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.

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.

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!!!

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.

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??

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...

"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.

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 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!

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.

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???

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

Things have gotten a little better (there has actually been some enforcement!)

Still - there are some who haven't gotten the message. Probably because they're not getting the tickets.

This one doesn't even have the right placard in the vehicle! Of course, none of the cops driving by bothered to look...

It seems every cop in The Bronx wants to block access to our main neighborhood park. These placards are not even from the same precinct! We have talked with the 52 repeatedly, and they SAY they will ticket these dirty cops.

But when we call... every complaint gets ignored. 311 complaints are closed out with statements like "no violation observed" or "those responsible had left". Meanwhile, we walk by again and the same personal vehicle with the cop's placard is still sitting in the exact same spot.

Instead of enforcing the law, these cops are the ones breaking it. And their buddies are all covering for them. Truly unbelievable! Enough already!!!

This black Altima is parked in the same location as the Camero in the previous post (you can see the Camero in the picture). However, he doesn't cover up the license plate # on the placard with his EZ-Pass (I forgot to mention that before). The placard is legit (I think), but his use of it isn't. There are some other cars who use NYPD placards to park in this "No Standing" residential zone. I'll keep my eye out for them and post them in the future.

This new bright yellow Camero is parked in the same spot everyday. I often wondered how it could do such a thing since I parked in the same area for the week I had a car in Manhattan - and had to move my car constantly. I then noticed it was parked in a "No Standing Anytime" with white hash marks denoting the area. Huh, how could he park here? Oh, the placard in his windshield says NYPD. But wait, this isn't an emergency and this person is parking in a residential area - nowhere near any SEZ. So, he (or she) is using the placard to park closer to his apartment building than his fellow residents. Hmm...kinda rude.

For the last (3) three months everyweek day morning there is a passenger vehicle with a peach colored NYPD plaque inside of drivers side windshield, parked in the bus stop at the fire hydrant on Pennsylvania Ave, in Starrett City, near the corner of Vandahlia ave. There are (4) different buses that utilize this stop. B83/ B82 / BM5 / BM2 - This is a busy commuter stop Mon - Fri and the buses can not pull up to stop. They have to remain in street to load passengers. If two buses arrive they have to line up behind each other with folks spilling out into the street to board because this un-civil-servant- has designated this as their personal parking spot. How selfish can you get, this is clearly blatant abuse. That plaque only allows this individual to park in or near their precinct station house. Never a "Bus stop", or "Fire Hydrant" - heh you...if you are reading this, stop being cheap-Starrett City provides private parking spaces. Stop endangering and inconveniencing commuters and bus operators. TEA needs to give this vehicle a ticket.

This guy is a regular in this location. http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/12231

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.

No permit number, just "136" set in a graphic of a badge.

Later ID'd as Permit 1360024

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.

Everyday this vehicle is parked illegally past the No Standing sign on the north side of East 222 Street & Bronx Boulevard. This parking is a continuous flagrant and utterly blatant disregard for NYC parking laws. I personally have seen traffic agents give out parking tickets to FDNY & Sanitation personnel who parked at the same spot to see if they got the same treatment. Traffic agents do not enforce traffic laws when it comes to this illegal parking permit. This has got to stop. This officer needs to get reprimanded, given a CD and maybe a month's rip.

I have seen this car parked on the same spot on a 'No Standing' zone on my way to work every day for at least two years (actually, it's not the same car; he had a red Lexus before buying this 2009 model a few months ago). The permit is from the Police Department of the City of New York School Safety Division, and expired December 31, 2009. The permit appears to be a photocopy, with the license plate handwritten at the bottom. It is placed upside down under the registration and inspection certificate, so it is hard to see.

The car is parked there all day, because i sometimes see it still there on my way home. I have never in all this time seen him get a ticket.

Of particular irony is that he parks illegally right next to a parking garage, and that the vanity license plate makes it clear that the owner is very religious.

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

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.