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.

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.

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.)

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!

Another dirty cop, blocking a fire hydrant.

Same dirty precinct, letting him put everyone in danger.

Nuf said.

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.

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."

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.

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!!!

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

Is this a real permit? If so, why is he hiding the expiration date at the bottom? Why does he have a new car dealer sticker? Why is it a New Jersey license plate with a City of New York permit? This guy must have a lot of time on his hands to be a cop and sell new cars.

Other spots down the block, but I think she was running late for the movies, so it was just easier to block the hydrant. Yes, I did see them buy tickets and go to the movies, so depending on the movie the hydrant will be blocked for about two hours. The sign is also pretty clear about no standing also.

This car is regularly being parked at this spot, blocking not only the hydrant but also the crosswalk. The police self-enforcement placard originally listed a license plate different from the one on the car, but last week or so someone added this car's license plate number to the permit. Not that parking away from the precinct's parking zone in a crosswalk and at a hydrant would get any more legal that way...

There's really no reason to have the placard on your dash when you aren't on official business or in your Restricted Parking zone. Basicly it shows intent to fraudulently use the placard to evade parking laws.

Vehicle is regularly blocking hydrants in the Sunnyside Gardens neighborhood. (I am also submitting on picture taken on 3/10 8:22am on Skillman Avenue near 45th ST.)

This morning, just after taking the shown picture, I approached a traffic agent. He explained to me that they don't write tickets to police cars. I insisted that it was not a police car (private licence plates), the parking placard does not match the licence plates, and the parking placard was expired. He still refused to write a ticket or call a tow truck, but he did call his supervisor (lieutenant Green from the Northern Queens traffic enforcement). He came, reviewed the situation, and decided to initialize internal action, based on the placard number only. He still didn't want to write a ticket or call a tow truck, saying that the disciplinary action against the officer will be worse.

Have nothing new to say, that has not already been said in many past posts. It is summer here we go again with this on my block.

Parking at a hydrant and using a placard for a different car (wrong plate # on it) is a double no-no.

This is the same hydrant featured here:
http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/11603

Private SUV parked parked at a hydrant in the West Village on a Saturday night. It's been there at least an hour an half. No doubt on official business at the clubs in the neighborhood!

[Moderator edit: removed language stating that this is a fake permit. This permit is not fake, as it appears to be the new 2010 NYPD Restricted placard]

A 108th Precinct employee showing courtesy, professionalism and respect by parking in front of a hydrant (yes, I know it's hard to see, but it's there).

Deputy Inspector Thomas Kavanagh has his work cut out for him, because his employees routinely block hydrants, park on sidewalks, in crosswalks, bike lanes and no standing zones.

This guy already brought Albany to a disgraceful grinding halt. Now he is putting his constituents in immediate danger by blocking a fire hydrant only days after a second devastating fire that destroyed several businesses despite the best efforts of hundreds of fire fighters.

Two strips of the main shopping street are demolished ruins of burned-out buildings, but this elected representative doesn't seem to think fire fighting is more important than his own personal parking convenience.

i live across the street.. saw police car stop and look at car id in windoe and get back into the car without ticketing it.

This guy takes this truck home every night and parks it on the streets of Dyker Heights Brooklyn. Not only shouldn't he parking it on the street, but more than not it is parked illegally, like pictured here, about 4 feet from a fire hydrant. Other times it's parked in front of a church, a school, or in a no standing zone. But NEVER in front of HIS house. And why does he take it home? It is an educational vehicle, not something he would need to take to an emergency in the middle of the night.

This officer parks his car every day either close to a fire hydrant or under a no parking area.
That photo was taken a couple of months back. Now the officer owns another vehicle but continues breaking the law.

You would think that the first thing they teach at the fire academy would be how important it is, when responding to a fire, to have access to a hydrant.

I guess not. Here's a shiny new Escalade with a non-placard issued by the Uniformed Firefighters Association (Stephen J. Cassidy, President; Joseph A. Miccio, Recording Secretary) parked right in front of a fire hydrant.

The non-placard reads: "This Vehicle Is On Official UFA Business," yet the SUV was seen in front of a residential building on a Sunday afternoon.

Ah, and those window tints? Those are illegal too buddy.

I got news for you buddy, but the 17th Precinct is not on McGuinness Blvd in Brooklyn. Oh, and that NYCPBA card is a nice touch.

no excuse

Big SUV parked in no standing zone, to close to hydrant. The permit in the window did not match the lic.plate on the SUV. This spot is a favorite spot for NYPD to park and see the movies at the place around the corner. Once again there where open legal spots to park on the block, but hey they would get a ticket,right? Also, what is with the overly tinted windows that seem very popular with the NYPD officers that break the rules?

So many things wrong with this.

Not sure that this corrections officers permit is good for anything other than a parking pass for the east -west wing of the staten island complex. That is what it looked like. But the "corrections" officer felt it was good enough to park right in front of 1 of 2 hydrants on the block. Great example of CPR.

And here's the Prius.

The permit number wasn't legible in this photo either, plus it was obscured by the registration. Again, however, the plate matches the one on the permit.

It's getting tough out there for abuser of parking placards! Now off-duty NYPD have to compete with other city agencies to find a nice convenient hydrant.

This car and the Prius in the next violation were parked together at the hydrant. Both had placards, of course... You can imagine my surprise.

Not sure if I got the placard number right (my photo turned out to be a bit blurry) but the license plate is correct and matches the placard.

This minivan with a 34th Precinct (179th St and north) permit is parked right in front of a hydrant on 50th St, a good 129 blocks away from the 34th Precinct.

This driver uses an NYC Council car for non-official business (picking up her son at the Boys Club in the East Village), and in the process parks illegally at hydrants and in No Parking Anytime zones. She has two expired placards in her windshield, as documented by the attached photos.

prior violation here: http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/4989

This joker decided to park in front of a hydrant. S/he also has somebody else's permit. Looks like they need some training themselves!

Once again the cops that stopped to ticket see the permit on the dash (half covered with a stuffed monkey toy, to hide the permit prec.#) and no ticket. Though the car behind it was also parked to close,

No courtesy. Disrespect. Totally unprofessional.

Dangerous and illegal.

Oh, and lame.

Yet again - overnight parking at Fire Hydrant by 114th. This is a location frequently passed by both 110th cruisers and NYPD parking patrols.

Obviously NYPD is approving of parking at fire hydrants next to shopping malls and residential high rises by their lack of action.

Way to go NYPD!

For 2 months now I have filed numerous complaints.Went to 47pct and let them know of the ILLEGAL parking and still the same outcome PARKED AT THE PUMP basically WHO CARES and what are you gonna do about it?FISH AV AND HICKS ST IN THE BRONX.

1st night of reported overnight parking at Fire Hydrant by 114th. This is a location frequently passed by both 110th cruisers and NYPD parking patrols.

Obviously NYPD is approving of parking at fire hydrants next to shopping malls and residential high rises by their lack of action.

Way to go NYPD!

2nd night of reported overnight parking at Fire Hydrant by 114th. This is a location frequently passed by both 110th cruisers and NYPD parking patrols.

Obviously NYPD is approving of parking at fire hydrants next to shopping malls and residential high rises by their lack of action.

Way to go NYPD!