Aug 28, 2006 10:27 pm US/Eastern
Selective Enforcement: More Parking Abuse Found
The Abuse Is Widespread And Seen By More Than Cameras
by Brendan Keefe
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
There are so many cars parked at expired meters.
The question is: why can't the traffic enforcement agents see them?
On Wednesday, ticket writers walked right past officers' personal cars parked near the Police Academy, but had no problem seeing the delivery vehicles forced to double park right next to them.
"Police cars in the loading zones, we can't park, so we get tickets two or three times from the same spot," said delivery driver Darnell Sojourner.
Added fellow driver Robert Ortiz: "Because the police take up the parking, they take up the commercial parking, and then we're left to double park and then we get ticketed."
Ortiz received a $115 ticket because he was forced to double park, due to a police officer's personal car on an expired meter -- free of charge.
One officer questioned by CBS 2 about the issue had no comment.
"I was here for a minute. I was still in my truck. She didn't even ask me to move," Ortiz said.
Three years ago, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he was "shocked" when CBS 2's Marcia Kramer first exposed parking permit abuse around the Police Academy, something NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly at the time pledged to stop.
"The allegations are that they're parking at parking meters," Kelly said in June 2003. "That's not allowed, pursuant to those permits, and that's something we're directing our commanders to enforce."
June 25, 2003: Exclusive: Cops Parking Their Cars Wherever They Please June 27, 2003: NYC Parking Scandal Continues To GrowFast-forward three years.
One SUV we saw on Wednesday had three tickets on the windshield, while the cop's personal car in front of it -- at an expired meter -- got away scot-free.
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