Monday, February 19, 2018

More Placard Abuse and the fake crackdown

A year ago, I visited a Town Hall meeting with NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio and asked him about Placard Abuse, and false 311 reports, which he and now-former NYPD Chief of Department, Carlos Gomez answered only one of of the 2 questions.


And yet, a year later, the Placard abuse and false 311 reports continue.  I am now convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that the NYC Police Department is the most corrupt, derelict, and ignorant law enforcement agency in the nation.   They refuse to close out 311 complaints of illegal parking with their own NYPD scofflaw vehicles by claiming they saw "nothing" or never show up at all.   They lack basic integrity controls in the management and security of their own placards.   Want to report a member of the Fire Department having his car illegally blocking the hydrant?  Forget it, they will falsify that too.


And the abuse is not limited to the NYPD too - - anyone who can make a fake parking placard or have any government position who has a car, feels a sense of "entitlement" beyond the scope of the placard which they are lawfully entitled to do. 


My conviction started with this "continually" illegally parked vehicle around Water Street, plate #HEE7108 which, for the first time I have seen, is not only using an NYPD reflector vest (which any terrorist can buy over the internet) to steal metered parking, he is now illegally blocking a fire hydrant on Water St in Lower Manhattan.  Here are the original pictures which you can decide for yourself on January 18th.







I reported this to 311 - - complaint #C-1-1-1515095331 at approx 12:42 PM - - exactly 2 hours later, the NYPD 1st Precinct responds to this complaint claiming that they "observed no evidence of violation at that time" when the vehicle was illegally parked in front of a fire hydrant AND a No Standing Anytime zone.  Such reporting of a matter which is intentionally false is committing a felony offense of Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the 1st Degree,






Thankfully, that vehicle is no more infesting Lower Manhattan as Internal Affairs (IAB) assigned it to someone who contacted me and took care of it.  But why should I have no choice but to contact IAB for a simple thing as reporting illegal parking to 311?



Errol Louis, anchor of the nightly news show The Road to City Hall on Spectrum News in NYC, has a wonderful idea with a little help from Gridlock Sam I. Schwartz:








And Placard Abuse has tons of offenders which the NYPD refuses to take action of, such as these:







Even this "Federal Law Enforcement" phony has been renewing this (and placards on other vehicles) since at least 2002 - - they "renewed" theirs two weeks ago - - without a worry about getting caught by NYC's Department of Investigation or by the Feds. 




But the worst part are the threats against ordinary citizens who are fighting placard abuse, most recently a Staten Island lot owner who gave up the fight against cops from the 120th Precinct as well as city/state workers from parking their personal vehicles in his lot all day for free.  Or when I was stopped by a retired officer who questioned me on not only why I was taking pictures of her car with an NYPD vest - - she asked me what I was going to do with these pictures.







 And didn't Mayor De Blasio promised that he would look into NY State Senator Marty Golden's placard privileges???  More than two months later, nothing yet but full of hot air. 


Next, we have MTA Board Member Charles Moerdler using his MTA ID to steal commercial vehicle parking along John St in January.





Then I chimed in at the January MTA NYC Transit Committee meeting by calling Moerdler out (go to approx 17 min mark.) - - since then, he has paid his dues. 





Finally, I contacted a Bronx representative from City Hall about the illegal parking issues on the 52nd Precinct  - - as far back as last summer - - and as you can see - - the conditions within the 52nd Precinct have not improved - - they are getting worse - - these tweets were just posted yesterday.  You learn to empower yourself by taking charge and contacting your elected officials or staff - - what good is this if they don't follow up on your issue or just ignore it outright?






The Placard Abuse continues, with impunity - - in areas were there is plenty of public transit options such as Downtown Brooklyn, St. George in Staten Island, and Midtown/Lower Manhattan there is no reason why city and state employees can't use public transportation and walk to work.   No wonder why members of the NYPD are among the most obese in law enforcement - - they are too lazy to walk to work from a far away parking space or train station/bus stop. 




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