Connecticut allows towing companies to sell some people’s cars after just 15 days — one of the shortest windows in the country.
The sales have particularly affected low-income people, who have lost jobs after they were unable to get their cars back.
We’re investigating towing practices in #Connecticut, where companies can sell people’s cars after just 15 days. If you’ve been affected, we want to hear from you.
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@ProPublica @StillIRise1963 The rich hoard all the money and anyone left standing exploits everyone & everything leftover.
It's a class war, and the rich are the ones conducting it. It's time we realize that the current money system isn't for us, and stop playing by their rules.
As a New Hampshire resident, I can tell you a car is a liability/burden during snowstorms. If you happen to be in hospital, or otherwise engaged- such as working- when the snowstorm hits, you get your car towed. Then the local municipalities just keep raising their towing fines instead of opening new parking lot locations for snowstorms.
You have to get up at 7 AM, regardless of your work schedule, and walk all the way down to the designated lot to retrieve your car. It's gross.
@ProPublica Where there's prey there are predators. One of the roles of government is to protect its citizens from predators. #Connecticut has failed miserably in this task.
@ProPublica The much deeper problem is much uglier: Generally speaking, Connecticut just hates the working class, and mistreats them. I've spent decades trying to press reforms in CT-DMV, with very little success. This is no accident, no oversight. This is just the culture of Connecticut government: Go be poor somewhere else, loser. It's shameful.
@ProPublica @jacobcoffin
As they steal homeless people’s possessions in #Vancouver (tents with ID and only family photos, etc)
I always think that going to a wealthy neighbourhood and finding someone who had maybe misfiled some paperwork,
Cops and workers seizing and ransacking their house and emptying everything into a dumpster and carting it off, would put a quick stop to the practice
Any time it is legal for one group of people to do something that most people are prohibited by law from doing, that looks like #policing to me.
Tow trucks that steal cars are cops.
A tow company in CT can sell your car 15 days after it tows it? Who knew CT's legislature was in the bag for tow truck companies?
It must take nearly that long to figure out who towed it, where it was being held, how much it would cost to get it back, make payment and get the right paperwork. The rate of return must be astronomical. This is the state version of heinous civil forfeiture rules.
You guys are fantastic. Thank you for all you do