One of the hot-button issues for Democrats in Michigan and Detroit is the complaint that Detroit's auto insurance rates are incredibly high, as in on average $4,000 a year for insurance high. Of course, the Democrats tend to claim this is due to racism.
There's a reason for the rates being so high, and it isn't racism.
Lets take Y for an example.
Why Y? Well, why not? Y is a female Detoriter I've come across in my legal journey in court recently who has a little issue.
You see, Y has been driving with her license suspended.
How long?
She's been driving suspended continuously for 15 years!
Y's license was suspended back in 2004 and she's been driving on it suspended ever since.
Prior to that she's had her license suspended and restored multiple times from 1999 until 2005, when it got suspended and stayed suspended as she never bothered resolving the 2005 suspension, she just tacked a series of more suspensions on top of that one.
Why? Because she doesn't pay tickets when she gets them and had been driving often without insurance. This has not however stopped her from driving all around the Metropolitan Detroit area.
She's unfortunately not a particularly good driver and tends to get pulled over. When she's and when she is pulled over, the police tend to quickly find out she's driving on a suspended license and then charge her yet again for driving suspended along with the reason why she was pulled over, she doesn't pay the tickets and it stays suspended
These episodes of her being caught speeding and improper lane changing and going through red lights mainly take place outside of Detroit and she complained that clearly, she's being ticketed and pulled over because she's being "profiled".
No, Y is bring ticketed not due to profiling, but because she's driving, and driving badly enough to warrant police attention, on a long-suspended license.
Oh, and Y's driving record goes on for 10, yes ten pages worth of charges and convictions for driving while license suspended and related charges that she keeps getting pulled over for and ticketed by the police.
Insurance costs are high in Detroit not due to racism.
Insurance costs are sky-high due to the fact that insurance companies don't like risk and due to Y and people like her driving around without insurance and with suspended licenses, and causing accidents without the slightest care, Detroit is a very high risk and high cost area.
In short, the real reason for Detroit's high insurance rates can be summed up in one word - Detroiters.
4 comments:
Grrrr...Jail. And boot on car until all those tickets are paid.
Agree with PH...
Jail, yes. Car sold to pay the fines, with the added benefit of keeping her off the road until she can get her hands on another one.
At this point it can't be her own car she is driving - she shouldn't be able to title or register it because of her suspended license and driving record, right? So she has to be borrowing cars from someone else.
Jail - maybe. What about attaching assets? She's doing it because outside of the night in jail and a trip to court (which she doesn't seem to mind any more) it doesn't hurt her to continue the behavior. Make it hurt in a way that I don't have to feed, clothe, and house her.
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