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Originally Posted by Traum
At the risk of sounding like a one trick pony, I think a viable and necessary thing to do is for as many people to submit an official service and policy complaint to the OPCC as well as our elected politicians regarding the inherent unfairness of the VI system.
The flaws of the system is well known:
- vehicle owners can be tangibly penalized (from incurring the cost of inspection) based on nothing more than mere suspicion from the police
- essentially, vehicle owners are assumed to be guilty until proven innocent, and we must prove that innocence with our own money; this is completely at odds with the presumption of innocence that is fundamental to our legal system
- there is no recourse to recoup the financial loss if we are shown to be innocent
- even if a vehicle owner has proven his innocence (with a passing VI), the same owner can be caught in a never-ending cycle of additional VIs since the police can write you up another VI again based on his own suspicions. And as before, there is no need for him to prove anything.
- more commonly, subsequent VIs will also be accompanied by either an additional ticket for failing to comply with the previous VI and/or having your plates taken away
I am hoping to wrap up my initial complaint on camber and vehicle lowering soon, and it seems like looking into the unfairness of the VI system should be something for me to try next. I can see some strong arguments on a VI complaint, but again, I really can't do it alone. We need numbers to flood the complaints channel because the authorities and police boards respond to numbers. That is how they work.
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any chance you can write a generalised email of the unfairness in the VI system so that any concerned member of the public can just copy+paste and send off the same email to authorities (tbh I'm not sure who to send if off to... someone help me here please)
technically speaking this way even people who have not received a VI can voice up their concerns as a member of the general public.
even if you haven't gotten a VI, or drive a completely stock economical car (like civics, corollas, prius, etc.) you can still be a concerned member of the public that "fears" being pulled over for unfair / unjust VI tickets (like having compliant steelies winter rims+tires put on by the dealer) which makes you "eligible" to send off such an email anyway. (basically so anyone can send off such an email to generate more noise)
also this way we're not purposely targeting a specific officer (even though anecdotal evidence shows that it's mainly a few of them), but for more effective noise / publicity, it's probably better to not target / name officers (in my opinion at least)
not sure how well this would work... can someone chime in please?