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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Long Story Short: Police Over-Ticketing Poor Communities

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, News, Daily News

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Wanda Sykes tackles the over-ticketing of poor communities and why the government needs to stop using people as its "take a penny jar." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Across America, police are handing out

1:08.5

112,000 speeding tickets every day.

1:13.0

Yeah, that's a lot of tickets.

1:14.9

I'm like, where do they find the time to shoot people?

1:21.6

And those tickets aren't going away anytime soon

1:26.1

because these fines aren't just to punish you.

1:29.3

It turns out local governments need that money to keep the lights on.

1:34.3

Traffic stops aren't always about safety or hunting contraband or crime.

1:38.3

Some cities use traffic stops to raise money.

1:42.3

The cities and counties that are trying to use these schemes, trying to use these fines and fees

1:46.6

to balance their budget are basically charging a backdoor tax to poor people.

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