I saw this car. There is NO SUCH AGENCY. Which city official drives a $75,000 vehicle on official business?
This is blatant.
Where is the common sense?

Keep these kinds of posts coming people. The more fraudulent/expired permits we can get up, the better. This should go to IAB Impersonation division, and this person should be dealt with. I would think that officers should be very concerned about fraudulent permits and possible security issues with vehicles so easily passed off as official.

We're amassing some really amazing cases of fraudulent permits out there, and we will share the stories with you as we get answers.

Yes, this should get flagged for IAB. These "Child Protection Agencies", which are/were private entities, were flourishing in this state until a few years ago and were actual semi-legit according to an old state code.

This link is a recent state report on these SPCCs (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children).

http://www.sic.state.ny.us/Docs/Public%20Reports/pdf/spcc.PDF

I saw this post and got so angry I went downstairs to see it for myself and called in a 311 complaint. They said the fraudulent permit had to be reported to a special division. I see this car on the block regularly and this is beyond blatant. Why is it that the enforcement agenst are so afraid to ticket these cars?

Because these agents have no idea that these are fraudulent permits. I doubt that they want to know.

1-800-PRIDEPD or 212-741-8401

Give the officer on the other end of the call all the info you have and if this vehicle frequently parks there. Give them the plate number. Give them times. The Impersonation Unit of IAB are the only people in IAB the rest of the job actually likes ;)

Fraud is a crime. The person who owns the vehicle should be arrested.

Nemesis,
Please chill out. I'm close to blocking you.

Musha, great background link, thank you. Unfortunately, even when this was brought to the attention of the C.O. at the 19th in a recent community board meeting (February), he didn't seem interested.

ES, these guys were a pet peeve of mine for a long while.

Anyhow, if the precinct isn't giving satisfaction in a fraud/impersonation case go the IAB route. Their impersonation unit is well respected.

I can't speak for any particular C.O., but the job is fueled by ComStat numbers... guess if it isn't one of the Seven Major crimes it isn't an issue to some.

Next Community Board meeting try to meet the Special Operations Lt if he is there. All the specialty units in a precinct fall under him. He might be more interested.

This types of cases are an issue to me, as someone pretending to be in law enforcement can get innocent people hurt.

Anyone with a decent printer and/or scanner can make copies of these and other placards. And who is crying poverty over salaries when one can purchase an Escalade. Could it be he is into other activites..... Mmmmmmmm

musha writes: Because these agents have no idea that these are fraudulent permits. I doubt that they want to know.

efficient streets writes: "Unfortunately, even when this was brought to the attention of the C.O. at the 19th in a recent community board meeting (February), he didn't seem interested"

Well duh?

I attended that meeting which was a board 8 transportation meeting and listening to the commander of the 19 precinct the public should consider itself lucky police officers park their personal cars at the curb. He trivialized an issue that seems very important to cummuting police officers.

Someone said at the board meetting that enforcement will not ticket any vehicles with any kind of placard. The sick part is enforcement officials were in attendence at the meetinga and I saw them in denial looking at the gentlemen's photos.

Frank, I also posted the most effective route to take to correct this problem.

Traffic Enforcement Agents are not police officers... they have no arrest authority.

Unless the fraudulent permit is somehow labeled "fake" on it, I doubt they are going to look at it too closely.

I want to point out that not only is it a bogus placard it has an expiration date of February 1, 2005.

There is no excuse.

I saw the date... that is within the time frame that the state decided to crack down on these "agencies".

General rule of thumb when it comes to any employee population - a large portion are looking to do the amount of work they are required to do, no more... and less if they can get away with it.

That applies to all jobs, even my own, and yes, even yours. It probably doesn't apply to you, but look at your coworkers.

Apparently the Traffic Enforcement Agents that have actually bothered to look at this permit follow that general rule.

More good follow up on the SPCCs
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2005/jun/jun01a_05.html

Dick Tracy, could you see a particular county identified on the permit. That's not clear to me, but it would be interesting if it's King's County. Also, a friend of the site has told us that they have actively uncovered similar SPCC permits from Rockland County, parking all around Grand Central.

Heh, King's County was the biggie. Fooled a local precinct into letting them sign out Police Radios.

They were an excuse to get carry permits and badges into the hands of those that should have held neither. They had no desire to protect children.

Kings County SPCC was dissolved under court order in 2006

http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2006/feb/401751-2005.pdf

Brooklyn SPCC is a different organization and has not had any problems with NYS, nor do they claim to have enforcement powers.

I am happy to see a post like this one where law enforcement has absolutely no excuses and it has to do with placard abuse in general. It truly is ridiculous and ultimately the buck stops at the mayor's desk.

The additional factor is all the attention that was apparently brought to this block as I have seen from many posts and still no positive action.

in the first place you should have to pay $50 to drive an escalade into manhattan. those things are death machines. this guy needs to be towed immediately.

It is not a law enforcement permit... it is a fake.

I've already suggested a call to IAB would serve the interests of all in this case.

I would hope the people who run this site will forward posts like this to the proper authorities. Unfortunately, I have lost all faith in government.

I have seen this crook before! Escalades are especially bodacious with fake permits. But I only see these outstanding tickets:

CLM8132 7321762142 02/01/2007 NO PARKING-STREET CLEANING Ticket Detail Ticket Image 65.00

2 CLM8132 7877605237 02/05/2007 NO STANDING-COMMERCIAL METER ZONE Ticket Detail Ticket Image 115.00

So apparently some traffic agents got this guy before. And someone call the IAB -- come on, one of you decent Anonymous commenter folks -- pick up the phone and dial.

Um and this fake permit appears to have expired over two years ago.

I won't be making that call... I'd have to ID myself, and that would be the end to my postings ;)

I think a post like this one really drives the point home.

This is perfect demonstration of how the system is broken.

There is no accountabilty and the mayor is asleep at the wheel.

We are going to use a friend to contact the C.O. of the 19th Precinct. He cannot ignore this guy who pretends to be a public official. I am BAFFLED that sworn cops would honor this piece of nonsense in his window. If I were on the job in New York, I'd have the tow truck there in 2 seconds!

The Corvettes in Battery Park City belong to "friend of Rudy" Howard Koeppel, most likely. He also parks his FDNY truck there with all sorts of offical silliness on it. What helpful function does he provide on a fire scene after he uses lights and sirens to arrive? HARD TO BELIEVE!

Hi guys--

We *will* be systematically following up on complaints like this with IAB, and we'll keep you posted (probably via the soon-to-be-available forum system) on what happens as a result.

The only reason we haven't done it yet is because (a) all of our tech and legal guys (like me) have day jobs, and (b) we've been busy dealing with the threats, absusive behavior (on both sides) and borderline cases.

This is not a sprint, it is a marathon, so hang in there.

1. no problem complaining if it's not about an NYPD vehicle. 2. you understand you are asking for a tax increase to pay a stipend for civil servant parking because you are taking away their free parking!

I thoght if you had over $200 in outstanding parking tickets they impounded your vehicle?

the impound is dependent upon the NYC sheriff running your plate for outstanding fees. you will see the sheriff driving slowly down a street... he is running every plate that is parked while doing so.

Thank you Efficient Streets, Musha and Salguod for your very constructive comments here. I'll try to focus on cases of obvious fraud like this in the future. And may I add: In 15 years of observation, I have to say the NYC sheriff's office really does great work at getting repeat offenders like this off the streets. It is a very dangerous and tough job that brings exactly the results a website like this intends to achieve. I also think today's New York Times article will draw the attention of top officials in various agencies who are keenly aware of the abuse we citizens encounter daily.

Child Protective Law Enforcement---No such agency exists not City, State or Federal. They are a bunch of guys who claim to go around protecting kids from abuse. They have no Law Enforcement powers whatsoever. Several of their members have been arrested for showing ID claiming to be law enforcement when they are not!!! That vehicle showed be towed and the phony permit confiscated.

I filed a 311 complaint yesterday and the 19th precinct said they saw nothing.

C-1-1-304210569

The car was there all day, all night and all day today.

I filed two new complaints today one on the car and bogus expired placard and illegal parkiung oer signage and a complaint against the 19th precinct

C-1-1-304511245
C-1-1-304511248

1 212 741 8401 that is the number for iab... call them, not 311... the impersonations unit will get the case... they will be looking to make an arrest, so if the car doesn't get towed dont be surprised... they want the owner

oiseau... the vehicle in question has a bogus permit... it is not a civil servant vehicle.

additionally, vehicles are not towed for all infractions. there are actually only a limited number of infractions that allow a tow

and yes, civil servant vehicles with a permit on the dash do get towed... not as often as you might like, but it does happen.

I would urge all residents if community biard 8 to bomb them with calls. Also call council member Dan Garodnicks office or e-mail

garodnicks e-mail:
garodnick@council.nyc.ny.us

Community Board 8:
212 758-4340

As a police officer with the NYPD, I enjoy your comments about bogus parking placards and when then are illeaglly parking on the upper eastside I have the time to spend and sit,waiting for them to return so I can take proper police action.With this said,I will be addressing this vehicle mention above starting Monday March 26th.Thanks for the info,keep up the good work.

This car is only the tip of the iceberg.

We have an ex-police commissioner masquerading as a working detective (Safir), numerous MDs with bogus placards parking beyond the courtesy 3 hour limit. We have FOX 5 abusing their press placards which are onlt vaid in an NYPO zone or at the scene of a news story they are actively covering for 3 hours. So just show up on east 68th between 2nd and third and bring a few ticket books.

Oh and one more thing, look at east 66th street and report all NYPD in NO STANDING ANYTIME zones.

Finally I see a ticket on the car but it is still there.

Now a guy like this who gets maybe 4 tickets a year is way ahead of the game as parking in this area is $600.00 a month or more for a bus like that.

East 68th street is a cesspool of uninforced illegal parking.

According to Finance: "As of Sunday, March 25, 2007, 09:13 AM we have no record of your vehicle with plate CLM8132 NY being towed by the NYC Sheriff, Marshal or NYPD Violation tow program."

There was a $65 ticket issued this week: CLM8132 7304066787 03/17/2007 NO PARKING-DAY/TIME LIMIT.

Total outstanding due = $245, not enough to be towed.

I plan on filing more 311 complaints on this car and every other car illegally parking on the street that enforcement passes by. I think as an adjunct to posting here everyone should file a 311 complaint.

Ah, we even have Ryttenberg stories here!
Great site!

ADMIN NOTE: This just in from Dept. of Finance:

Just to let you know the Sheriff's Office no longer enforces court orders for vehicle seizures within the following boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, & Queens. The Sheriff's Office only executes these court ordered vehicle seizures in Staten Island two days a week. Private businesses "City Marshal's" perform these functions citywide EXCEPT for Staten Island.

I assume you are referring to orders based on failure to pay your child support or another sort of court order to cover a defaulted debt.

They (NYC Sheriff) still do scofflaw tows to the best of my knowledge.

Actually, last I checked that was the Sheriff's main responsibility... scofflaw enforcement.

Don't get me started on City Marshals...

Sorry Musha, I'm not knocking you knowledge but I can assure you the NYC Sheriffs Office does not do scofflaw tows in Manhattan,Brooklyn,Queens,or the Bronx in the last few years. The reason behind it is that the property executions (court orders) for those vehicle are now only given to Private City Marshals. How do I know this ...I've been stuck in the Sheriffs Office for about 15 years getting that same Bi-Weekly insult that you get.

why are you blurring plates of non law enforcement people with bogus and expired placards? This is ridiculous.

It's not the web site blurring the plate....the person submitting the photo altered it, maybe he/she thought they were protecting the vehicle owner some how.

This is not a cop and a bogus placard, no need for blurring.

I placed the #55 comment and since Dick Tracy the original poster didn't blur it I have to agree with the "Why Blur it" comments on Bogus Plaques

Message to efficient streets

I am with NYPD and also do work with the Rockland SPCC. They do not have a parking placard so you surely could not have seen a Rockland SPCC Placard around Grand Central. Just for the record

...I gave up...cant beat them join them...I got a bogus parking tag today...the lazy police wont ticket me...come on in, the waters fine...

The permit originated from 156 William Street in Manhattan under the name of Cort Investigations Bureau, the number is 212-227-0633. Burt Borkan still works there, call after 2PM. He is going to tell you to please have that person arrested; that this person is a rogue. Also to complain about fraud permits process thru the NYC Dept of Investigations, The NYS Commission on Investigations and the NYS Attorney General's Office. You can find all the contact info on thier respective websites. NYPD IAB can't do much becuase the SPCC is not an NYPD office. Also note ALL MEMBERS of that orginization was notified two years ago to cease and assist immediatley, this person that owns that truck can be arrested on the spot for impersonating and police officer, criminal possession of fruadelant documents and copyright infringement of the NYS Seal (which is copyrighted by the way). PS-Not all SPCC's have problems, some actually do work for the State and it's citizens. Don't ask how I know all this. Have a good day.

PS-Not all SPCC's have problems, some actually do work for the State and it's citizen Case Example www.childabuseunit.org

Not all SPCCs try to pass themselves off as a law enforcement entity.

NYPD IAB will forward all info called into them to the proper investigative unit... IAB never turns away a call.

I read with interest your constant barrage of comments about the Kings County SPCC. That unit was forced into dissolution about two years ago due to an ongoing battle with the powers that were. It seems that a few things are missing here: First, they WERE peace Officers; Secone, the few that did their jobs, did their jobs straight with no abuse; Third, this guy with the expired placard should be hung;Fourth,Burt Borkan is no longer with them, the unit is no longer in operation, why hammer on him? thats over with; Fifth, to all those who profess to be the all holier than thou and were better than you types remember this...people who live in glass houses should'nt throw stones, and, why dont you guys 10learn grammar, and, learn to spell things right.

I recognize this illegally parked car. i live on that block. the number of privileged parkers in the quadrant of east 65th to east 68th st, bounded by Park Avenue and 1st Ave is out of hand. There are hundreds and hundreds of them every day. Some with fake placards, teachers, firemen, policemen, clergy, DOT placards, court officer placards, doctors from the neighboring hospitals, diplomats, and on and on. many park in front of fire hydrants, in metered spots without depositing money. It is out of hand. It is corrosive to democracy and it needs to STOP AND STOP NOW. The politicians are in cahoots with these privileged parkers so it is very difficult to stop it. We have to keep publishing photos with license plates and placards of the cars visible for all to see.