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Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.

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Is Automated Enforcement Making U.S. Cities Safer or Just Raising Revenue? — Streetsblog USA (usa.streetsblog.org)

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[–] grue 5 points 8 months ago

In the UK we have a points system and if you get enough points you lose your licence and have to reapply. This was introduced because the wealthy didn't really care about getting tickets if it was just a small (relative to their wealth) fine. You can get points for any automatic fines from speeding, running red lights, illegal U-turns, etc, plus any court issued fines.

In the US we also have a points system, which means that the wealthy hire lawyers for traffic offenses to plea-bargain them down to zero-point ones.

Also, criminal offenses can only be charged by a human (because the accused has the right to confront their accuser and there's nobody to confront if it's a machine), so the automated systems only ever issue civil "infractions" with no points.