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All NYPD precincts do not ticket equally; and a graphic in the Daily News displays where drivers are most and least likely to receive a parking ticket in New York City. It's not indicated why, but the total number of tickets issued by parking agents, 672,149, is down 13% from last year. The City hopes to remedy this with the recent addition of 200 more parking agents.
The crunched numbers show that the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights, Queens is the home of the busiest ticket scribblers, writing 20,848 tickets. Just a few hundred behind the 115th was Brooklyn's 70th, with 20,612. The most lenient precinct was the 120th at the far south end of Staten Island; it's only issued 2,965 tickets this year.
The News quotes several people from Jackson Heights, from doctors to delivery drivers, with the standard horror stories of multiple tickets in a day and agents standing next to their cars to issue a ticket one second after their time is up, as an owner is rushing to put more money in the meter. That may sound draconian, but at least it's not as bad as traffic agents issuing outright bogus tickets, even when parked legally. What can one do to fight that? One New Yorker spent an estimated two years and $10,000 to beat a $65 parking ticket.
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Those tickets are more than likely handed out by the traffic agents. The moving violations, I guess are the ones issued by the police (those with the guns).
I can't remember the last time I saw a cop hand a ticket to a motorist.
The law forbidding the use of hand held telephones is the Volstead Act of the 21st century.
The limo drivers (the so called "black cars") are some of the worst offenders and appear to be in the biggest hurry. The yellow cab drivers are a close second. The taxi & Limousine squad are the only cops I see pulling them over and they're concern, I guess, is proper paperwork.
If you want to see I mean, spend ten minutes or so at the
SW corner of 3rd Ave & 42 St. However, don't dare to jaywalk there because it's life threatening.
notice the areas that are less well off - have the highest rates of tickets...
east new york
red hook
greenpoint
I would love to show a map that shows areas that have to move their cars 4 days a week and areas where you only have to move twice or less - if you go to park slope now - above 4th ave alternate side parking is suspended ALL days - below 4th ave, where the frame houses start, and people work for a living it still in effect 4 days a week.
I !=
"notice the areas that are less well off - have the highest rates of tickets..."
bush's fault...
/ sarcasm off
Since when has Tribeca, SoHo and the Financial district become a low income area?
And when did the LES become a high income area?
what I would love to see is an overlay showing crime levels in those areas. We spend a lot of money on cops who do nothing but issue tickets instead of doing something about crime. I'm not saying that people who don't pay the meter or whatever shouldn't be fined--they should-- but I've noticed that NYC cops don't seem to have any ability to reason when doing so. They issue tickets a lot of times when a simple warning would probably do just fine.
I live in the 23rd...makes sense that there aren't a lot of tickets because street parking is free and legal all around.
"notice the areas that are less well off - have the highest rates of tickets...
east new york
red hook
greenpoint"
Greenpoint isn't one of the areas listed. It's covered by the 94th precinct, which is directly above Williamsburg's 90th (shown in blue, "low nmber of tickets") on the map.
Most of Red Hook is in the jurisdiction of the 76th, which also isn't listed. The 84th includes Boerum Hill and Brooklyn Heights, but probably more significantly the MetroTech area downtown, Borough Hall, the Municipal Bldg... the kinds of places that are prime for parking violations.
"what I would love to see is an overlay showing crime levels in those areas. We spend a lot of money on cops who do nothing but issue tickets instead of doing something about crime"
These are parking tickets, which are almost never written by cops. Traffic enforcement agents are civilian employees of the NYPD, with no other law enforcement authority. In other words, the people spending their time writing these tickets can no more "do something about crime" than any of the rest of us.
"the people spending their time writing these tickets can no more "do something about crime" than any of the rest of us." Huh? And what do the Guardian Angels do? Nada?
Put a beating on a traffic cop and you will see how good their communication is with the NYPD. They are a bunch of losers.
"the total number of tickets issued by parking agents, 672,149, is down 13% from last year." Either what they are suppose to do, decrease the volume of illegally parked vehicles, or what they really are meant to do, be a cash cow for the city, is up for debate.
"Put a beating on a traffic cop and you will see how good their communication is with the NYPD. They are a bunch of losers."
Let us know when you do this so we can watch (and call the justice brothers for you).