A Bronx man ordered to tow away unmarked police vehicles claims a cop slapped him with a parking ticket out of revenge.

The weekend showdown between a patrol officer and an NYPD tow truck operator is now the subject of an Internal Affairs Bureau probe.

The bizarre tale began on Friday, when tow truck operator Marvin Robbins went to a restaurant on E. 149th St. in the Bronx. He crossed paths there with another customer, Officer David Moshier.

Things were cordial, Robbins recalled, until he told Moshier he was part of the controversial program in which the IAB sends tow trucks across the city to crack down on cops parking illegally.
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[more at: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/02/2010-09-02_angry_bronx_cop_slapped_me_with_parking_ticket_for_doing_my_job_he_charges_its_r.html]

Despite a lot of work by the community, our elected officials, and IAB, the Dirty Five-Two still won't pass up an opportunity to give their lying, cheating buddies a free pass!

MTA Police placard used to park illegally at a difficult turn on a narrow residential street. Basic common sense would dictate that an FDNY truck may need to be able to make a turn ON A BLOCK WHERE A BUILDING ALREADY BURNED TO THE GROUND!!!

But does the Dirty Five-Two care? Absolutely not! They're obviously more interested in being best buds with their dirty cop brothers everywhere.

Let's get real - it is you JOB to ticket ANYONE parked illegally. Don't care if they're job is being a cop. That doesn't mean they can break the law - it makes it that much more important that they do not break the law!

If they can't do the job, they need to be fired. In this economy, we can find plenty of honest, brave New Yorkers who will actually enforce the law, instead of breaking it!

Placard # 11416 D.O.C., Correction

Black Mercedes Benz, - this vehicle frequently uses this meter as their private and free parking spot.

this person has no problem using the fire hydrant for their personal parking space every night. unless sleeping counts as work, this guy needs to stop.

Hiram Monserrate is a wanted man. Again.

Former state Sen. Monserrate (D-Queens) is still using his state-issued parking placard -- six months after he was booted out of the Legislature for assaulting his girlfriend.

Senate officials are considering turning the matter over to State Police after he's ignored their repeated demands to give up the parking pass.

The placard is issued by the state Office of Homeland Security and includes the agency's seal and phone number, but it was distributed by the state Senate.

The Post caught the silver 2009 Honda belonging to the scandal-scarred Monserrate -- who is currently running for an Assembly seat in Queens -- with the official placard on the dashboard.

He was parked legally outside his campaign headquarters in the Corona section of the district.

The placard -- which allows parking in metered spaces without paying and in no-standing zones, among other things -- does not expire until February 2011, but all Senate staffers are required to return the parking perks upon leaving Albany, Senate spokesman Austin Shafran said.

"The Senate has twice attempted to get Hiram Monserrate to return his placard, and both times our requests went unanswered," Shafran said.

Senate officials left him messages that were never returned, and may turn the matter over to police.

"We'd like to give him every opportunity to return the placards, but that's an option that may be considered if it's not returned," Shafran said.

Monserrate is the only senator who has left since the new batch of placards was distributed in February, he added.

Monserrate's campaign spokesman, Mike Nieves, said he could not reach the candidate to get an answer as to why he is still using the placard.

"I really don't know why," Nieves said, emphasizing that the placard is legal.

The former senator, who served in the City Council until he was elected in Albany in 2008, has returned his city-issued permit, Mayor Bloomberg's spokesman Jason Post said.

In October 2009, Monserrate was found guilty of one misdemeanor assault charge in the case involving his girlfriend, Karla Giraldo, in December 2008.

He dodged two felony charges in that case, and the two are reportedly back together.

The incident prompted the Senate to expel him in February, after he received three years probation, mandated community service, and one year of counseling.

Giraldo's face was slashed in the incident, but she and Monserrate maintain that happened by accident.

[more at: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/hiram_perk_late_rb83kgm15hqyJ0FrYO4BkN]

Things have been getting better in Norwood. Far, far fewer illegally parked cops in the neighborhood, and they ticketed an illegally parked car with a DOT placard this morning.

And yet...
This morning, a car with a placard from "Headquarters" parked right in the middle of a NO PARKING ANYTIME zone.

Just as the precinct starts to clean up its act, someone from downtown shows up to break the law.

Black BMW operator displays NYPD placard with different plate than on vehicle, parks for hours in "No Standing Anytime" zone, adjacent to school facility, 2 malls and at the merge point of 2 streets that carry major mall traffic overflow. This was site of injury accident 12/2006, in part due to blind spots, reckless driving and jaywalking. This is irresponsible behavior of one who is supposed to protect the public, but rather chooses to throw the public away in order to support a small personal convenience and cost savings (the mall parking is across the street (90th Street). He, in shorts and a bright yellow shirt, and his female companion, finally show up with packages that he stowed in his trunk, before driving arrogantly off - celebrating the fact that no summons or tow occurred.

This vehicle has blocked the walkway to fit their car in as tight as possible.
Obviously everyone else receives a ticket but this one continues to park on top of other cars at the corners.

Sometimes the dirty cops are so thick, you can't even get to the end of one block without coming across another one.

Apologies the photo isn't a little more clear. If you look, you can see the No Parking Anytime sign - the vehicle in question is the white one down at the corner. Clearly parked illegally.

Dirty Five-Two simply does not care. One dirty cop parked next to another, and they leave them all alone.

They're too busy ticketing the taxpayers who pay them for (maybe) parking a few inches too far the wrong way.

Meanwhile, the cops are breaking the law all over the place, up and down the street, around the corner... you name it, there's a dirty cop parked there!

Half of the reason the streets are literally so dirty is that with all the dirty cops parked, the street sweepers can't clean properly.

Welcome to the filthy world we live in, thanks to the Dirty Five-Two!

Still walking down the same street, here's dirty cop number 3!

This is nowhere near any precinct. Certainly not the 49th Precinct that issued this restricted parking permit.

This is also the second day in a row this dirty cop parked on this part of this same block illegally (he blocked the fire hydrant yesterday morning).

Clearly not on any "official business" here...

Just breaking the law to park more conveniently because the Dirty Five-Two lets him get away with it. No regard for the danger it poses for everyone in the community. No interest in any basic semblance of professionalism either.

Three blocks this morning, and we've got three dirty cops. In a precinct where they're all dirty enough to let these jokers get away with it in broad day light.

It is really bad when you can't walk a single block without seeing a cop break the law.

In fact, other than cops breaking the law on every block, I didn't see any criminal behavior this morning at all!

The only crime was the dirty cops in our neighborhood! Welcome to the Dirty Five-Two!!!

This guy parks illegally almost every day. When he isn't in the NO PARKING ANYTIME zone like this morning, he's blocking a nearby hydrant.

He doesn't even have a parking permit from the NYPD. He just throws a bunch of trashy looking NYPD junk on the dash.

What does the Dirty Five-Two do? They give him a free pass.

If you decorate your car with enough NYPD junk, apparently you can park anywhere you want. Who cares what the law says... obviously not those paid to enforce it!

Just another day of NYPD crime in the Dirty Five-Two!!!

Repeat offender, blocking a fire hydrant.

In a neighborhood that had two devastating fires in the past year that gutted the main shopping strip.

What does the Dirty Five-Two do when their dirty cop buddy puts us in danger? Nothing.

More of the same embarrasing, unprofessional, dangerous trash each and every day.

Let's hope the baking sun is the only thing that gets overheated around.

Because if we have another fire, the FDNY is clearly going to have a hard time getting to a hydrant, what with all the dirty cops blocking them.

They know better than to block the hydrants. Yet here is a dirty cop, from the 49th Precinct with no conceivable purpose to claim "official business" here parking less than 3 feet away.

And the shameless officers here in the Dirty Five-Two refuse to ticket and tow. So those of us who live here continue to hope their arrogance and lack of integrity don't cost somebody their life!

It is downright shameful!!!

They're getting creative about breaking the law and putting people in danger up here in the Dirty Five-Two.

This guy somehow managed to both block a fire hydrant and block a crosswalk AT THE SAME TIME!

Instead of giving him the TWO tickets he deserved, and then towing his car, what did the dirty cops driving by do?

We don't really know... but it's not hard to imagine they were elbowing each other and laughing it up. At any rate, they did not DO THEIR JOB.

This car has been parked outside the school all day. Called 311 and was directed to the local precinct. They came and said they couldn't ticket as they didn't know school was in session..... even though they were standing outside the school where school kids were coming and going and we TOLD them school was in session.
License number on permit doesn't match. Pink card permit with no lamination - fake??

Come on!

One-third of the car in a NO PARKING ANYTIME zone might not be a big deal, if they weren't ticketing civilians for a matter of inches every day of the week.

It might not be a big deal if he didn't insist on parking illegally every day.

But this guy refuses to park legally, and the Dirty Five-Two refuses to ticket him.

And he doesn't even have a real NYPD placard!!! The guy just throws a bunch of NYPD crap on the dashboard.

Yesterday afternoon he was blocking a hydrant. Not ticketed. He moved from the hydrant, and was in the NO PARKING ANYTIME zone by the morning. Still not ticketed.

Other cars on the block had been ticketed.

I guess if you suck up to the NYPD, you don't get ticketed. Their own little power trip here in the Dirty Five-Two!

Can't find a place to park in front of your house? Too lazy to walk a block or two? No problem if you're a cop who lives in the Dirty Five-Two!

You have your own personal parking spot reserved by the fire hydrant.

(This is not the first time it has been blocking this same hydrant. And it has been reported to the NYPD before too.)

Parked nearly everyday in a No Parking Anytime zone...

Where can you draw a paycheck for doing the very opposite of the job you are paid to perform? Apparently the NYPD!

Take this example. This personal vehicle is parked at a fire hydrant - illegal under any circumstances. It does not even have an NYPD placard, just a bunch of NYPD junk somebody threw in the dashboard.

And it doesn't get ticketed.

A professional police force would be ashamed the NYPD junk in this dashboard looked so, well, junky. But here, they seem to be proud of the fact they look like slobs while breaking the law.

It's all just so pathetic it would be funny... except it's dangerous to our community, and a waste of our hard-earned tax dollars!

"No Standing Anytime" - You're kidding, right? I'm a cop. I can park my car anywhere I want.

I could care less if it's discourteous, unprofessional, and disrepectful. Who's gonna stop me?

Oh, and keep working hard at your job to pay all those taxes so I can have a cushy retirement.

Another dirty cop blocking a crosswalk in the Dirty Five-Two.

The people who pay taxes in this precinct get ticketed if they don't move their cars on time (early, actually, but whose clock is the judge going to believe). Meanwhile, the people they pay park wherever they want, no matter how dangerous and inconvenient to the people they swore to serve and protect.

Once again, some are breaking the law, the others are letting them do it. And none of them are honestly earning their living.

What a waste!

The NYPD allows up to two traffic agents per shift to personally guard the private vehicles of fellow meter monitors in the Westchester Square neighborhood of The Bronx.

On the taxpayers' dime, the meter-agents-turned-security-guards -- who make an average $36,500 a year -- spend their whole shifts standing on the corner of St. Raymond and East Tremont avenues, occasionally patrolling the 15 or so cars parked there by colleagues.

The Post recently observed every one of the cars parked all day at expired, two-hour coin meters -- clearly in violation of parking-meter regulations -- but not one ticket was issued.

The meter guards don't even bother to carry their ticket-writing machines.

"[The agents say], 'These are our cars -- we get courtesy just like the police get courtesy,' " when it comes to parking, local businessman Raymond Lopez said.

Peter Hernandez, who owns a locksmith shop on the block, said, "Every day, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., [they] act like security guards. They told us once, 'We're not allowed to give tickets here.' "

[more at: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/walk_in_the_park_3RvnwwSLYCt1WUvV2fIC7K]

Let's start with the illegal dark cover over the license plate, intended to prevent the red light cameras from ticketing this dirty cop when he runs red lights with his personal vehicle.

(Reminder from the DMV:
http://nysdmv.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nysdmv.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=184)

(Note that if he was on official business that required running a red light, he could easily have a photo dismissed, so the cover is clearly meant to allow him to break the law!)

Then there's the fact he's parked illegally in a NO STANDING ANYTIME zone that is necessary for visibility at an irregular intersection.

And he has a placard issued to an entirely different vehicle in the windshield (trying to obscure the license plate it was issued to) to keep the dirty cops from ticketing him while parked dangerously.

Finally, there is the Dirty Five-Two, which steadfastly refuses to do anything to protect the public from all the dirty cops in our community.

As usual, the people we see breaking the law are all dirty cops!

Another dirty cop, blocking a fire hydrant.

Same dirty precinct, letting him put everyone in danger.

Nuf said.

Oops! That should read:
"The Dirty Five-Two Inaction!!!"

Cop cart pulled up alongside an illegally parked vehicle. Did not bother to even look at the placard (clearly the umpteenth time driving by this afternoon). Sat at the red light for the entire time to turn green only inches away from the illegally parked vehicle. Drove right off without doing their job.

All caught on camera.

Before somebody starts complaining that it is hard to read the NO PARKING ANYTIME sign directly above the illegally parked vehicle in the one photo posted here, rest assured there is adequate detail submitted to verify the vehicle was violating the posted parking regulations.

Also note this is not a self-enforcement zone. And the placard in the windshield was from an entirely different precinct anyway.

No excuse for the vehicle to be parked there. Even less for the Dirty Five-Two to stop just inches away, sit there for an entire signal light, and drive away without doing their job.

The commanding officers for this area should be ashamed of pictures like this!!!

So when I got to the subway this morning, there was a dirty wannabe cop blocking the wheelchair ramp on the corner.

(For additional detail, the crossing is at an angle, and the vehicle fully blocked the crossing, even though the picture from a single perspective only shows it encroaching "a little" on the actual handicap ramp.)

Of course, the Dirty Five-Two lets him get away with it.

Really, as long as you pay homage to the NYPD, it looks like the Dirty Five-Two will let you park anywhere you want.

There was no official placard in the windshield (not that it would have been any more legal). Instead, there was an NYPD patch and a Civilian Handbook from the NYPD.

It is scary if this is the type of person who wants to become a cop - some guy who can't be bothered to walk a block or two to get a legal, safe parking space.

This joker should be put on a Do Not Hire list! Right after they ticket and tow his car, that is!!!

So on my way to the subway this morning, I saw a private vehicle on my block that had been ticketed. It was parked about a foot too close to a hydrant.

Then on the next block there was another vehicle parked several feet closer to a hydrant. It was not ticketed. The Dirty Five-Two gave their dirty cop buddy a free pass as soon as they saw his placard.

Do as I say, not as I do? The Dirty Five-Two, breaking the law while writing out tickets to everyone else for less serious offenses.

Blocked hydrant. By a dirty cop. Welcome to life in the Dirty Five-Two.

You couldn't get these guys to do their job if their life depended on it - in fact, in this case, it sort of does. Fire hydrants stand between life and death, and here they have gotten a lot of use!

This is right on the shopping strip where two devastating fires gutted the community within the past year!!!

Given the context, this goes way beyond stupid. It is outright criminal. These dirty cops, breaking the law like it's the wild west, putting us at risk need to be fired.

We need a few people willing to act like professionals. We need people willing to do the work to earn a paycheck.

We need a few people who actually want to make our community safer.

This guy is a regular. And still the Dirty Five-Two seems thoroughly unwilling to ticket him on their own.

He was documented parking illegally in this same area on 5/30, 6/12, and 6/27. He was ticketed on 6/27 after sustained pressure through several channels.

Yet again today he is sitting there, illegally parked under a NO STANDING ANYTIME zone with a placard that does not allow parking in a no standing zone. The placard, as the Dirty Five-Two knows perfectly well, does not even belong to this vehicle!

But they still won't ticket it, unless somebody absolutely forces them.

There needs to be accountability. After all this discussion and cooperation from the community abused by these dirty cops, if any officer passes this car without ticketing it, he should be fired on the spot.

Doing this part of the job is not hard at all. If they won't even do the easy parts of the job, they don't deserve a penny of our hard earned tax money!

Here's a vehicle with a placard from Midtown South. Maybe he's just lost? This part of the Bronx kind of looks like it could be a self-enforcement zone in Midtown South, right?

Yeah, sure. Oh, and he's parked directly below a bright red sign that says "NO STANDING ANYTIME" in all capital letters. A self-enforcement placard doesn't allow police officers to legally park in NO STANDING zones. Maybe he just can't read?

Or maybe he's just another dirty cop, taking advantage of the lack of integrity in the Dirty Five-Two.

The Dirty Five-Two - breaking the law every day. It's so much more fun than enforcing it!

On this great Fourth of July, we remember the birth of the first democratic nation on Earth, dedicated to the rule of Law.

Well, at least some of us do.

Then there are the same dirty cops who could care less about anything other than themselves. For the second day in a row, this dirty cop drove the car he just bought and parked it in front of the entrance to the park.

Kids have to walk in the street. Mothers with strollers have to dodge cars. Dog walkers try to keep their pets from getting run over. All because this guy was too lazy to walk about fifty feet.

That's right. There were several open parking spaces a mere fifty feet away. He parked while I was in the park, so I could see the empty, legal parking spots he drove past to go park illegally, blocking the entrance into the park.

On our nation's birthday, while the rest of us are celebrating our Independence from an abusive form of government that disregarded the Will of the People, this dirty cop is instead violating that very will. The Law, as enacted by our duly elected representatives, is clearly posted on the sign: NO STANDING ANYTIME.

But the Law, the very spirit of our nation, is meaningless to this dirty cop. Even on this, our Nation's birthday.

What a disgraceful reminder of how we must be ever vigilant of the abuse of power!!!

Dirty cop wants to show off his new car (temporary registration taped in the front windshield next to the placard from a different precinct).

Free parking spots all over the place, but he's going to block the entrance into the park. Either he's too lazy to walk 30 feet, or he really, really wants to make everybody gets a good view of the Infinity. They might be a little distracted trying not to get hit by traffic while walking in the street, though!

(NO STANDING ANYTIME clearly posted, pavement is hatched to be used by pedestrians because there is no sidewalk.)

The Precinct know all about the problems at this location. We remind them all the time. And, it is just a basic part of their job as officers sworn to enforce the law, after all.

Despite the basic commons sense, and the constant reminders and community pressure, they still do not ticket - unless somebody calls. Even then it's hit or miss whether they'll actually enforce the law against "one of their own."

Just another day in the Dirty Five-Two!

It really is pathetic that these guys are so lazy they can't be bothered to walk half a block.

They make the whole police force look inept by branding their laziness with the NYPD logo too.

Or they're so arrogant and petty that they block fire hydrants just to show off they can do it.

The bottom line is this: they have made a commitment to enforce the law. If they are breaking it, they are not honoring their commitments. They are not doing their job, and are not earning their paychecks.

It's not just the handful who are actually parking illegally either. The rest are letting them do it. Covering up for them, even, when law abiding citizens make reports to 311.

So they're all lying and stealing our tax money. Fire the whole lot and get some honest cops up in here!

Let's examine this "professional courtesy"...

- A dirty cop parked at a fire hydrant.
- No ticket from the local precinct.
- Everybody in the neighborhood sees the cops breaking the law in broad daylight.
- It is clear to everybody there is no professionalism in the precinct!

So, the cop from another precinct comes into this precinct and makes all the officers here look bad... and they call that "courtesy"??? They stick up for the guy making them look bad because he's lazy?

How about they try a little more intelligent model:
The officers who come into somebody else's precinct obey the law and help their fellow officers look good?!

Come on folks. Just a little common sense!

The dirty cops in our neighborhood are actually responsible for the majority of the day-to-day disorder we witness in our community.

The NYPD used to apply the Broken Windows hypothesis. Experience showed the broken windows that were not fixed attracted more vandalism and worse illegal behavior. The NYPD made a lot of progress by eliminating the small signs of disorder in a community, before they escalated into major crimes.

Now, it's the NYPD breaking the windows!

So much for "professional courtesy"!

This vehicle was parked several feet too close to a hydrant, and displayed a patch from the FDNY to avoid getting a ticket. That's right, a patch. Not a placard, just a cheap novelty patch anyone could buy at shops all over town. And it worked with the Dirty Five-Two. While a car parked further from a hydrant a block away got a ticket, this vehicle was not ticketed.

There's no reason to believe the unethical individual parked at this hydrant had any real affiliation with the FDNY at all. But using the patch gives the impression it's a dirty fire fighter who doesn't even respect fire hydrants.

The Dirty Five-Two knows better than to pass over any vehicle parked at a hydrant. There is certainly no excuse for passing over a vehicle with a patch, instead of an official placard.

Making our firefighters look bad is most definitely not "professional courtesy."

So, let me get this straight...

This placard does not have the identifying information filled out, but the officers of the Five-Two didn't notice the placard was blank? Maybe they didn't notice that there was a vehicle parked right, directly below the NO PARKING ANYTIME sign. Right on the awkward island in the middle of traffic?

I know! Maybe nobody drove down the Grand Concourse all day?

Yeah... there really is no explanation, and no excuse!

This guy is good for $115.

Imagine, if they simply issued summonses and towed a significant fraction of these cops parking illegally, we could go a long way toward closing the budget gap.

Why increase class sizes? Why close senior centers? Just make people who are breaking the law pay the penalties they are legally required to pay!

Of course, they would eventually start parking legally, and the City would lose this revenue. But the economy should come back, so simply enforcing the law seems like it might not be a bad way to help bridge the financial gap.

Oh, and it's also kind of their job to enforce the law too.

There is no way they don't see this regular parked illegally.

There is not way they haven't noticed yet the placard doesn't match the license plate.

It's been reported to them, just in case they were so oblivious they couldn't see it for themselves.

There is no plausible excuse left for this vehicle to continue parking illegally, where a self-enforcement placard would not apply, with a placard that is not even issued to this vehicle.

No excuse, that is, except for a deliberate and voluntary violation of the law by the Precinct itself.

The Dirty Five-Two shows more grime every day!

Here's another testament for stupidity!

Parked in front of a fire hydrant.

A placard from another precinct, not even issued to this vehicle.

Blocks away from any station house.

What does the Dirty Five-Two do? Nothing!

They just let it block the fire hydrant for hours on end. Who cares if residents (including this idiot's own family or friends) die in a fire. Safety is so unimportant to them, as long as they can show the neighborhood they're above the law.

One illegally parked cop right behind the other... Really not a surprise at this point.

The residents in this neighborhood are rarely parked illegally (but they still get tickets). But walk more than a few blocks and you're sure to find a dirty cop who parked his cop illegally.

The Dirty Five-Two sure seems to love a party. It's the place where all the dirty cops go to get together!

This placard does not belong to this vehicle. That doesn't stop it from parking illegally all over the area!

Of course, the person who is using it to break the law will continue using this favor from his dirty cop buddy until somebody stops him.

Ticket, tow, and fire the cop.
Discipline really is that simple!

Let them park anywhere they want, and they'll block the fire hydrants too. They don't care. No honor, and no honesty.

Apparently no intelligence, either... If they're willing to block the fire hydrant so they don't have to walk to get home, they might end up getting their own family killed.

And, as usual, the Dirty Five-Two doesn't care. No ticket on any vehicle with a placard, even if it's blocking a hydrant?

Fire every last one of the cops parked illegally, and every one that drove by without writing a ticket.

Fire them, before somebody dies in a fire!!!

Just put a PBA card over the placard you borrowed from your dirty cop friend, and none of the other dirty cops in on the cover up will ticket your car. Great.

The depths of the dishonesty run deep. The whole lot need to be ticketed, towed, and then promptly fired. They have no business collecting pay checks for refusing to honor their duty.

What every happened to the days of honor among our officers? Now they all give off this image of being petty, lazy cheats who can't be bothered to walk a block or two home. Really a shame!

And the worst part is that this corrupt culture puts a bad mark on all the good law enforcement officers who are actually working hard to do a good job every day.

The Dirty Five-Two apparently will not ticket their buddies from the Department of Corrections, either.

Same place. Same parking violation. Same arrogant, illegal appropriation of power, taking from the community with the belief that nobody can "do anything about it"...

It is time for the citizens to hold these law breakers accountable!

[Moderator's note: this permit is not valid for on-street use for any purpose]

In the past twenty hours, this vehicle has not moved. Yet, somehow, the 52 has been unable to ticket it?

Meanwhile, I'm sure plenty of neighborhood residents still got questionable tickets for parking "too close" to a fire hydrant.

These guys obviously are not mature enough to be trusted to follow a few simple rules. Makes you wonder how they can be trusted with any real authority. Yikes!!!

Yet again a dirty cop parks in this same spot. Did the 52 issue a summons for breaking the law? Yeah, right!

They see somebody breaking the law, and they're not enforcing the law. Put simply - they're not doing the job they're being paid to do. They're stealing from us taxpayers. Time for them to get fired!

Do your job or go home!!!

Due to pressure from the community, which has contacted elected officials and Internal Affairs, the parking spaces right outside our park are (mostly) clear of illegally parked personal vehicles with NYPD placards.

But they only drove a short block away to go park illegally. And, surprise! They're not getting ticketed there.

Reported to 311 at 6:00 pm. Still in the exact same spot at 7:45 am, with no ticket!

How hard is it to get the NYPD to enforce the law? It's really difficult to get people in the neighborhood to trust the cops, when it is so painfully obvious they don't even follow the law on little easy stuff that everybody sees. What are we supposed to think they're doing when they don't think anybode is watching???

THE SURLY TRAFFIC AGENT who slapped a Queens councilman with a parking ticket also got into a verbal tussle with the lawmaker's chief of staff earlier this month.

Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) insists he had no idea Daniel Chu was the same agent who issued staffer Dennis Ring, 34, of Whitestone, a summons when the councilman decided to tail the agent on Monday.

"Certainly, I had no idea what agent we were following when he blew by us in a car speeding," said Halloran, who was with Ring. "I wasn't aware who the officer was until after the ticket was issued."

Ring was given a $165 parking ticket on June 5 for blocking a crosswalk. It was doled out in front of the same Whitestone Dunkin' Donuts where Halloran and Chu got into a heated confrontation a week later.

Chu also noted on Ring's ticket that the license plate number didn't match the City Council placard displayed in the car's window.

"He started yelling at me, 'What's that placard?'" Ring said. "I started arguing with him."

Chu told the Korea Daily News that Ring had said he worked for a city councilman. He then demanded the ticket be dropped.

Only Council members are issued the placards, said mayoral spokesman Jason Post.

Ring fought the ticket in court and lost. He is appealing the judge's decision.

Halloran claimed he followed Chu this week after he spotted the agent talking on a cell phone and speeding through stop signs.

The councilman said he was slapped with a $165 parking ticket after Chu saw him taking pictures of the agent's car parked in front of a crosswalk.

[more at: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2010/06/19/2010-06-19_its_traffic_agent_vs_team_halloran.html]

This owner parks in front of the fire hydrant every day and night for hrs at end and sometimes he parkst there for days and puts a NYPD placard in his window and never gets a ticket