This Jeep has been making it a habit to park in Astoria, Queens just two feet away from a fire hydrant near my building practically all week. He also doesn't move on off-side parking days, so the street cleaner has to move around him. The street cleaner told my husband that he won't get a ticket, but we can complain to 311. There's an NYPD Bronx placard in the window. Perhaps they feel entitled to park there. They apparently never get tickets for off-side parking violations or for parking within two feet of a hydrant. When I call 311 to file a complaint, the Jeep disappears and then returns within a few hours to the same spot. Flagrant abuse of the privilege of being on the NYPD force and blatantly inconsiderate of the safety fellow NYC residents.

It doesn't look like getting rid of the Deputy Inspector troubles by multiple scandals did anything to improve the integrity of the dishonest cops in the Dirty Five-Two.

Why is it so hard to find a few honest cops in New York City? Other cities actually have law enforcement officers that enforce the law instead of breaking it all day every day in public!

[moderator's note: this NYPD Restricted permit has two license plate numbers written in, which is also a no-no]

Remember how New York got crime under control? They applied the Broken Windows theory.

In 1990, William J. Bratton became head of the New York City Transit Police. Bratton described George L. Kelling as his "intellectual mentor", and implemented zero tolerance of fare-dodging. Police commissioner Howard Safir also adopted the strategy more widely in New York City in 1993, under the rubrics of "zero tolerance" and "quality of life".

What does the Broken Windows theory say?
If disorder goes unchecked, a vicious cycle begins. First, it kindles a fear of crime among residents, who respond by staying behind locked doors. Their involvement in the neighborhood declines; people begin to ignore rowdy and threatening behavior in public. They cease to exercise social regulation over little things like litter on the street, loitering strangers, or truant schoolchildren. When law-abiding eyes stop watching the streets, the social order breaks down and criminals move in.

And what does this have to do with the Dirty Five-Two?
THE COPS ARE THE ONES ACTUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR MUCH OF THE DISORDER HERE. Instead of improving quality of life, they're cheating the law to give themselves special "privileges." Every time they do it, the undermine the moral authority of the law, and show that we may not be able to rely on all of our law enforcement officers to act honestly.

When they do this in broad daylight, it forces you to wonder what other dishonest things they're doing when they think nobody's looking.

And it all creates a culture of taking whatever you think you can get away with! The disorder is CAUSED by the Dirty Five-Two!

The Dirty Five-Two lets dirty cops park in illegally and very dangerous locations every day of the year.

Why would Christmas Eve be any different?

See picture - one more dirty cop putting everybody's life at risk by blocking a fire hydrant for his own, personal convenience. Apparently he couldn't be bothered to walk two blocks from Webster, where there are ALWAYS available parking spaces.

Another blocked fire hydrant.
Another dirty cop in the Dirty Five-Two.

Enough said.

We haven't seen this guy before. It's yet one more dirty cop frequenting the Dirty Five-Two. This corrupt precinct welcomes one and all of the dirty cops in the NYPD to come park illegally. No worries about somebody enforcing the law up here!

Parked in the crosswalk? Routine in the Dirty Five-Two.

Parked too close to the fire hydrant? Hey, what's the Dirty Five-Two care if yet another building burns to the ground? It's been over a year since the Halloween Fire took out half of Bainbridge Avenue.

Using a placard that wasn't even issued to the vehicle that's using it? You won't see the Dirty Five-Two do anything about it.

You see, if you want to break the law, all you have to do is advertise that it's your job to enforce the law. They have no shame - they have no problem at all showing everybody that they're the ones breaking the laws they're paid to enforce.

At 9:15 pm, a private vehicle was observed parked 5 feet from a fire hydrant, using an NYPD placard from a different precinct to avoid being ticketed. (Reminder, the LAW requires 15 feet from a fire hydrant.)

This fact was called into 311, with complete details to identify the vehicle (make/model/license plate...). At 10:38 pm, the precinct closed out the complaint, stating: "The Police Department responded and upon arrival those responsible for the condition were gone."

But they weren't gone. The vehicle was observed in the exact same location at midnight.

Then it was observed again, STILL there at 7:50 am. At this point, it was joined by another illegally parked private vehicle. This second vehicle did not have a placard. It was ticketed, even while the vehicle ILLEGALLY using the NYPD placard to park ILLEGALLY was STILL not ticketed.

The Dirty Five-Two came to this location TWICE, observed an ILLEGALLY parked vehicle, and REFUSED to take the action their job requires. THIS IS THE JOB WE PAY THEM TO PERFORM!

This double standard is unethical. It is illegal. And it is SHOCKING, since this precinct is ALREADY UNDER INVESTIGATION for screwing around with parking tickets!

When you're under investigation for doing something wrong, and you decide to keep doing it wrong, you can't blame anybody for the consequences. These guys can have no complaint when they are finally HELD ACCOUNTABLE.

Wow!

Sometimes I think they have a competition going on up here to see who can violate the most laws in public or something.

This is a private vehicle (with some really lame specialty plates) using a Restricted placard from an entirely different borough. Somehow, he managed to park illegally at the hydrant AND in the crosswalk, simultaneously.

No vehicle of an honest, tax-paying citizen would be spared from either of these violations with our ticket-happy NYPD. They just don't like to follow the law they enforce on everyone else.

So, as always, the Dirty Five-Two did not write a ticket. We'll just have to wait for IAB to catch up to him.

Waste of our tax money, though. We have to pay an honest cop in IAB to do the work that another dirty cop at the local precinct was already paid to do!

There it is... if you want to complain about your taxes, here is a clear example of how the NYPD steals your money!

And there is absolutely no excuse for this insulting laziness. This was clearly not official business of any type - there was no police activity on the block, nor is this near any precinct.

Not that it matters, but it wasn't even late when this vehicle parked (it wasn't there when I walked by earlier, so it parked between 6 and 9:30 pm). I passed other LEGAL spaces that were available only 2-3 blocks away on Mosholu Parkway.

These dirty cops just like to show off that they *think* they don't have to follow the law. Do they think they look cool stealing our money, and spending it on fancy cars that they leave at illegal and dangerous locations they view as their personal parking spaces?

Of course, they are not above the law. They'll have to learn the hard way when IAB tracks down their supervisors.

The Dirty Five-Two is still letting their buddies block fire hydrants, putting the lives of neighborhood residents at risk.

They are not protecting our community. They're just using our neighborhood as their personal parking lot, even when it puts us in danger.

This personal vehicle was using a restricted placard from another precinct on a residential street where there was clearly no "official business." Observed at 1:15 am, there were still 2 available parking spaces on Mosholu Parkway too - the individual who blocked this hydrant broke the law as a matter of sheer laziness. There is no excuse.

Fire the criminals, before somebody dies in a fire!

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 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.

Another dirty cop, blocking a fire hydrant.

Same dirty precinct, letting him put everyone in danger.

Nuf said.

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.

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!