The Portland Bureau of Transportation has a $32 million shortfall in their budget and are looking to fill it by more parking enforcement and tickets for expired tags.

“Out of the 1 million vehicles registered in Portland, there are an estimated 460,000 that are eligible for renewal,” PBOT Director Millicent Williams told KOIN 6 News.

That’s right — nearly half of drivers in the region have expired license plates.

Who would have thought? When you make it state law that it is illegal for police to pull over cars for minor traffic infractions (Oregon Senate Bill 1510) and a city that has officially advised police to no longer enforce traffic laws, who would have thought that traffic deaths would reach their highest levels in almost 40 years (since 1986) and people would stop registering their vehicles (since they cannot be pulled over for expired tags)?

Articles:

• https://www.opb.org/article/2022/03/03/bill-that-would-limit-minor-traffic-stops-heads-to-oregon-gov-kate-brown/
• https://www.aclu-or.org/en/press-releases/legislatures-passage-sb-1510-transforming-justice-omnibus-bill-address
• https://www.koin.com/news/portland/nearly-half-of-portland-drivers-have-expired-plates/