To be clear, this guy is not saying it because he wants to see the pictures.

He actually doesn't believe it's a problem.

Just ridiculous to pretend this is not an issue. Anyone who has set foot in NYC in the last 5 years knows this is a big problem.

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I sense some inbound malicious compliance

What’s his contact info? Let’s do this.

Edit: I sent him one. No response. Anyone else get a reply?

Mark Schroeder

Acting Commissioner

New York State Department Of Motor Vehicles

6 Empire State Plaza

Albany, NY, 12228

mark.schroeder@dmv.ny.gov

These people are clueless

I sent him the only plate pic I had in my phone, but I’ll be on the lookout for more.

Lol. What a clown, this guy deserves the malicious compliance coming his way

This guys glasses are so thick he wouldn’t be able to see a defaced plate at the optometrist

Since you went through the effort to post this, I'll be sure to send some pictures his way

Does he not realize that people are defacing or faking their plates, in order to avoid penalties related to their behavior? Is he really that stupid, or just pretending to be?

Not clueless. Liars.

All you have to do is walk around the 2-3 block radius surrounding your local police precinct and you'll get plenty of pictures to send over. I see these everywhere, especially the covers that obscure the plate from certain angles.

He doesn't want to do anything about it

There's no way he's so obtuse to think all these defaced plates are not intentional.

I know that is what his "we'll send out free replacements" solution is tantamount to, but he can't be this dumb.

And from the article:

>“It’s bizarre that NYS DOT is so clueless on this, especially when they can make so much money from it,” said David Thom after viewing the exchange between Gallagher and Schroeder on YouTube. “Go to any other jurisdiction and there is zero tolerance for the kind of paper and defaced /obscured plates that you see everywhere in NY State.”

This is where my conspiracy brain kicks in and makes me think lack of enforcement is due to the amount of government employees engaging in this intentional abuse.

The state can make SO.MUCH.MONEY fining the shit out of people who intentionally obscure or deface their plates, and the state has never been one to shy away from fining people for anything and everything under the sun....so why is there such an enforcement black hole to this goldmine of revenue?

Same thing with parking violations on fake or handwritten placards.

I'm convinced you could nearly fund the city by writing tickets on all fake placards and hand-written bullshit I see in dashboards of illegally parked cars. And yet you never see a single ticket. Funny.

Credit to /u/miser who is an absolute champion of these issues and making New York a more livable place.

And these are not crimes of addiction or poverty, so you won't get the PR backlash from activists or the media if you enforced placard abuse and plate obstruction.

So....what the fuck is stopping enforcement?

The state loves money and loves fines. Vehicle violations like tinted windows that block 31% of light are incessantly enforced.

Yet this gets a pass????

There are picture all over the internets of those licenses. I might do a search and send him a nice collection.