This guy, apparently an "honorary police surgeon," has written two different plate numbers into his pass, and is parked right in front of a hydrant. Not very "honorable." Didn't Hippocrates teach us to do no harm?

NYPD? with expired and edited placard and no front licence plate parked in an NYP zone and not in self-enforcement zone, whatever the hell that is.

Note the detectve endowment card blocking the precinct information. One has to wonder if this is an active duty cop, a relative or friend, or just a guy who found or was given the expired and invalid placard.

Apparently the enforcement people do not know what day it is or even care. Put a placard on the dash bogus or not and you are just hunky doorey.

Front licence plate, who needs it if you have a placard, even if expired and invalid and heck it ruins the sleek look of his white front bumper.

I just checked, March 2, 2007 and the car is still there and it is parked in a three hour Press zone. Yup the fix is in with enforcement. The blue wall of corruption and dishonor.

This curb cut in the southern leg of the crosswalk at CPW and 61st Street is often blocked by NYPD transit vehicles.

This guy uses a permit with no license plate number filled in. But even if you look past that, the permit's still no good because it expired well before these photos were taken.

Here is a shot of 7 or 8 cars, some parked in the "No Stopping Anytime" curbside zone, other double parked adjacent to them. This causes congestion for everyone trying to get through Columbus Circle, and endangers bicyclists proceeding north from the 8th Avenue to the Central Park West bike lane, by limiting them to one shared lane with motor vehicles. The plate and permit info reflect the car in the foreground.

This permit entitles the holder to park a car with plates C**-***9. However the owner (or someone else) is using the permit to park a different vehicle, with plates A**-***9. Putting this mismatch aside, the more immediate problem (especially if you are a wheelchair user) is the parking in the crosswalk that completely blocks the curb cut.

Another example of illegal "overflow" parking by NYPD placard holders near the Columbus Circle NYPD parking lot. Numerous empty parking spaces lie to the south, but those are reserved for the "top brass." So this fellow (ironically, with an NYPD Transit Bureau placard) parks in the bus stop, forcing bus patrons to embark and disembark in the middle of the street instead of at the curb (and creating an additional hazard for bicyclists in the bike lane). While this NYPD placard holder parks his personal vehicle illegally with impunity, the placard-less chump in the beige sedan behind him got a ticket.

Although there are several empty perpendicular parking spaces reserved for other NYPD placard holders nearby, this guy apparently is not allowed to park in them. So he decided to extend the perpendicular parking scheme beyond the portion of the street that is marked for it, by parking half on the street, half on the sidewalk. I guess hopping the curb is one reason to drive an SUV in the city . . .

This car is partially parked on the sidewalk.

There is a handicapped access sign posted on the sidewalk next to this car, which is partially blocking a parking garage driveway.

Corner of Washington & Carlisle, 2/21/07 at 4:15 PM.

Police officer parked on the sidewalk in a No Standing Anytime zone.

Like the car, this cop is not on the level.

Police officer private vehicle blocking free access to fire hydrant at the time of an alarm. Perhaps he was confused and thought the law was 15 inches rather than 15 feet.

This officer put citizens and Fireman at risk,

NY's finest, hardly. This above the law attitude by the very people assigned to uphold the law is absurd and cannot be tolerated. His car should have been towed and scrapped.