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Old 05-16-2013, 07:14 PM
 
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I think it is messed up how the cops can find the time to bother homeless people and give people parking tickets but don't give a crap about all the people speeding by my son's elementary school at 50 mph every morning and afternoon. They just sit there at the intersection looking, and let t happen. But as soon as somebody park for a couple of minutes by the curb, at the school to pick up their kid, they are fast to honk their horn, turn on the sirens, and threaten to ticket them. You wonder where the priorities are.
Their priorities are whatever the mayor says they are. If they are told to write 300 parking tickets a month, they are not going to worry about moving violations much.
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Old 05-16-2013, 09:51 PM
 
Location: Wicker Park/East Village area
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If the police see them they will be told to move on.

Don't count on it, I'm sure it has happened, but mostly they let them be.
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