No license plate, no problem

I’ve been spending a lot of hours on the streets of West Los Angeles lately and noticing that lots of cars are without license plates. One car at my children’s school has been sporting the dealer-issued ad-in-lieu of license plate for around a year. The other day, driving north on Sepulveda, a sporty black Volvo weaved in and out of lanes like a spy on a car chase (or a drunk on a Saturday night). No turns signals, no speed within spitting distance of the limit, and no license plate. Clearly for this driver as well as the many others with no identifying marks on their car and utter disregard for traffic laws, rules are for little people. With all of the talk of California’s financial insolubility, I wonder why this issue has not been attacked with the same gusto as the issuing of parking tickets in dense areas of the city? It’s not going to fix the budget crisis, but simply enforcing this and other public safety statues in existence would be a great source of revenue.