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if you draw a paycheck in NV and take advantage of the "NO STATE INCOME TAXES" then you need a NV license and you will probably excape for quite some time....but SOMEWHERE, SOMEONE will get tired of you living next door to them and working here and keeping your out of state plates [because you're too cheap to go to DMV] and they'll drop a dime on you. I [of course] would NEVER do that.....
It's all a total bunch of absolute crap. They can't force anyone to change their plates and/or license. It's the Nevada way of trying to squeeze more money out of the people that live/work there just to feed the corruption.
I recently returned to my home state after living and working there for a little more than five months. Prior to taking up 'residence' there, I read all the garbage on here about having to change plates etc, and I willingly chose to risk it after seeing all the out of state plates at the garage for the place I was working. (Union construction working on the strip). Why the h*ll should I have to legally become a resident of LV by changing my plate and DL just because I am uprooted from my home state to continue working??
It's total crap.
Las Vegas should feel lucky that they have thousands of people TEMPORARILY living there, pumping millions into the economy, buying your gas, fueling your utilities, paying for your liquor, dropping their paychecks at the casinos.
It's a racket what the police do, targeting out of state drivers. But then again, Las Vegas is a racket in and of itself.
I can see if someone was RELOCATING permanantly to Vegas, but thousands of people have left homes, wives, husbands, and children in their home state to go and work there. That does not constitute becoming a resident.
Here's a new slogan for the tourism industry: Visit Las Vegas - The Trailer Park of the West! It's like you've never even left home!!!!
Just my 2 cents.....
Best post I read on here since I joined. Too bad it just now popped up on my list. 100 REPs or as many as this forum will let me give you my friend.
Use the words in the statue and you wont get a ticket. What I am talking about is the people like this.
"Good morning sir/ma'am"
"Hey. I'm sorry. I'm just in a hurry to get to work."
"I noticed you have out of state plates"
"yeah I just moved here"
"Oh yeah? Welcome to Las Vegas. How long have you been here?"
"Almost 3 months"
"Oh? Well were you planning on registering your car in Nevada?"
"yeah, but I was going to wait for these to run out"
"Well, sir/ma'am, let me explain something to you."
Add any number of expletives and rude comments thrown in my direction and you have a typical traffic stop. 99% of the people are not seasonal, they are not visiting. In fact, most tell me they were in a hurry to get to work as soon as I walk up to the car because they think they were speeding. I don't care you were speeding, I don't even have radar in my car.
It will not go to federal court, because I work for the City of North Las Vegas (not the State of Nevada, we are dealing with a state law and a city law attached to it) and our Police Chief has given us permission to do just that.
I read all the puke I can stand from your silly little laws. Let me ask you something since no one else did or dared to.
Is having an out of state plate endangering the public? You have sworn to protect the public have you not? So why are you and all your other kind NOT sitting at intersections stopping people for running the red light? Why? Why? You know damn well that Las Vegas has 10 of the top 30 most dangerous intersections in the entire USA. More traffic deaths here then anyplace else. Is this not more important then stopping people for having out of state plates? No one here will deny any of us can sit watching an intersection for just 10 minutes out of the day and count perhaps 20 cars running a standing red every 10 minutes. Not yellow but a standing red light.
Have you ever driven through the intersection of Sunset and Eastern? Since I have business in that mall I get to watch what goes on there for several hours out of a day. In 3 years I have never ever seen one copper watching that intersection. Never. Come to think of it, the most dangerous intersection on earth is supposidly Sahara and Decater or Trop and Koval. I heard on the Dick Traffic reports you were there one time I think it was 2 years ago now.
You all love license plate violations so much? Start pulling over all these cars with NO license plates. You know damn well the chances are near 100% that if they have no plates then they have no regisration or insurance. You are not allowed to pull them over are you. I have had some customers who are cops. They tell me the same thing. You are not allowed to pull over Mexicans for fear they will cry and sue for discrimination and profiling.
Your entire system is screwed up and backwards here. None of you have any sense of priority.
I have one for you. I pick up the wife every day from work. She works in a store on a corner lot at a red light. (notice how I call it a red light rather then a traffic light because it is never green, but that is not your fault but rather our lovely useless traffic planners) Quite a few people dont want to wait at the light to make a right turn so they cut through the parking lot. Im sitting there and nearly every day a bike cop sits in there on private property grabbing every one of them sometimes having 3-4-5 cars lined up waiting to be extored from their hard earned money. Yet right behind this copper 200' away are cars blatantly running standing red lights. What's wrong with you people?
I call the police non-emergency number to report an abandanded car left in front of my house. I get a recording saying they are closed. I call dispatch to report a party and a loud live band at midnight and she asks me what kind of music it is. In other words are they Mexican at which point no cop will ever come. My neighbor had his SUV stolen. They told her police do not take reports or investigate car theft but to come down to the station to fill out a report. Oh do I have stories.
What the hell are you people doing? Is your job to protect and serve or to extort and shake down innocent peons....oops I mean citizens? Never mind. We already know the answer to that one. And dont put out a hit on me for speaking up. We also know how you all love to shoot us unarmed peons.
I a word to your answer your question....YES. By not paying your DMV fees, you are keeping money from my department that could be used to better help. You are keeping money from my schools that could better teach. You are keeping money from my jails that could better rehabilitate. While I respect your opinion, I find it flawed. That is my opinion. But we all know about opinions...
The grudge you have for police and the jobs we do is common in this valley. But believe me, I do care, I take my oath VERY seriously. Please educate yourself on this issue and you will achieve that enlightenment you are searching for. The money from citations does not even come back to the department, it can't, that is a conflict of interest and federal law won't allow it.
I a word to your answer your question....YES. By not paying your DMV fees, you are keeping money from my department that could be used to better help. You are keeping money from my schools that could better teach. You are keeping money from my jails that could better rehabilitate. While I respect your opinion, I find it flawed. That is my opinion. But we all know about opinions...
The grudge you have for police and the jobs we do is common in this valley. But believe me, I do care, I take my oath VERY seriously. Please educate yourself on this issue and you will achieve that enlightenment you are searching for. The money from citations does not even come back to the department, it can't, that is a conflict of interest and federal law won't allow it.
Opinions are just that, opinions. I spoke facts. Everyone in this valley knows the incompetence of your white elephant government agency. Everyone. Including those who still love this place.
Do you really really really believe all that money goes where it is suppose to? If so I suppose you believe everything your govt tells you.
Your only answer to me is to educate myself? Mister I have more education then you can shake a stick at. My business took me far far further then any 6 month police academy.
Enough of that......
I was at least hoping for your ideas on why the imbalance of what you guys feel is important when it is not. Are you just going for the easy money? Your lack of response to the red light runners shows without any doubt the degree in which your dept places importance.
To us peons: Ready for another quarter % sales tax so they can all give themselves big fat raises even before the ink dries on the new law? Disgusting !
What agency are you speaking of? Incompetence? Look at the crime figures for North Las Vegas and tell me we are incompetent. Drops in crime every year. That sounds like we are doing our jobs. You are still alive? We did something right. So what if you have to sit at a red light.
So your a little upset with the government, aren't we all? But most of us deal with it in a mature manner instead of degrading someone else's hard work.
Your comments are bordering on a personal attack. Do not for a second think that this Boyd Law School student (you played the education card, not me. There is a HUGE difference between book smarts and common sense, the latter of which I was referring) is ignorant to the governments flaws. But I challenge you to find a system in this world that is better............ Times up. Couldn't? Didn't think so. Corruption? Ok. If it makes you sleep better at night, pretend you are the victim. People like you just want something to complain about and enjoy scapegoating. Or band wagoning, its up to you on that one. I work my ass off to make it so you can believe that your opinions are facts. You spoke no facts. You spoke of circumstancual encounters with the law, or lack there of in your particular case. Truth be told, we cannot be everywhere at once. I seriously doubt that the new law will get passed for the sales tax, but even if it does, so what. That will affect Metro, not me.
2 more semesters and I will have my Juris Doctorate and then I can help you in you vendetta against the so called "corrupt" government. But I won't.
You are right that you can not be in 2 places at once. But you can be in places more likely for a real crime to be. That was much of my point that you ignored.
Why dont you, I say you but I mean the policy of the dept, bother with red light runners? Why do you bother people cutting through a parking lot when others next to you are running lights? Why dont you respond to car thefts? Why do you hide in an industrial zone on a sunday morning giving out tickets for anything over 25 when there are people doing 90 on the highway? Why dont you respond period.
In a post some time ago I said that I witnessed the ex-Mayors home being ransacked and robbed. I took some heat for it by the usual Vegas defenders. The point is I called and the cops took 45 minutes to come and while the dispatcher continued to talk to me and called me back several times, she showed care. More then I can say for the single patrol car who ignored my waving arms while he talked about girls to the security guard.
Last October I just left my home and saw 2 guys pulling the copper wire from the light pole. I passed without looking and pulled over and called 911. She seemed concerned. Then the guys took off and I gave chase. She told me not to get hurt so stop chasing them. She then asked me what the license plate was. I said those people are illegals and dont get license plates. She seemed to lose interest. I know you are not allowed to stop them. I gave up the chase after several minutes because it was getting too dangerous. I drove around the area for 15 minutes looking for the white 95 Chevy Blazer. No cop ever came. That is sickening.
Again.....Im not pointing directy at you but rather the policies of the big white elephant you must follow. It is all wrong. None of you seem to care.
I and several neighbors submitted a service request for our street to be patroled for the drag racers. The city refuses to put stop signs on some of our cross streets. I as well as many of the neighbors are sick of rescuing people from accidents, right on my very corner. No one listens. Some of you would rather sit in hiding in the store parking lot catching people cutting through.
I like how the police officer in question got really defensive when he posted the actual laws. He then followed that up by saying, "That's exactly what I said on Page 2! Maybe you should learn to read!" (I love police officers because they work a tough job, but have you EVER ran in to a police officer who admitted he was wrong? Lord, no. And you won't find it here.)
As for being wrong, the police officer, among other things, claimed that students were not exempt, but he was being nice not to ticket them.
Turns out students are exempt.
I'm sure you're a nice guy, and hopefully a good cop, but don't be the jackass who writes tickets to a beurocracy -- that's not what this country needs at all. The last thing we need is more red tape.
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