This was inspired by a post I saw the other day.
In my city, there’s a fast food restaurant where people regularly use the drive through, park in a nearby neighborhood to eat, and when they’re done just toss their trash out the window.
What’s to be done about this in an ideal world? My initial thought is that “police” should stake it out and hand out littering tickets to those doing this.
Of course, these police would be unarmed, properly trained in deescalation, and maybe not even part of a greater police department (supposing such department even exists).
But I’m worried that this is just a super lib response, and wondering what your thoughts are. I’m a bit troubled by handing out these fines - these are potentially hundreds of dollars to people who can’t afford it. And an alternative sentence of community service to clean up trash, while there seems to be a sense of proportionate justice to it, is of course forced labor and would be unconstitutional under the 13th amendment but for that exception that people on this website love to quote and dunk on. Moreover, this is a deterrence-based approach which opens its own can of worms.
Community action maybe?
Get some neighborhood watch/patrol thing going. Harass people for parking where the trash gets dumped if they are there just to eat. Maybe, give them the trash back.
If there is any need/desire to involve civil authority, collect license plate info, maybe a photo/video of the trash being tossed from the vehicle. Fine levied against owner of the plates, added to property taxes, taxes then used to pay for community clean up of the area. Signs set up in the target areas informing everybody of this.
A bit on the iffy side as far as collecting information goes but :shrug:shrug-outta-hecks: without knowing what the community in question can or wants to do we're all flying blind here.