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This needs to be cut out. Maybe it was somewhat understandable when the NYPD was 5,000 cops and most lived within the confines of NYC. The NYPD is now 35,000 cops. Now you have 350K+ clowns running around flashing cards.
Like anything, if it’s kept to a small circle, it’s usually
OK but when it gets abused, it becomes an issue.
This needs to be cut out. Maybe it was somewhat understandable when the NYPD was 5,000 cops and most lived within the confines of NYC. The NYPD is now 35,000 cops. Now you have 350K+ clowns running around flashing cards.
Like anything, if it’s kept to a small circle, it’s usually
OK but when it gets abused, it becomes an issue.
It's not just NYPD, but LE or PEA won't issue tickets to a whole litany of persons or vehicles.
Doctors with MD plates.
LE and others with various out of city or state plates and or placards.
Others with various placards or whatever from out of city or state...
Friend likes in Yorkville in 80's where parking has become tight of late. Nearly every other night or so a doctor who lives in one of those new condos on Second avenue parks his SUV on a hydrant and remains for one, two or more days. Because of the "MD" placard and notice in windshield neither NYPD or PEA will issue tickets.
People found this out when confronting a PEA after they got tickets for not moving (ASP) but agent totally ignored said SUV that sat for past few days not only blocking hydrant but didn't move for street cleaning either. PEA informed them that he "wasn't allowed" to give such vehicles tickets.
Someone called local precinct and was told yes, that's true; out of "courtesy" they don't ticket vehicles with MD plates and those placards.
This is true all over city. You can call local precinct, 311 or whoever all you want, but unless you've got some serious juice NYPD or PEA will *NOT* issue a ticket to vehicles as mentioned above.
This needs to be cut out. Maybe it was somewhat understandable when the NYPD was 5,000 cops and most lived within the confines of NYC. The NYPD is now 35,000 cops. Now you have 350K+ clowns running around flashing cards.
Like anything, if it’s kept to a small circle, it’s usually
OK but when it gets abused, it becomes an issue.
In old days one could make a phone call to local precinct or otherwise reach out to someone and have ticket "pulled" before it was processed. This was when city still used paper tickets, things have changed.
People got wind of such special treatment and it created some backlash, but NYPD being what NYPD is old customs and such die hard. When city moved to computerized writing and processing of tickets things became trickier.
Once vehicle is scanned that's pretty much it; ticket is written and record of such means it cannot just vanish. OTOH trail leads right back to who wrote said ticket and like this poor guy out on SI offending officer/PEA will be sat down and instructed to show the proper courtesy.
Am shocked it's an officer from SI who's doing this; that takes nerve given high number of NYPD that live in Richmond county.
I've had a PBA card but never needed to use it. I only use it for speeding not for red light. I rarely ran a red light unless it was just too unavoidable at a fast changing light.
However those entitled cops or those who got them should only use them for something major like a speeding ticket or moving violations with points. If they keep doing this they will get too used to running red lights and stop signs and one day they gonna hit somebody and NYPD cannot save their asses.
One time I was parked on the street by the Clinton area in Manhattan and when I was returning to the car I catched a NYC officer finishing up a ticket. He even said "good luck" to me as he was done and walking away in my direction as I was approaching the car.
I thought it was going to be a ticket for some parking violation, though I couldn't think of any I had broken. I look at the ticket and it was because neither of the license plates had the registration stickers. I thought what an idiot, though to be fair at that time (it may still be the case) in New York state they were still using the registration stickers on the license plates. Actually, I think many states are still using the license plates stickers. In Connecticut the state government did away with all sorts of stickers and everything is done electronically, so there is no evidence of anything on any Connecticut registered vehicle except for the license plates themselves. If he would had run my plates, he would had seen in his monitor that my car was up-to-date on everything. It's like the beach parking stickers which some towns no longer use actual stickers you place on the windshield or on the rear bumper, but rather everything is electronically and running the plates show if you bought the parking permit for that season or not.
That was an easy ticket to get dismissed by the courts, but to this day I still wonder if it counted in that cops favor for the supposedly ticket quota they must meet every year.
Instead of this pba card crap it would be so much easier to just give a cop $50 and get on with your day. No wasting time in courts or funding stupid government.
Friend was telling me, he was visiting relatives in Russia, coming back from a restaurant got stopped. Cop asked for money because he smelled booze, for $300 he got a police escort all the way home, in his own car and cop car up front. Not granted, folk there can hold their liquor on another level, they are no Budweiser lightweights like here. The whole thing was beautiful.
Last edited by Dave 92 LSC; 01-17-2024 at 02:21 PM..
Instead of this pba card crap it would be so much easier to just give a cop $50 and get on with your day. No wasting time in courts or funding stupid government.
Friend was telling me, he was visiting relatives in Russia, coming back from a restaurant got stopped. Cop asked for money because he smelled booze, for $300 he got a police escort all the way home, in his own car and cop car up front. Not granted, folk there can hold their liquor on another level, they are no Budweiser lightweights like here. The whole thing was beautiful.
Repaeat after me " nah zda rovh yeh " hahaha..................love it!
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