Comments on: This Just In: NYPD Biggest Abusers of Placard Perk

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:05:38 +0000

They are kidding about not being able to find bogus placards right? I see dozens everyday. Maybe they dont consider photocopies of real placards illegal.

And I hate to be the turd in the punchbowl but they need to ticket a lot more than that. 142,000 placards out there every single day. Id say a quarter of those are parked illegally. If you assume 60 workdays and 35,000 illegals a day, thats over 2 million illegally parked cars over that time. If only 2,400 get tickets over 3 months id still drive in too.

By: Ian Turner

Ian Turner — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:23:55 +0000

I live right by the 108th precinct, which is also near offices of the LIRR and MTA Bridges and Tunnels. These days, all the fake placards have disappeared, cars just park brazenly without them. I gather that parking enforcers just assume that anyone parked brazenly must be a member of the privileged. Either that or enforcement was always nil, I don’t recall seeing any tickets either way.

By: BicyclesOnly

BicyclesOnly — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:27:05 +0000

A bit off-point, but I saw a car with MD plates that parks illegally on my street virtually every day towed today. In the past my impression was that this car was not even ticketed. I gave the tow truck driver the thumbs-up and he was appreciative.

By: Jeffrey Hymen

Jeffrey Hymen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:53:19 +0000

I saw a blitz on Jay Street, in downtown Brooklyn. It appeared to be officers from the 84th Precinct, not Internal Affairs, however. I wonder if those tickets and tows are included in the tallies.

I saw that a car with an FDNY placard was getting a pass and pointed out to the officer that it was a union placard, not a city-issued placard. He wrote a ticket and the car was gone later, although I didn’t see it get towed. But cars with the so-called precinct placards all were spared tickets.