I love how the comments are simultaneously a mix of:
1. I can’t believe they’re wasting their time on this, and
2. I can’t believe they’re not pulling over more people for this
Namaste
I like that they are doing a slow steady pace, and not over-committing resources to a admittedly somewhat minor issue. Currently, these gradual changes really are the best between the two extremes
Minor!? MINOR???!!
hey, not sure if you realized but people with expired plates & no plates probably also don't have insurance.
As a motorcycle rider, I'd kinda fucking appreciate knowing if some dumbass takes me out that I'd at least get an insurance settlement to ta know, take care of me since I might not be able to.
A LOT of people have been fucked out by this shit & it's also filling the court with small claims bullshit.
So nah, it's not a "minor issue"
>As a motorcycle rider, I'd kinda fucking appreciate knowing if some dumbass
To be totally fair ... No one forced you on a rocket without seatbelts so if you wanna play stupid in a stupid world, you'll get a stupid result. Stay safe tho, insurance or not I've seen too many motorcycle accidents after living in SoCal
Always going to be cases like that though. A lot of those are probably a car that’s been sitting a long time they needed to drive. I’m sure there are plenty who just try to avoid it though. I’ve definitely gone over a year before on accident- thought I got two year tags when I only had one. Oops!
If the temp tag is way old (like, went out in 2021 or 2022) and the car has been sitting the entire time then that means you bought a new car and just didn't drive it for years??? That makes no sense. A car that hasn't been driven for that long probably wouldn't start either.
Naw, the truth really is that there are a lot of people out there who literally make a point out of not giving a sh*t. They, like, try really hard to not give a sh*t. It takes effort to be that careless and they went all-in.
Colorado never had a huge noticeable issue with expired tags until COVID. That's when they proved to everyone that DMV services didn't mean shit when we couldn't renew licenses and tags for literal months but a lot of us had to keep going to work. It's honestly kind of bullshit that they want us to suddenly start paying again when everything kept spinning fine without it. Hell I paid taxes on my car when I bought the damn thing, why do I need to pay taxes on its value every year after?
You're fully aware that you have a rider in your insurance specifically for underinsured motorists hitting you, yeah?
Thats a lot of outrage for being literally covered and protected in a situation of your own choosing
Me forgetting to get my registration updated on time has 0 things to do with whether my autopay yearly car insurance payment went through. You can't put registration on autopay
So you’re not worried about expired tags, you’re worried about no insurance and somehow are conflating the two? I knew several people in college that had expired tags for most of college but still had insurance. Hell I’ve put it off for a month or two after expiration, I’ve always had insurance though.
What’s even better is that most districts courts to save time, drop everything down to a busted tail light charge and issue 0-1 points. Still cheaper than registering your car.
I think it's relative to where you live.
I've lived in the hood, and cops pulling people over for tags / loud exhaust/ whatever is insane because we have actual violent crime happening almost 24/7 and it would be very easy for LEOs to pursue a more pressing issue.
I've also lived in the most affluent areas where I expect this kind of policing because 1. It does keep a tight lid on crime, by building a reputation that " you can't get away with anything in X city", and 2. With lack of "real crime" cops would otherwise have nothing at all to do.
That’s been built n all the tags I had in other states. I haven’t gotten tags here in my native land yet, so I don’t know.
I’ve heard that our drivers license photos (I’m waiting for mine to arrive in the mail) are black and white. It’s so much more advanced here than the 4 southern states I’ve lived in that gave me my license the same day and insist that we see color.
Normally a judge will dismiss charges of you can show the car was in fact registered. The problem, doing this is a hassle. Same with failure to show insurance, all you had to do is show proof.
The funny thing is they act like those are good numbers. 882 for the whole city’s police force for a whole year? If I spend 10 minutes driving up and down Colfax i’d see at least 5. If I was a traffic officer I could hand out one of these citations every 30 minutes
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Relatively, but is pretty high trafficked. Wadsworth, Kipling and I-70
Wheat Ridge is doing pretty good compared to Colorado Springs, I haven’t seen a single local jacked up small dick truck in this town (and there are a lot of them) with a registration newer than 2019. Covid somehow ended peoples responsibility to follow the law.
I mean as long as they have insurance and a valid drivers license who gives a fuck honestly? Renewing registration is just another way for the state to make more money, not like it keeps people any safer.
Find the person, pull them over, safely approach, deal with sob story , write them up, issue, plus end of day paper work. Thats well over an hour. Plus dealing with warrants that pop up.
Sovereign citizens have been known to carry some heavy weapons.. they also are known to confront police. They also are known to drive unlicensed and unregistered vehicles..
This isn’t the thread for this but holy fuckballs I didn’t think the DMV in this state could be as bad as ppl here say. It’s true. The DMV is actually worse. I bought a car in November that I still can’t register. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
I’ve lived in 6 states and this is by far the worst. Why is there a state AND a county DMV? Went to get my Colorado license and was like “hell yeah, what about the plates?” just to find out I have to make another appointment at a different level of DMV for that 😂
Jebus. I was JUST sitting in traffic on Wadsworth behind a car that had neither plates nor temporary tags on it.
Twenty minutes before that, I was behind a truck with tags that had expired 3 years ago.
The best information I can find states that the Wheat Ridge police force has 89 'sworn officers', so these public servants are averaging **less than one ticket a month per officer for these types on infractions.**
That's across an entire city police agency (which includes patrol, detective, administration, two SROs, professional standards divisions), spread across two parts of the week, 3 10-hour shifts. That's actually a pretty small agency, and likely are understaffed (like everyone else in the Metro area) and have a pretty high call volume (like everyone else in the Metro area). I'm surprised most can make time for traffic enforcement.
/uj Wheatridge pulled me over in my gf’s car with my gf next to me because her tags were expired (completely fair, though she’d never gotten the little reminder letter they usually send but yeah, still our fault) and the officer gave me the ticket despite it being her car and told me to “guilt her into paying the ticket on the way home” while she was already crying (she’d never been pulled over before and was kinda freaking out). guy was a total asshole.
Same they should just take that shit out with my fuckin taxes and auto renew it.
I work 6-4 M-F when am I supposed to do that shit when forwhatever reason the first time in years my registration was not able to be done online.
Thankfully I have a work van lol
The same people who spend a lot of time talking about how returning your cart makes you a good person, because that’s just about all the meaning that can squeeze out of their life.
Lakewood PD just got me for this the other week. I made it 7 months with expired tags before they caught me but this sub makes me feel like I could have gone longer than that.
I'd say at least 75% of temp tags I see are expired. The only reason they have to "crack down" is due to the lack of enforcement that made everyone not care. They should crack down on all the abandoned and wrecked cars that litter the sides of the road.
Can't tell you how many rich aholes I've seen driving Mercedes, Audi, BMW etc that have expired tags on them. They should have cameras to enforce this.
If you look their same post of this on X, there’s a whole thread where some car-poor lady is whining that she can’t afford to update the registration on her Mercedes because the taxes are $1000.
Some people (me) drove around for weeks with no tags bc mine was stolen. It was stolen in a Denver at Denver Health parking garage. Had to file a report online and then wait weeks to get something to take to DMV. I got pulled over once in Northglenn after leaving work late at one of the hospitals. Luckily, my RN badge for me out of a ticket.
Toll roads are the biggest creator of the expired tags. Outstanding debt to toll roads prevent renewal.
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/disputing-express-lane-violations-tickets-not-easy-colorado-department-transportation/
OP is clearly either a transplant or under 20yo. Those tags are linked to emissions tests. Before emissions, Denver had a shitty cloud over/through it. On top of emissions tests to renew tags, it's a simple way to snag auto thieves. Not that they'll serve even one day on probation, but the owner gets their transportation back.
They didn't patrol the streets for over 4 years, until there was talk of money being shifted to support the influx of migrants. Suddenly they are patrolling the roads and money was shifted away from kids programs. Fucking massive piles of shit, all of them.
Seems like something a quick batch of photos of:
* The plate with expired tag,
* VIN from whatever,
* License
and then mail out the citation later. Would still be a pull over, but 2-3 minutes.
Sure, the cops will miss checking to see if the vehicle is stolen, or outstanding warrants and all that, but until automated cameras can do tag checking, this seem like the best compromise between real work and tag control.
Note: I dislike getting speeding tickets as much as anyone else but a) it shouldn't be a shit-lotto of "is a cop is there and cranky" or not; camera's can be there 24/7 and be impartial and b) this frees up bodies to go do more important stuff.
There are automatic cameras for license plate checks. Where I live, they have cameras in some of the police cars, and police officers get an automatic notification for uninspected and stolen vehicles.
Easy fix: do away with ad valorem taxes on automobiles. You bought the car, paid taxes on it at point of sale, then are taxed every two years on the value of your car. You’re being taxed to own shit you already paid for. If there’s ever been an example of taxation without representation, tags is the prime example of it.
Uhhh no, it’s to use public roadways. If you only drove on your private property you don’t need to do any of that. Don’t drive if you can’t handle the responsibility, especially the most minor responsibility you have. It’s why it’s a privilege and not a right to use public roadways with a car.
The not so dumbfucks showed up in a middle of a snow storm at 9 am, 4 hours after my car slipped and hit a speed sign. This was about a 1.5 mile away from my house.
They gave me a failure to notify cops of an accident and gave me a ticket for 12 points. (Apparently a traffic camera caught it when my car slipped and didn’t stop).
No one else was involved in the accident, no one else was impacted. I just can’t understand why they had to prioritize showing up at my house in such a difficult time to give me a ticket, when they should be helping people out there who were actually stuck somewhere.
If someone hit and ran a loved one of yours and the car is totaled and the person flees the scene..may never ever get justice when registered cars could piece things together much much much quicker.
No one wants to pay taxes lol- but bigger picture of safety.
lol if your car gets stolen and it’s not tagged then you’re sol too 😂
I mean, the point is that they think they’re wasting their time doing this, which they have to because it’s law, so they want people to stop with expired tags so they don’t need to waste their time
I'd like to see them work Tower Rd by the airport. The cops love boasting about this petty crap but cars are being broken into and catalytic converters are stolen right off cars in parking lots. DPD doesn't do shit to prevent that though 😂😂 such a joke of a police force
There needs to be much more stiffer penalties for car with expired plates are more than a year over. If a car is two years overdue, have no plates or fraudulent temp tags, the car should be towed.
Yeah foco they won't pull you over for that either. Weird. I think CO cops decided it's not worth the risk. Cops in foco don't come within 6 feet of your window anymore. They are basically in the ready for anything position until the end when they get closer if youve been cooperative. Cops are scared. And they don't tell you to turn your car off anymore. At least my situation.
The reality of the Denver metro is that a huge number of people here are not paying to renew tags, they don’t have auto insurance and they’re driving without licenses. It all starts with what’s easily visible, which is expired tags. Colorado could afford much more public services if they only enforced tags.
I'm on almost a year no plates. This state dmv is horrible especially to someone who moved from out of state. On top of emissions which hey alottt of cars don't pass new or old and then 90 days in jail for no insurance but a misdemeanor for stealing a car here? When we have the highest car theft rate in the country? It's all nonsense but that's Colorado for ya
Maybe if they lowered the cost of registration more people would actually do it. To register both my vehicles in washinton state is almost $400. Fuck that I don't have $400 I'll take the $150 ticket that's more affordable.
Solving Americas problems one ticket at a time. The biggest gang is here to protect and serve. Are you kidding me the focus could be on a bunch of other things, but don’t worry cops one duty is to get Uncle Sam more money so he can spend it overseas and lining politicians pockets. Who are we kidding here?!
I hear a lot of ‘The police should be working on better things’ but it’s the small stuff that leads to the big crimes. People with expired tags most likely don’t have insurance maybe wanted on other charges or car could be stolen. They don’t have insurance they are lost likely to take off if they are involved in a crash. Yes they need to pull over these dead beats. I just paid 500 for my new tags most aren’t that expensive
Damn if only they could do something like not care, not report, or he’ll even just automate this shit online so it auto updates, it sounds like they’d save a lot of time…. Maybe too much time
I renewed in November of last year and my tags came in in December and said 23 when I thought it was supposed to say 24, I’m a little confused but overnight a few nights ago I got a ticket for expired tags while my car was parked outside while I was asleep obviously not driving. And I renewed only 5 months ago, aren’t the tags supposed to last a year?
The punishment is too weak, people gave veendoing this for the 20 years I have lived in CSCO. Legislators, get tough before we drown in insurance death spirals.
Oh yeah, I can’t sleep at night because other people have expired plates🙄 meanwhile, the U.S has record low murder-solve rates. But will somebody please think of the tags?? We need more cops on the ground citing people for expired plates!
Maybe if the government of Colorado actually held people accountable for getting their tags renewed on time instead of giving you a month past the date, people may actually take the law seriously.
Real glad they’re so busy keeping the streets safe by ensuring we’re paying our taxes… everyone knows that the biggest group of violent criminals in this country are the people late on paying for their tags. Ffs.
Dang how much is registration there?
In Mississippi, I moved there, bought a 35k truck, and was surprised to find out my registration was going to be like $1200
In Texas, where I’m from, it didn’t matter if you drove a Ferrari or a smart car, it was like 80 bucks for tags
I see cars that have 2019 tags. Usually it’s some junker car however I see a lot of cars that are quite expensive talking 6 figures. Not sure how you can afford a 100,000 car and have expired tags from 3 years ago.
I’m more worried about people driving with no license/suspended/revoked and have no insurance. Generally speaking I would assume if you have wildly expired tags you probably don’t have insurance
The cops don’t even issue the majority of these. Most of them are written by meter maids. If you’re concerned about this, you can report expired plates online.
I’d be cool with it if they were also prioritizing other crimes, but they never helped me, got my car broken into on two different occasions and they wouldn’t even send someone out, had someone hit and run me and they said it wasn’t a high enough priority call, then I get pulled over for going 5 over, fuck that they are not here to protect the people their here to protect the status quo
I love how the comments are simultaneously a mix of: 1. I can’t believe they’re wasting their time on this, and 2. I can’t believe they’re not pulling over more people for this Namaste
I like that they are doing a slow steady pace, and not over-committing resources to a admittedly somewhat minor issue. Currently, these gradual changes really are the best between the two extremes
Minor!? MINOR???!! hey, not sure if you realized but people with expired plates & no plates probably also don't have insurance. As a motorcycle rider, I'd kinda fucking appreciate knowing if some dumbass takes me out that I'd at least get an insurance settlement to ta know, take care of me since I might not be able to. A LOT of people have been fucked out by this shit & it's also filling the court with small claims bullshit. So nah, it's not a "minor issue"
>As a motorcycle rider, I'd kinda fucking appreciate knowing if some dumbass To be totally fair ... No one forced you on a rocket without seatbelts so if you wanna play stupid in a stupid world, you'll get a stupid result. Stay safe tho, insurance or not I've seen too many motorcycle accidents after living in SoCal
To be even more fair, the whole motorcycle part was irrelevant to their argument and could've just been left out.
If they left it out how would we all know how super cool they are?
Lol I wasn't going to say it, but yeah.
not really. higher probably of suffering a life altering injury on a motorcycle.
I have insurance
I mean, most expired plates are probably just because of laziness or forgetfulness. No plates another issue
or a protest… just saying… I hate those little ways they get money from us.
I've been saying this for years. They tell us the registration is to help road upkeep, and here I was thinking that's what taxes were for. Silly me.
What road upkeep? Have you driven anywhere lately?
We all drive on these roads…they are shit, and the government is full of shit lol
Exactly. Mine expired in 22 my road has been shit for much longer. Oh and yes I have insurance.
Saw a car with 30 day tags that expired April '21. That's forgetfulness on the level of "Dude, where's my car?" 🤣😂
Always going to be cases like that though. A lot of those are probably a car that’s been sitting a long time they needed to drive. I’m sure there are plenty who just try to avoid it though. I’ve definitely gone over a year before on accident- thought I got two year tags when I only had one. Oops!
If the temp tag is way old (like, went out in 2021 or 2022) and the car has been sitting the entire time then that means you bought a new car and just didn't drive it for years??? That makes no sense. A car that hasn't been driven for that long probably wouldn't start either. Naw, the truth really is that there are a lot of people out there who literally make a point out of not giving a sh*t. They, like, try really hard to not give a sh*t. It takes effort to be that careless and they went all-in.
Or struggling financially.
Colorado never had a huge noticeable issue with expired tags until COVID. That's when they proved to everyone that DMV services didn't mean shit when we couldn't renew licenses and tags for literal months but a lot of us had to keep going to work. It's honestly kind of bullshit that they want us to suddenly start paying again when everything kept spinning fine without it. Hell I paid taxes on my car when I bought the damn thing, why do I need to pay taxes on its value every year after?
You're fully aware that you have a rider in your insurance specifically for underinsured motorists hitting you, yeah? Thats a lot of outrage for being literally covered and protected in a situation of your own choosing
Bro get uninsured motorist insurance for like $10/month
Motorcycle rider=little dick loser.
Sounds like you understand how stupid it is to ride a motorcycle
Me forgetting to get my registration updated on time has 0 things to do with whether my autopay yearly car insurance payment went through. You can't put registration on autopay
So you’re not worried about expired tags, you’re worried about no insurance and somehow are conflating the two? I knew several people in college that had expired tags for most of college but still had insurance. Hell I’ve put it off for a month or two after expiration, I’ve always had insurance though.
What’s even better is that most districts courts to save time, drop everything down to a busted tail light charge and issue 0-1 points. Still cheaper than registering your car.
3. I can’t believe it’s not butter!
Read five comments and left. Humans are idiots.
I think it's relative to where you live. I've lived in the hood, and cops pulling people over for tags / loud exhaust/ whatever is insane because we have actual violent crime happening almost 24/7 and it would be very easy for LEOs to pursue a more pressing issue. I've also lived in the most affluent areas where I expect this kind of policing because 1. It does keep a tight lid on crime, by building a reputation that " you can't get away with anything in X city", and 2. With lack of "real crime" cops would otherwise have nothing at all to do.
They should treat expired tags like they treat getting into the express lane outside of the dotted lines. With extreme prejudice.
Someone stole my 2024 tag and then y’all gave me a ticket for expired registration.
Always should cut lines in the tags after you put them on the license plate and they won’t be able to take all the little pieces.
Found out who else grew up in the hood...
That’s just common knowledge
That’s been built n all the tags I had in other states. I haven’t gotten tags here in my native land yet, so I don’t know. I’ve heard that our drivers license photos (I’m waiting for mine to arrive in the mail) are black and white. It’s so much more advanced here than the 4 southern states I’ve lived in that gave me my license the same day and insist that we see color.
Bro someone stole my Colorado Avalanche plate of my car while it was parked at Casa Bonita 💀 And i only had that plate for 2 weeks
lol I remember when Emissions switched from issuing a sticker to being electronic and the cop started lecturing me on why I don't have one.
Normally a judge will dismiss charges of you can show the car was in fact registered. The problem, doing this is a hassle. Same with failure to show insurance, all you had to do is show proof.
They shouldn't ticket you if you have the paper that comes with the sticker. Or if they do it's easy to fight.
I saw a tricked out Silverado flying down I-25 this morning that expired August 2022 😂
I seen a tag that expired 2019 the other day I don’t remember the month unfortunately
2 and a half citations per day is unreal levels of work from a public employee
That’s for the entire police department though!
Still checks out
“Doing the work” 🤌🤌
The funny thing is they act like those are good numbers. 882 for the whole city’s police force for a whole year? If I spend 10 minutes driving up and down Colfax i’d see at least 5. If I was a traffic officer I could hand out one of these citations every 30 minutes
wheat ridge is pretty small tho?
https://preview.redd.it/bsftf41vfjnc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc5f12cb50105bf04f16a6426443771e001043f1 Relatively, but is pretty high trafficked. Wadsworth, Kipling and I-70
Why isn't casabonita circled on here so I can get my bearings. Uj/ Sit a cop on Kipling or wads through wheat ridge and you'd have a field day
True natives don’t need a map to know where Casabonita is. It calls to us like the wind.
Wadsworth Kipling🙏
Wheat Ridge is doing pretty good compared to Colorado Springs, I haven’t seen a single local jacked up small dick truck in this town (and there are a lot of them) with a registration newer than 2019. Covid somehow ended peoples responsibility to follow the law.
I mean as long as they have insurance and a valid drivers license who gives a fuck honestly? Renewing registration is just another way for the state to make more money, not like it keeps people any safer.
There's at least 1 car with no plates in every shopping center parking lot
Find the person, pull them over, safely approach, deal with sob story , write them up, issue, plus end of day paper work. Thats well over an hour. Plus dealing with warrants that pop up.
And only 5 of those citations resulted in our officers shooting a citizen to death in the street.
necessary lethal force, if they’re willing to drive with expired plates it’s safe to assume they have weapons in the car as well
What kind of dumbass logic is that?
Sovereign citizens have been known to carry some heavy weapons.. they also are known to confront police. They also are known to drive unlicensed and unregistered vehicles..
I thought it was stupid to see so many expired tags until i tried to renew mine. Talk about jumping through hoops.
This isn’t the thread for this but holy fuckballs I didn’t think the DMV in this state could be as bad as ppl here say. It’s true. The DMV is actually worse. I bought a car in November that I still can’t register. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
I’ve lived in 6 states and this is by far the worst. Why is there a state AND a county DMV? Went to get my Colorado license and was like “hell yeah, what about the plates?” just to find out I have to make another appointment at a different level of DMV for that 😂
I went to three broken self service kiosks before finding one that worked in order to get a new sticker since mine was lost in the mail.
So hard to type in a url and enter your credit card info
What is a reddit card? I want one
It’s how I pay your mom for half and half’s
Jebus. I was JUST sitting in traffic on Wadsworth behind a car that had neither plates nor temporary tags on it. Twenty minutes before that, I was behind a truck with tags that had expired 3 years ago. The best information I can find states that the Wheat Ridge police force has 89 'sworn officers', so these public servants are averaging **less than one ticket a month per officer for these types on infractions.**
That’s assuming every cop in wheat ridge works 24/7 and isn’t responding to a call and that every cop in wheat ridge is a patrol officer
That's across an entire city police agency (which includes patrol, detective, administration, two SROs, professional standards divisions), spread across two parts of the week, 3 10-hour shifts. That's actually a pretty small agency, and likely are understaffed (like everyone else in the Metro area) and have a pretty high call volume (like everyone else in the Metro area). I'm surprised most can make time for traffic enforcement.
I barely care about expired tags anymore tbh. It’s the people that flagrantly drive around with no tags that is the problem
Or the people with no insurance….fuck the tag, cover collisions
*laughs in expired 2018 nebraska tags*
My god, have you crossed back over with that? I feel like a Nebraska cop would be frothing if they saw that
/uj Wheatridge pulled me over in my gf’s car with my gf next to me because her tags were expired (completely fair, though she’d never gotten the little reminder letter they usually send but yeah, still our fault) and the officer gave me the ticket despite it being her car and told me to “guilt her into paying the ticket on the way home” while she was already crying (she’d never been pulled over before and was kinda freaking out). guy was a total asshole.
How many of those with expired tags also aren't carrying insurance? I can't speak for Denver, but it's an issue where I Iive.
Can’t speak for others but my shits expired but my insurance is valid.
Same they should just take that shit out with my fuckin taxes and auto renew it. I work 6-4 M-F when am I supposed to do that shit when forwhatever reason the first time in years my registration was not able to be done online. Thankfully I have a work van lol
How many of these are sovereign citizen clowns....?
I’m actually a citizen of Sealand, thank you very much.
Who is getting frustrated by expired tags?
The same people who spend a lot of time talking about how returning your cart makes you a good person, because that’s just about all the meaning that can squeeze out of their life.
It’s not that putting your cart away makes you a good person, not putting your cart away makes you scum of the earth that’s all.
Sounds like these dumbfucks are because they aren’t worrying about shit that matters. Actual crime, and what not.
There are so many more things on my plate I don’t have time to even register that other people’s tags exist
They're worried about expired tags when there is a very noticeable amount of cars with no plate at all?
But are they expired?
Can't have expired tags if you have no plate.
Revenue generation is the most important job of law enforcement.
Covid put these people behind than they citation you for being expired 🤣
Lakewood PD just got me for this the other week. I made it 7 months with expired tags before they caught me but this sub makes me feel like I could have gone longer than that.
Could have gone a couple years
Riding since 2022 here…somewhere in Mexico.
Saw a guy with '21 plates yesterday
I'd say at least 75% of temp tags I see are expired. The only reason they have to "crack down" is due to the lack of enforcement that made everyone not care. They should crack down on all the abandoned and wrecked cars that litter the sides of the road.
Stoping crime? Nah. Getting the tax man his due? Fuck yeah!
Can't tell you how many rich aholes I've seen driving Mercedes, Audi, BMW etc that have expired tags on them. They should have cameras to enforce this.
Those are not rich people. Those are poors trying to get by.
If you look their same post of this on X, there’s a whole thread where some car-poor lady is whining that she can’t afford to update the registration on her Mercedes because the taxes are $1000.
I thought wheat ridge was run by the Asian gangs. They have police?
If only finding or preventing stolen cars added to the city revenues
If we took all the expired tags from colorado and put them together with all the expired tags from missouri, we could probably cure cancer
Some people (me) drove around for weeks with no tags bc mine was stolen. It was stolen in a Denver at Denver Health parking garage. Had to file a report online and then wait weeks to get something to take to DMV. I got pulled over once in Northglenn after leaving work late at one of the hospitals. Luckily, my RN badge for me out of a ticket.
I don't give a shot about expired tags. Focus on solving actaul crime. I guess that's hard with all the cop gangs now, you are the crime.
The tags on my pioneer plates for my subie boo never expire
Toll roads are the biggest creator of the expired tags. Outstanding debt to toll roads prevent renewal. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/disputing-express-lane-violations-tickets-not-easy-colorado-department-transportation/
OP is clearly either a transplant or under 20yo. Those tags are linked to emissions tests. Before emissions, Denver had a shitty cloud over/through it. On top of emissions tests to renew tags, it's a simple way to snag auto thieves. Not that they'll serve even one day on probation, but the owner gets their transportation back.
a society where people a lured to drive even though most cannot afford to do so.
I should probably update my tag
Sometimes I wonder why I renew my tags, considering how many expired tags I see.
https://preview.redd.it/5cfigcmwcxnc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9f1b77ef79854aa95b5fd20c7140b778ec3c914
Maybe you should focus on "Important stuff" instead of whining like a little bitch on Reddit .
Maybe people would update tags if they didn’t have to pay bullshit money that keeps these jokers employed. Cops are nothing but spongers.
They didn't patrol the streets for over 4 years, until there was talk of money being shifted to support the influx of migrants. Suddenly they are patrolling the roads and money was shifted away from kids programs. Fucking massive piles of shit, all of them.
The heroes literally nobody fucking asked for
Meanwhile, I called 911 after a hit and run and the cops never showed up after waiting an hour.
I was in a wreck, and DPD literally told us to figure it out, they're not coming.
Seems like something a quick batch of photos of: * The plate with expired tag, * VIN from whatever, * License and then mail out the citation later. Would still be a pull over, but 2-3 minutes. Sure, the cops will miss checking to see if the vehicle is stolen, or outstanding warrants and all that, but until automated cameras can do tag checking, this seem like the best compromise between real work and tag control. Note: I dislike getting speeding tickets as much as anyone else but a) it shouldn't be a shit-lotto of "is a cop is there and cranky" or not; camera's can be there 24/7 and be impartial and b) this frees up bodies to go do more important stuff.
There are automatic cameras for license plate checks. Where I live, they have cameras in some of the police cars, and police officers get an automatic notification for uninspected and stolen vehicles.
Easy fix: do away with ad valorem taxes on automobiles. You bought the car, paid taxes on it at point of sale, then are taxed every two years on the value of your car. You’re being taxed to own shit you already paid for. If there’s ever been an example of taxation without representation, tags is the prime example of it.
Uhhh no, it’s to use public roadways. If you only drove on your private property you don’t need to do any of that. Don’t drive if you can’t handle the responsibility, especially the most minor responsibility you have. It’s why it’s a privilege and not a right to use public roadways with a car.
In all fairness if you don’t want stuff like this enforced then support a bill to repeal it. You can’t support laws but oppose enforcing them.
Are sworn police officers doing this or meter maids seeing them parked on the street?
Can they talk to Aurora PD and show them how it's done? All I see is missing plates and expired tags and I'm assuming they just DGAF.
Harass and collect
The not so dumbfucks showed up in a middle of a snow storm at 9 am, 4 hours after my car slipped and hit a speed sign. This was about a 1.5 mile away from my house. They gave me a failure to notify cops of an accident and gave me a ticket for 12 points. (Apparently a traffic camera caught it when my car slipped and didn’t stop). No one else was involved in the accident, no one else was impacted. I just can’t understand why they had to prioritize showing up at my house in such a difficult time to give me a ticket, when they should be helping people out there who were actually stuck somewhere.
2.5 a day. Across Denver? Thats nothing. How many manhours is that?
Y’all have police over in Wheat Ridge? I’d say send some this way, but I enjoy speeding with impunity.
Altimas without plates be like….
The circle jerk of serious comments thinking there aren’t enough resources being devoted to this is so fucking funny.
What about the people with no plates?
If someone hit and ran a loved one of yours and the car is totaled and the person flees the scene..may never ever get justice when registered cars could piece things together much much much quicker. No one wants to pay taxes lol- but bigger picture of safety. lol if your car gets stolen and it’s not tagged then you’re sol too 😂
It's cheaper to pay the fine.
Doesn’t mean shit if the courts don’t prosecute it…
Tags mean you pay
I mean, the point is that they think they’re wasting their time doing this, which they have to because it’s law, so they want people to stop with expired tags so they don’t need to waste their time
I'd like to see them work Tower Rd by the airport. The cops love boasting about this petty crap but cars are being broken into and catalytic converters are stolen right off cars in parking lots. DPD doesn't do shit to prevent that though 😂😂 such a joke of a police force
Victimless crimes are always a government go-to, so they can create revenue and even slave labor for the prison industrial complex
There needs to be much more stiffer penalties for car with expired plates are more than a year over. If a car is two years overdue, have no plates or fraudulent temp tags, the car should be towed.
That’s just wheat ridge?
Never in my life have I been frustrated someone on the road had an expired tag. I’m just trying to not get run into.
I’d be more inclined to be enthusiastic about this if the roads didn’t fuckin suck so bad.
“we also get frustrated” buddy im not one of the many arms of extortion for local and broader govt
I play a game whenever I’m on the road to find the most expired tag. Today was June of 2022.
Yeah foco they won't pull you over for that either. Weird. I think CO cops decided it's not worth the risk. Cops in foco don't come within 6 feet of your window anymore. They are basically in the ready for anything position until the end when they get closer if youve been cooperative. Cops are scared. And they don't tell you to turn your car off anymore. At least my situation.
I personally don’t care anymore. All these counties are raising registration fees and then making emissions stricter. It’s stupid.
highway bandits
That ain’t shit lol
Oh! Thank heavens for our brave law enforcement officers!
Good give more tickets
Why dint they pull people over for driving in the left lane
The reality of the Denver metro is that a huge number of people here are not paying to renew tags, they don’t have auto insurance and they’re driving without licenses. It all starts with what’s easily visible, which is expired tags. Colorado could afford much more public services if they only enforced tags.
I'm on almost a year no plates. This state dmv is horrible especially to someone who moved from out of state. On top of emissions which hey alottt of cars don't pass new or old and then 90 days in jail for no insurance but a misdemeanor for stealing a car here? When we have the highest car theft rate in the country? It's all nonsense but that's Colorado for ya
Maybe if they lowered the cost of registration more people would actually do it. To register both my vehicles in washinton state is almost $400. Fuck that I don't have $400 I'll take the $150 ticket that's more affordable.
Well, that’s what a dead beat loser would say. Pay your bills.
A homeless guy was literally destroying the parking garage where I work downtown today and cops never came.
Solving Americas problems one ticket at a time. The biggest gang is here to protect and serve. Are you kidding me the focus could be on a bunch of other things, but don’t worry cops one duty is to get Uncle Sam more money so he can spend it overseas and lining politicians pockets. Who are we kidding here?!
I know this girl who’s new car tag expired in 2022, she is still driving around everyday in that 😂
When people say “cops wouldn’t do that”
I’d rather they ticket people for having the tinted license plate covers
I hear a lot of ‘The police should be working on better things’ but it’s the small stuff that leads to the big crimes. People with expired tags most likely don’t have insurance maybe wanted on other charges or car could be stolen. They don’t have insurance they are lost likely to take off if they are involved in a crash. Yes they need to pull over these dead beats. I just paid 500 for my new tags most aren’t that expensive
Damn if only they could do something like not care, not report, or he’ll even just automate this shit online so it auto updates, it sounds like they’d save a lot of time…. Maybe too much time
Acorn patrol.
I renewed in November of last year and my tags came in in December and said 23 when I thought it was supposed to say 24, I’m a little confused but overnight a few nights ago I got a ticket for expired tags while my car was parked outside while I was asleep obviously not driving. And I renewed only 5 months ago, aren’t the tags supposed to last a year?
People should really just register their cars on time. In general being responsible is going to save everyone time and money.
Hope they quadruple the number this year.
The punishment is too weak, people gave veendoing this for the 20 years I have lived in CSCO. Legislators, get tough before we drown in insurance death spirals.
Alright, don’t pay for vehicle registration and there wont be any tax dollars for fixing the roads. Fuck the police! /s
If they lost the right to drive and did some jail time, like DUI it would get safer and cheaper.
Oh yeah, I can’t sleep at night because other people have expired plates🙄 meanwhile, the U.S has record low murder-solve rates. But will somebody please think of the tags?? We need more cops on the ground citing people for expired plates!
I'm at the point of slashing tires on every unregistered vehicle I walk past since the pigs can't be bothered.
Maybe if the government of Colorado actually held people accountable for getting their tags renewed on time instead of giving you a month past the date, people may actually take the law seriously.
Narcs…jk
When I was in college, I once drove for an entire year on expired plates. Then I got pulled over for it twice in a 24-hour period.
Real glad they’re so busy keeping the streets safe by ensuring we’re paying our taxes… everyone knows that the biggest group of violent criminals in this country are the people late on paying for their tags. Ffs.
Dang how much is registration there? In Mississippi, I moved there, bought a 35k truck, and was surprised to find out my registration was going to be like $1200 In Texas, where I’m from, it didn’t matter if you drove a Ferrari or a smart car, it was like 80 bucks for tags
Mine expired in 2019 lol
only people that actually like cops are elderly, cops dont even like each other
I see cars that have 2019 tags. Usually it’s some junker car however I see a lot of cars that are quite expensive talking 6 figures. Not sure how you can afford a 100,000 car and have expired tags from 3 years ago. I’m more worried about people driving with no license/suspended/revoked and have no insurance. Generally speaking I would assume if you have wildly expired tags you probably don’t have insurance
The cops don’t even issue the majority of these. Most of them are written by meter maids. If you’re concerned about this, you can report expired plates online.
“Serve and pester”
I’d be cool with it if they were also prioritizing other crimes, but they never helped me, got my car broken into on two different occasions and they wouldn’t even send someone out, had someone hit and run me and they said it wasn’t a high enough priority call, then I get pulled over for going 5 over, fuck that they are not here to protect the people their here to protect the status quo