being investigated for that.

 

[Prutfis]

She will be in the protected class because they need Chicago to harvest votes from the criminals, homeless, and dead voters in their voter rolls.

simple as

They would probably just use bamboo fibers. I mean even YOU haven´t found them yet or did they come in so fast you couldn´t keep up?

 

[BearGrounds]

It's amazing how these people can still manage to sell the aura of righteousness to their voters.

This bitch is obviously a horrible person.

 

[Jkillah]

If she's not driving, is she responsible? I am not quite wealthy or powerful enough to have my own chauffeur.

 

[ElKarlo]

Well (D)ifferent rules for different people
Also red light and speeding cameras are just a revenue scheme.

 

[panamaican]

She's not driving then why is this about her? Shouldn't it say that her security team/police drivers refuses to pay speeding tickets?

Additionally, if some of these were while she was on official duty, it should say that Chicago refuses to pay it's own speeding tickets?

I'm too lazy to do the research but can someone breakdown how many of these tickets occurred when she was the one driving?