"The Police Department will continue to allow precinct commanders to ignore parking rules, refusing to implement one of the major placard abuse reforms recommended by city probers earlier this year, Streetsblog has learned. The NYPD quietly informed the Department of Investigation of its decision to maintain the controversial "self-enforcement zones" in a letter sent in July responding to the recommendations made by the anti-corruption watchdog in its April report."
"This puts the precinct commander in control of who writes parking tickets around precinct station houses, where the biggest offenders are ... police officers. The result of self-enforcement has been that cars are everywhere, including on sidewalks, with little regard for pedestrians who need to get through, as Streetsblog has exposed for years, most graphically in its (March) Parking Madness series that ranked various precincts by the egregiousness of their illegal parking."
NYPD will maintain controversial "self-enforcement zones" around precinct houses and declined to end the practice. Ending self-enforcement was the only one of ten DOI recommendations the department refused. Self-enforcement zones let NYPD precinct personnel, rather than civilian traffic enforcement agents, enforce parking rules, placing precinct commanders in control of ticketing. The practice has produced widespread illegal parking, including vehicles parked on sidewalks and obstructing pedestrian passage. Those sidewalk obstructions have drawn federal scrutiny, with the U.S. Department of Justice threatening to sue the city over placard-related blockage and citing a Parking Madness precinct ranking of illegal parking.
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