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PARKING-TICKET FRAUD IN WASHINGTON, D.C. If there?s really a pattern of writing fraudulent tickets ?

By Glenn Reynolds

PARKING-TICKET FRAUD IN WASHINGTON, D.C. If there’s really a pattern of writing fraudulent tickets in order to raise money — and I’m pretty sure that there is, as I recall watching a D.C. meter maid ticket legally parked cars back in the 1980s, hitting only the ones with non-DC plates — would a civil RICO suit be appropriate?

I once got a ticket in D.C. for “driving through a flashing yellow light.” I won in court with the novel argument that doing that isn’t against the law. But I had to go, and I’m guessing a quota-driven officer was just hoping I’d pay the fine and not show up. The judge did fuss at him some, which was something.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 21, 2009 (boomark / email).