Seriously?
1) Lincoln was assassinated in 1865; the NCIC database wasn't operational until over Two Hundred Years Later. There would be no reason to enter past events of deceased individuals into a database. I dare say Cain's murder of Able isn't in the NCIC database either.
2. The key word is "current", in every state of the Union, traffic convictions/points are removed on the basis of time. I've yet to hear of an arrest becoming a non-arrest just because a couple of months have passed.
3. Yes, there are traffic offenses for which one may/will be taken to jail - vehicular manslaughter and DUI/DWI come to mind, but I don't think parking violations meet the same criteria.
That is the line you set, according to you if a crime is not in the database it is not a crime. Apparently they unlawfully imprisoned Al Capone. We are not discussing parking tickets, stop with the BS, it is foolish. We are discussing violating laws, though most times minor laws, they are crimes, and as such is it an arrest when caught, detained, and punished. At one time a person in most states had to post bail, or surrender their license for even minor traffic offenses, and they were fingerprinted. Milwaukee for years required a thumb print on a citation at the time it was issued, before the current technology. If you don't want to be treated like a criminal, then don't break the law. Most traffic offenses are intentional, I have no sympathy for those that violate the law, minor, or major.
Forgot to ad, in many cities if a vehicle, emphasis on vehicle, is cited for parking violations it will be booted. You see the parking ticket is not written handed to a person, it is usually left on the vehicle. The owner is responsible no matter who is driving. Parking violations are usually nothing more than petty, or civil offenses.
In Texas you can be arrested for almost any traffic violation— even minor traffic violations that are not punishable by jail time. Texas law gives police wide discretion in making arrests for traffic violations, and the United States Supreme Court even upheld a Texas officer’s authority under the federal constitution to arrest a person for a minor traffic violation punishable only by a fine1. So, there is ample support in the law giving Texas law enforcement the right to make arrests during a traffic stop for simple traffic offenses.
https://saputo.law/texas-criminal-law/arrestable-traffic-violations/
Let me also point out that if Traffic was not a crime the police could not even stop traffic offenders. The police have to have one of two things to make a stop, RAS, or PC, without one of those two they cannot detain legally. This is covered in the US constitution, it is up to federal, and local laws to limit their authority to handle different crimes.
Police can arrest and handcuff people even for minor offenses punishable only by a fine, the Supreme Court said today in the case of a motorist arrested and jailed for not wearing a seat belt.
Ruling 5-4 in a case that could affect anyone who drives a car, the justices said such an arrest does not violate the Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable seizures.
Police generally can arrest anyone they see breaking the law, the court said as it barred a Texas woman from suing the officer who handcuffed her and took her to jail.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93495
