Traffic amnesty program highlights the problem of temporary solutions to systemic poverty and racial bias

As California struggles to solve the problem of millions of driver’s license suspensions imposed on people who cannot afford to pay off a traffic ticket, the state’s leadership would do well to learn from the classic parable of “babies in the river.”
Once upon a time, there was a small village on the edge of a river. One day, a villager noticed a baby floating down the river. The villager quickly ran and swam out to save the baby from drowning. The next day, this same vil