Less Tickets; Unusual Excuse
Chicago is writing fewer parking tickets, but slapping more vehicles with the wheel-locking Denver boot.
Records released during opening day of City Council budget hearings showed the city issued just under 1.66 million parking tickets during the first eight months of this year, down 11.6 percent or 219,664 from the 1.88 million tickets written during the same period a year ago.
Ticketing was down, primarily because crime-fighting was a higher priority for Chicago Police officers. Even so, police still led the pack with 747,648 tickets, compared to 631,170 for Revenue Department parking enforcement aides and 227,740 for a private contractor hired to assist the city.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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But we have a carbine program !!! Right ?!!
Try signing up for the non-existent class on e-learning !
Hey, Iwas already trained with a shotgun over twenty years ago,if I buy my own,can I bring it to work and lock it in the trunk instead of the carbine ?11
What do you say boss???
It is also very noteworthy to mention that with the massively depressed business climate in the city shopping districts all over town are not being visited by motorists the way they used to be. Areas where parking was once near to impossible now enjoy plentiful street parking. I am quite certain the insanely priced parking garages are feeling the pinch too and suffering as well.
The meters are too expensive now and the damn ticket fines are outrageous. I write a few, but I just don't want to write too many because the price is just so high, who can afford it? The city is doing it's best to alienate anyone with a car.
I write a couple of movers a month and I cringe at the fines they levy on these drivers. Can anyone explain to me why it costs $230 for a stop sign fine? These fools act like everyone in the city is making $50 per hour and getting tons of overtime at their job and can afford this robbery.
017, 020 & 024 are doing a great job writing.
747,648 incidents of support for mayor Shortshanks to steal our future and rob us of our pensions. Stop writing tickets unless absolutely necessary...like a gangbanger's car.
I would write citations if the City would dedicate all funds raised to hiring additional police officers of fully funding our pension fund!
The public really does not realize that we (as taxpayers) are paying for a full strength department
I will not dig my hands into an already desperate citizens pockets,to pay for a corrupt,evil political system. If you are out there still writing parkers or sandbagging good people,you are an idiot.
Might those numbers have anything to do with the 11% drop in tickets?
In all fairness, Fran could read the comments in this blog and learn that some coppers have vowed to never write any parkers (or other tags for that matter).
What the fuck?
Are Chicago cops goddamn meter maids? Hire some folks at $10 or $12 an hour to write parking tickets and let the cops do their job.
I'm from God's country (relatively speaking) and our cops don't write goddamn parking tickets unless you've really been an asshole or you're parked in a cripple spot.
What's really happened is that the City has just gotten more aggressive in going after those who have 2 or more tickets, and are now on the Boot List. I saw a revenue van near my home last week at 0330 hrs., booting two cars parked on the street. Revenue is pulling out all the stops to 'detain' vehicles to shake the trees for $!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
It is also very noteworthy to mention that with the massively depressed business climate in the city shopping districts all over town are not being visited by motorists the way they used to be. Areas where parking was once near to impossible now enjoy plentiful street parking. I am quite certain the insanely priced parking garages are feeling the pinch too and suffering as well.
10/19/2010 03:25:
I agree! And the way they ticket everything, for parking is ridiculous, parked at midway airport the other day was slightly over the line got a Parker,then walked around "Holy shit batman' so many cars were ticketed and i counted 4 boots in 1 section be careful how you park! Pensions will be gone but keep writing the visitors don't worry they will be gone soon also!
Actually tickets are down since there's so many non-police out there writing them. You can't find illegally parked cars like you used to.
Has anyone seen the budget for police?
Is there ever going to be a Detectives class?
LESS TICKETS! Coppers at Midway are doing more then their bit. Management has their suck holes writing a book a day.
Private contractors driven by a profit motive enforcing the laws. Does anyone else in society observe a conflict of interest with this?
The city might have hit the point of diminishing return due to aggressive parking enforcement. 5 years ago I would have thought nothing of parking in a no parking zone for "just a few minutes", or staying overtime at a meter. The risk of getting a ticket wasn't that great.
This is not the case any longer, ever since the aggressive ticketing blitz started. Now, I know that I'll be ticketed the second I park illegally so I just don't do it. A lot of people feel the same way now. The city might be ultimately taking in less revenue from violations because they have scared people into making sure they are parked legally. I bet Shortshanks didn't think of that one when he decided to launch his War On Drivers.
0/19/2010 06:01pm
You obviously don't live or work in 18th/19th/23rd Districts.
18th District:
Coppers Cheat and write Street Cleaning before 9am and drop Rush Hour tickets every hour on the hour on the same cars (violation of General Orders).
19th District:
Coppers can't be found to write Speeders...but 9am bam; Street cleaning has the Coverage of at least 3 squads and a segway.
23rd District:
See 19th.
Although....the number of times I get the "Oh, but I'm a cop" comment from a idiot on a hydrant in front of a Starbucks is embarrassing. My new standard reply to that is "My uncle works IPRA..whats your badge number?"
@ 10/19/2010 10:54:00 AM
Right....you're just not looking if you can't Find 30 parkers a day.
There's only about 110 of the Revenue Mouth-breather's for the Whole damn city.
If your in a Fast district...thats one thing.
If your in a slow district/beat...you should be doing movers and parkers if you don't have a call.
its called justify your paycheck jagoff
/regards
1924
Write tickets and stay on 2nd watch?
Less tickets being written so the City dug up two tickets issued to me over none years ago.
The first ticket I had paid and the clerk advised me to keep that receipt forever, which I did, and this is rodiculou4.
The IRS only goes back six years.
The second ticket was from when my car was stolen.
Get these child sex traffickers/human traffickers/drug dealers locked up and the city can stop "stealing."
That means hire more police and businesses. Can stay in the city and not get run away which costs the city revenue and forces those remaining to pay more, oftentimes, for less services, etc.
Anonymous said...
@ 10/19/2010 10:54:00 AM
Right....you're just not looking if you can't Find 30 parkers a day.
There's only about 110 of the Revenue Mouth-breather's for the Whole damn city.
If your in a Fast district...thats one thing.
If your in a slow district/beat...you should be doing movers and parkers if you don't have a call.
its called justify your paycheck jagoff
/regards
1924
10/19/2010 07:31:00 PM
1924? you nut sucker. Better hope you don't head south or west in the upcoming purge. Better hope your ticket writing is enough to save you.
@ 10/19/2010 06:22:00 AM
There are 2 reasons Fines are as high as they are:
1. Obviously to generate Revenue for the city thanks to the idiot that got ticketed.
2. To teach the person a Damn Lesson.
Now...we all know bangers are morons and deserve every parker/mover we can drop on them.
But the Silver Spoon/Self Important/Oh I know so and so Morons that think a Tow Zone or Hydrant or Bus Stop is their own loading zone for Starbucks or Dry Cleaning pickup or to drop their brat off at Charter/Private/Public school also deserve the tickets they get for the stupidity of where they put their vehicle.
No one likes writing Meter Tickets (except maybe the TMA's in the Loop and Wards 42/2) and I think the 50.00 fine is a bit high (30 bucks made sense In my Opinion.).
But 100 for a hydrant, 200 for Disabled Parking, 75 for Obstructing Roadway, 50 for Street Cleaning/Rush Hour..
Those make sense to me.
/regards
1924
@ 10/20/2010 10:05:00 AM
I spent enough time in 1111.......I worked my ass off to get out of Harrison and into 19.
3 years and 1 day left...
KMA
/regards
1924
Start writing the illegal Ecoli and salmanella food carts all around the city.
Start TAXIng ANYONE and any MONEY CENTER (banks, western union, currency exchanges, etc) who is sending $$american money$$$ out of the country.
You might see some HUGE cash flow into the city and state.
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