What is the police doing? Uninsured motorists are illegal. They could perform routine traffic stops, ask the motorist to produce insurance, and if they don't have insurance send them straight to jail. Get these people off the roads.
It should be easy for people to grok that by having a large number of uninsured motorists on the road, their own insurance premiums are increasing. Thus, people should be petitioning the police to catch more uninsured motorists. Why isn't that happening?
Florida is a lawless dystopia. I still get pushback when I say this, but after living a good 25 years here and also 6 years in California for comparison's sake, I feel I've earned the right to make the pronouncement. Police basically do not do anything useful here.
These days automatic license plate readers can trivially be wired up to insurance databases. A cop car can just automatically know who is insured and who isn't just watching the traffic go. But it's hard enough to convince cops to pull over people with obviously bogus or expired paper tags.
I'm just acknowledging the technology is already there and often already installed. If they're going to surveil me they might as well actually do something useful and get uninsured motorists off the road.
But they don't need to do insurance spot checks - in my state they run plates of cars that are in view and, presumably, they are alerted if you don't have insurance.
It should be easy for people to grok that by having a large number of uninsured motorists on the road, their own insurance premiums are increasing. Thus, people should be petitioning the police to catch more uninsured motorists. Why isn't that happening?