I have no idea how accurate those particular statistics are, but I can tell
you I peeked at some statistics that my small town in Colorado (at the edge
of a larger town) police put out, I don't remember the exact statistics, but
I noticed a very large number of people that were sited for driving without
a valid license, or insurance or registration violations. So if you
changed the wording from AND to OR, the 47% seems more realistic, as they
were add on tickets for some other stop, and at least one of the
license/registration/insurance paperwork wasn't right.
After thinking about why so many people were sited for those charges, I
think the answer is that they were pulled over for something, and in the
basic stop, they check license, registration, and insurance. I have known
many people that have accidently let their drivers license expire, and they
don't normally find out unless they try to rent a car, or someone notices
when looking at id when cashing a check. Also have known people that have
had their speeding ticket not paid for what ever reason, and the state
suspends your license, and you may or may not get the written notice of
that.
Also In my state, the officer MUST write you a ticket if you can't show
CURRENT insurance card, frankly I usually have several old insurance cards
in the car, but sometime the current one is sitting on the kitchen table
waiting to go into the car, in which case I would receive a ticket, even
though this state has implemented an electronic registration system that the
officer can normally electronically look up either registration or
insurance, but if you can't show the Insurance card, you get a ticket.
Also, you can get a ticket if you forget to sign your registration (on the
back in my state).
So add those all together, it is a revenue cash cow for the department to
write the extra ticket rather than give warnings. I also noticed the time
of day on many of the stops, and sometimes you will see someone got a
driving without valid drivers license at 1:45 in the morning, no other
charges. Well looks like the cops did a fishing expedition for DWI, and
didn't find it, but did ding the person for something wrong with the
license.
Steve
> To you people on the left coast. I read the following. Can it be true?
> Mark
>
> 47 % of cited / stopped Drivers in California have NO License, NO
> Insurance, and NO Registration for the vehicle of that 47 %, over 92 %
> were ILLEGAL
> ALIENS
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