We have to call it like it is, folks. Scott Walker (and Robin Vos, of course) loosed a plague on Milwaukee.
Fox6 ran a long story about 'revoked' and 'suspended' drivers--people who are driving without a license. In the five years between 2018-2023, Milwaukee cops alone nabbed 27,000 of them. That's 5,000 ++ tickets/year.
These perps were arrested not because of a revoked- or suspended- license. Nope. They were nabbed for other serious traffic violations such as speed, ignoring a red light, reckless, or failure to pay the fine for the last driving-while-not-licensed violation.....you get the picture.
They go right back to driving without a license.
Why?
...It hasn't always been this way. Prior to 1997, it was a misdemeanor to operate a motor vehicle with a suspended or revoked license. Repeat offenses escalated into felonies. But retired municipal judge Jim Gramling said that system was a mess....
Jim Gramling is a notorious bleeding-heart Lefty. Keep that in mind.
...In 1995, Governor Tommy Thompson appointed Gramling to a statewide task force that recommended a major change in state law. It made operating while suspended a traffic ticket, but it left driving while revoked a crime.
"You get revoked for more serious reasons," Gramling said.
In 2011, state lawmakers went a step further, reducing the penalty for operating while revoked as well. Now, it's only a crime if the underlying reason your license was revoked was for driving drunk. That created a loophole in state law, which is illustrated by a traffic stop in March 2023 when Ward was clocked at 73 miles per hour in a 35 mile per hour zone....
Scott Walker was Governor and Robin Vos ran the Legislature in 2011.
Thanks, boys!!
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