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Originally Posted by gregorio
Well said! It's the same reason they don't strictly enforce the car insurance laws. If they went around and towed all of the cars driving illegally in Philadelphia, there would be a wholesale change of elected officials in City Government. That's why our car insurance rates are so much higher than just outside the city.
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I can tell you why we don't impound for insurance in Philadelphia with two words- Angel Ortiz.
While we were running the Live Stop pilot program in portions of South Philly and Center City, we were impounding for everything the law allowed. That means anyone who didn't have a valid driver's license, valid insurance, and valid registration got towed.
When the pilot program ended and Live Stop went citywide, the good councilman made enough waves about poor people in his district being unable to afford insurance and how unfair it would be if they couldn't drive that the PD and Traffic Court caved and we can no longer impound for insurance.
By the way, wanna guess what the crime rate was in his district?
