Government in Tennessee plays a game against the people in the state’s for-profit policing scheme developed around the creation of the driver license just before World War II. Take an administrative and civil matter (the driver license), criminalize activity under it (speeding, failing to have a functioning tag light, “expired tag”) and so create a large subject population by the mix-n-match use of both criminal and civil jurisdictions in the same action. Keeps cops busy. Keeps money flowing in. Proves the people need the state — for safety. It’s all about state convenience and state efficiency. Georgiana Gordon (not the … Continue reading Cop must ‘exhaust administrative remedies’ in state agency, ticketed traveler argues