To: Rahm Emanuel, Mayor, City of Chicago
Chicago City Camera Ticketing & Booting Discrimination
Reduce the number of traffic cameras in impoverished neighborhoods. Adjust tickets based on income so that ticketed persons at or under the poverty level are duly penalized but still able to pay the fines. Reduce the number of searches carried out in impoverished areas for booting purposes. They can't pay. Place more cameras in affluent areas where they are more likely able to afford frivolous tickets.
Why is this important?
On October 14, 2010, I got the call that my second oldest sister was dead. En route to the hospital, while stuck in traffic at a malfunctioning traffic light, I was photographed & subsequently received a camera ticket for 'running a red light'. How impersonal. Those cameras proliferate in lower economic neighborhoods. Then the poor who can barely pay Chicago's exorbitant rent, food prices & taxes let alone high priced tickets, get booted! I've seen 5 booted cars on the same block along with several foreclosed homes. It's ridiculous and needs to stop.