Chicago Mayor Introduces Major Reforms to Punitive Vehicle Impound Program – Reason

Last April, the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, filed a civil rights lawsuit against Chicago, alleging that the city's impound scheme violates the Illinois and U.S. Constitution's protections against excessive fines and unreasonable seizures, as well as due process protections.
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debtsor
6 years ago

It’s about time. These stupid things make living in Chicago ridiculous.
But on the other hand, if you can reform the system to stop the outlying injustices, what about the rest of the cases? How do you make people pay a few hundred dollars in parking and red light tickets if CRUSHING THEIR VEHICLE FOR SCRAP isn’t enough? You can’t have your license suspended, now you can’t impound their vehicle, they won’t even use the state comptroller to collect them anymore. IS THERE ANY WAY TO MAKE PEOPLE PAY THEIR TICKETS FOR VIOLATING THE LAW?

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