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Central Falls Police Collecting on Past Due Tickets and Fines
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Monday, Jun 22 at 3:09 PM tuff times wrote ...
wow....this is so sad!! That America is going downhill!I always use to think that America is a place to dream,achieve and succeed! i'm loosing my faith..Obama is talking about help but i dont see it...the bridje "rodes" are being fix, and we got homeless people outhere living under the bridges that faught for our COUNTRY....what is going on here? we need to support America! and mind our own buziness....HELP US FRIST BEFORE WE HELP OTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GOOD LUCK AMERICA!!!
24243792Sunday, Jun 21 at 10:24 PM NWO wrote ...
9:31 PM Anonymous wrote ...This is messed up _______________ Yeah I know. Some people have no respect for the law and police.
24213077Sunday, Jun 21 at 9:31 PM Anonymous wrote ...
This is messed up
24211547Sunday, Jun 21 at 2:28 PM starsky wrote ...
so this is what ahappened to starsky and hutch and read and molly trying to collect fines nothing better to do in central falls, did they call ins while walking around and take notes of the high immigration who cant speak enlgish or refuse to speak it?
24201199Sunday, Jun 21 at 2:27 PM bummer man wrote ...
wow what a bunch of children pay your tickets
24201109Sunday, Jun 21 at 2:17 PM LYNDA wrote ...
THE ADD SAYS ARRESTED.. AND COLLECTING FINES OWED... IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE $$ THAN OBVIOUSLY THE ONES ARRESTED DID SPEND THE NIGHT IN JAIL... WASTING MORE CITY/STATE MONEY. I DOUBT THIS IS GOING TO SOLVE THE MONEY PROBLEMS, OR RESOLVE MONIES OWED TO CITY/STATE. NOT TO MENTION HOW MUCH DID IT COST FOR THE PATROL OFFICERS THAT NIGHT/EVENING?
24200854Sunday, Jun 21 at 10:13 AM Jay wrote ...
A warning? You want police to send a letter that says "remember that ticket you got and didn't pay? you remember how on the back of the ticket it said that if you didn't pay or go to court to contest it that an arrest warrant would be issued? Guess what? It actually happened! We will be going door-to-door throughout the town on 6-20-09 to arrest people who haven't paid. Thanks." And tough financial crimes are irrelavant. Don't do the crime with you can't do the time (fine).
24193579Sunday, Jun 21 at 2:44 AM Anonymous wrote ...
Don't you know that the city has a lot of extra cash to sent not one, but TWO officers out to collect a debt. Lets compare the cost of a ticket to the cost of sending these officers out. Are they doing it as overtime?
24187397Sunday, Jun 21 at 12:59 AM R Howard warwick wrote ...
Ok heres the deal yes they owe fines, yes they should pay, heres where it gets crazy they are arrested and booked then go to court owe more fines and here the leagle system has to pay thousands for housing intil court date or so so and that puts a strain on the leagle system finacialy here we go again
24186192Sunday, Jun 21 at 12:19 AM Anonymous wrote ...
Wow! This is messed up. What will arresting these people solve? They will still own the city/state money if they go to jail. What is it a few days or months, after that now what, huh? Go to them with warning, because sending or calling notice won't work then if they don't pay up then jail
24185507Saturday, Jun 20 at 11:07 PM Anonymous wrote ...
Hello??? If you got the ticket, pay the ticket - all of you claim that the PD collecting tickets in this tough time is ridiculous, If someone owed you money, wouldnt you want it? Especially if YOU were in tough financial times...
24183857Saturday, Jun 20 at 6:33 PM sullyjd@yahoo.com wrote ...
I bet when the residents seen the cops: first thought: immigration and the dope dealers all flush their wares!! Good,Good,Good!!!!
24177464Saturday, Jun 20 at 6:04 PM Anonymous wrote ...
Cherie, actually none of those arrested were held or put through our state court system because they are only unpaid fines. So therefore no state money was wasted. However, the roundup did save the homeowners of Central Falls from possible increased taxes. Plus I've gotten a ticked before, the warnings are right on the ticket. Try it in providence and watch your car get booted. Give me a break people.
24176519Saturday, Jun 20 at 4:35 PM Jay wrote ...
Its about time. Every police department should be doing this (do this). Cherie and mt, they had multiple warnings. The ticket that they got with the option to pay or go to court was warning 1. When they no showed in court and didn't pay and the arrest warrant was issued war warning 2. Hell, if the state troopers did this we'd close our budget defict in less than a week.
24173739Saturday, Jun 20 at 3:06 PM derick wildstar wrote ...
and many cops wonder why so many hate them? first west warwick p.d. killed a mental patent now this.
24171387Saturday, Jun 20 at 10:25 AM vrodylandah wrote ...
It is actually standard procedure to eventually make an arrest in the case of outstanding fees or fines that are overdue. What is unusual and probably inappropriate is the Central Falls' department's seemingly arbitrary enforcement of the law; if they were willing to launch this 'crackdown', one has to speculate as to the reasons that they let all of these fines go unpaid so long. I think Cherie is correct, that in good faith the department should have sent a warning.
24162877Saturday, Jun 20 at 9:06 AM mt.l wrote ...
people loseing jobs left and right, money to feed family,shelter, now police are going door to door for ticket money! HEY THANK YOU MR BUSH AND MR CHANEY.
24160752Saturday, Jun 20 at 12:35 AM Cherie wrote ...
The officer stated these individuals may have forgotten they had tickets or the economy may have affected their ability to pay. In response officers went door to door arresting citizens (in one of the poorest communities) for non-payment. Is this a community response? Wouldn’t it had been better to send a warning of the police department’s intent before costing the State more money for housing these individuals and putting them through the court system, and away from their families and jobs.
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