AURORA | Aurora Police and other local law enforcement agencies are targeting unregistered vehicles and expired license plates, according to a Wednesday news release from the department.
The campaign is slated to begin Sunday and run through July 1 and includes APD and the Arapahoe, Adams and Douglas County sheriff’s offices.
“Officers will be on the lookout and ticketing motorists driving vehicles that are unregistered or significantly expired by more than three months,” the release said. “The fine for driving on tags that are expired by 60 or more days or for driving on an expired temporary permit is $93, according to state law.”
Police say the advance notice gives motorists a few days to make good on missing registration and expired plates. Information about vehicle registration is available online at dmv.colorado.gov/registration.
Isn’t it racist to stop people for minor violations and doesn’t it discriminate against people of color. Isn’t that part of the narrative? When a black person who is stopped decides to run or resist and something bad happens, won’t the police have a problem because the person got hurt over a minor violation. That is why the traffic enforcement stopped in the first place. Have we changed our minds and decided to enforce some laws? Who will back the police when someone runs or resists?
All the counties should get together and make this a statewide campaign. I see at least one hundred expired plates every day in my travels. Saw two that expired in 2019 just this morning. Maybe some of the money that is collected could go toward fixing our deplorable city streets.
APD News Flash “From June 25 to July 1, we’ll be on the lookout for unregistered vehicles and expired registrations. If you’re stopped by us, it could result in a $93 ticket, on top of late fees assessed by the state.”
Great- watch this real get- tough go-get-em concept… a whole one week of enforcement. No doubt problem solved. Some great crime fighting… WTF?
Wow- seven full days the city is willing to inform us they are going to enforce a law. And this is to catch up to several years of their not doing their job. Why bother for the rest of us to renew our tags? This is so freaking disrespectful to those of us that share the road and keep up to this car ownership obligation. Who’s idea for a measly seven days? Something APD is hired to do -what a city hall shit show!
There’s no incentive to register your car. Do I regularly renew my registration costing me potentially hundreds of dollars depending on what you drive or do I risk a $93 ticket? The incentive might come from the lack of insurance, how can you have valid insurance on a car that isn’t registered to you? I doubt that my insurance company would be willing to insure a car for me that isn’t mine.
My insurance covers my liability no matter what car I drive. When you rent a car you have to show proof that you have liability insurance. If I have an accident driving my friend’s or my uncle’s car, I am still covered. My uncle or friend still should have insurance on their car to cover damages should someone else be at fault and not have insurance, but the liability part is on me when I am driving. Check with your own insurance.
Are police not alwaystopping motorists when they observexpired license plates – unless police have a more important assignment to get to?
Suspecthat most violations are owners who simply forgoto renew theiregistrations.
Expired plates is quite obvious from behind. Doubthat anyone would try to get away with it.
I hope we get a report as to how many offenders were actually fined, although I don’t believe this “enforcement” will deter people from not renewing their registrations in the future. Next, how about moving on to pulling over those who think our streets are their personal racetracks? An expired license plate doesn’t kill, but speeding can.
Mr. Cadeau- you are either trying to be nice or are unrealistic about scofflaws. Plate renewals fund road repairs, above all things, and BOY do we need those. Mr. Black- OBEYING laws of where you live has nothing to do with race.
My guess is that people with expired plates also may be driving on expired or revoked licenses. It is a choice they make to not pay certain bills promptly. Hoping there is lots of enforcement and money collect goes to a useful purpose.