re: 7,050 tickets sent to uninsured motorists in Bossier Parish

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License plate readers are pretty Orwellian, in my opinion.

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I have no issue ticketing uninsured drivers, as it appears suspending registration/licenses doesn't work.

But these new mobile plate scanners is a whole new level, and I'm not sure it's a good thing.

NOLA is using them to cruise around and boot cars that have a single unpaid ticket. So you can be legally parked on the street, have a prior unpaid parking that you may or may not know about, and get booted.

I feel like this is overreach. And yes... it's all about revenue.

do that throughout the state! Then start impounding cars.

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Let one of those uninsured idiots run into your car and see if you still feel the same way after you end up having to pay for repairs out of your own pocket or having to eat your deductible for a wreck that was 100% caused by the other party.

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I’d rather pay uninsured motorist premiums than a 10 point whatever sales tax rate, this fee, that fee, and the other usuries to which law enforcement, the judiciary, and the prison system are addicted. You do realize that theoretically, if charges like driving without insurance didn’t land someone arrested, locked up, in front of a judge, and ultimately put on probation or otherwise “systemed” (I’m using no insurance type charges as a generalization for offenses of an ultimately civil nature that are punished criminally) a buncha the sugar tit on which public servants rot their teeth gets passed around to someone who may put it to better use than the police departments next new armored swat vehicle?

Freakin disgusts me to see things overly criminalized in the name of public safety. Whores. They are all whores.

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These people should get a ticket once a week until they comply

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They wouldn't pay the tickets

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Quanesha Green

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Scum. Just totally pathetic. $200 of your hard earned money that should have gone towards paying for insurance. That's just a drop in the bucket compared to what I have paid out in car insurance for the past decade+ that I have been driving. A personal cost that has been unnecessarily inflated because of people like her who can't be bothered to meet their responsibilities. Selfish bitch.

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I never realized just how high auto insurance was in La until I moved away, holy crap

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Because of the bad intersection of a large proportion of the driving population having little or (mostly) no insurance and the Morris Bart lottery legal system.

Banana Republic where pandering for votes gets and keeps you elected.

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This has zero to do with insurance and 100% to do with revenue.

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Probably true. If the parish allows the motorist to purchase insurance as a way to get the fine waved I think the program would be a success. But most of these people can't afford insurance, so this isn't going to solve the problem of uninsured drivers.

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Except when you trade in your license/registration/insurance in another state and Louisiana DMV manages to neglect that fact.

Then when the insurance lapses Louisiana issues you a ticket for a car you dont own and insurance you cant renew

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I actually had this happen to me. I moved out of state and changed insurance companies. Got hit with an $800 ticket from Louisiana for no insurance.

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You still have to pay the collision deductible.

Even if you had uninsured property damage and no collision, you still have a deductible.

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The UM coverage deductible is capped at $250 in LA. In all the sates I practiced in UM had no deductible but LA has some seriously screwy auto insurance laws.

Based on talking to LA attorneys the verdicts and settlements are similar or lower than in the states I practiced in but the LA insurance rates are SIGNIFICANTLY higher which seems to indicate either a higher claim occurrence rate or insurance companies are allowed lower claim to cost ratios.

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Also, the minimums need to be raised.

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I agree, but it will never happen. Just look at all of the OT ballers on here that talk about having liability only or “full coverage”. They have no clue how insurance works.