It’s long past time for the city to rein in cops and other public servants who believe parking laws and tolls don’t apply to them.
that would include 100 new traffic agents, along with 16 officers dedicated exclusively to cracking down on placard abuse by city workers. “Before anyone thinks it’s a clever idea to misuse our placards, my advice is you better get to know where our impound lots are — because you’re going to end up visiting them,” de Blasio. “NYPD commissioner James O’Neill has made very clear he won’t tolerate any of his employees using their placards inappropriately. And the same will go for the school system.
It never happened. Two years later, in the spring of 2019, the city announced a new crackdown, promising a three-strikes policy that would purportedly lead to offending city workers losing their permits. But by September 2020, the get-tough policy had resulted in a grand total of two placards being revoked.
Around the same time, with the pandemic raging, the de Blasio administration quietly threw in the towel, axing all 116 members of the placard-abuse unit and zeroing out its budget. An investigation by Streetsblog found that calls to the 311 system to report illegal parking, speeding and other traffic violations areWe elected a new mayor in 2021, but Eric Adams had already made clear he would not be a reliable ally of the safe-streets movement.
“There’s one rule in this city; there’s not going to be a rule just for Eric Adams, the first African American borough president,” he said at a. “I’m the break-the-car-culture elected official. I believe it, I live it, I don’t just talk about it, I live through it. But I’m clear on one thing: We’re not going to have two standards, folks.”
Adams has apparently carried that defiant attitude from Downtown Brooklyn to City Hall, where laws passed by the City Council to report on the extent of placard abuse every six months have
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