nhannah

I listen to Adam Carolla's podcast a lot and he is always bitching about the LAPD handing out chicken-shit tickets. Specifically parking, J-walking, and speeding tickets. But he points out that LA has the highest hit and run % in the country by a long-shot and claims this is due to all the illegals driving without insurance that the LAPD doesn't pull over in their junkers because they know they won't every pay the tickets. He also claims the illegals who sell flowers on the road and liter everywhere don't catch any slack either. My question is two fold than. One- Is this true? Two- If so why is it that it is more important to raise funds from people already paying taxes than to keep streets clean and safe. I find the second bit to happen all over the country (police more interested in traffic tickets than crime despite cars being able to travel safely above 100mph nowadays) but is it more prevalent in LA, and regardless why is it acceptable? Adam also tells a story of a drunk driver plowing into his house and the LAPD never showing up because that was low priority, but he said tickets are handed out all the time for BS?

Hi, thanks for taking your time to answer questions.

Have you seen this piece from vice? http://www.vice.com/video/on-hold . I think it painted a very bad picture of the trans community as it made me feel as though much of what people are fighting for is free money for surgery, not rights. Carried down to the US (it's about Canada), do you think this is an underlying goal in the trans rights movement here? By that I mean that all the goals of legal recognition are really more about building to a court case involving insurance companies, and not actual social acceptance? Or do you think the US movement is more sincere and not working to a monetary endgame?