Information Liberation – by Chris
The New York Post is reporting the NYPD’s slowdown in issuing parking tickets is “costing the city $10m a week in revenue.”
From the perspective of the state’s tax-victims, that means taxpayers are saving $10m a week.
The New York Post reports:
The city is losing about $10 million per week on parking ticket revenue because of the NYPD work slowdown, according to budget watchdog estimates.
There were just 1,191 parking summonses handed out between Dec. 29 and Jan. 4 — down nearly 93 percent from the same period last year, when 16,008 of the dreaded orange envelopes were slapped on windshields.
Based on the weekly average ticket take of $10.5 million in fiscal 2014, the Citizens Budget Commission estimated the reduction could have bled about $10 million from city coffers.
And that doesn’t include other revenue losses from similar reductions in moving violations and court summonses during the slowdown, which is now in its third week.
“While losing $10-$11 million in a week is real money, in the context of the city’s $77 billion annual budget it’s a very small amount,” said Doug Turetsky, of the Independent Budget Office. “But if the losses continue over weeks and months, the effect on the budget becomes more substantial.”
If you do the math, the state is looting people for $546m a year from parking tickets alone. The fact this is meager considering the city’s budget is just further evidence how insanely large their budget is.
I covered the other day how New York police working for the port authority are making over $300,000 a year, that money doesn’t materialize out of thin air, it has to be stolen from the general public before they can gorge on it.
This police “slowdown” is the best thing that has happened to New York taxpayers in ages, may it continue in perpetuity until all the cops and the bureaucrats they serve are out of work.
I can’t imagine living life without a gun. I can imagine it would feel like you’ve been neutered and have little fight left in you. Well, quite frankly, without a gun, all you are is a bullet receptacle. So keep walking around with your stupid signs for stupid causes or wake up and smell the coffee. Either that or just pour yourself another cup of “Shut the f*ck up!
What about all those victims? Parking must be anarchy and down right dangerous.
Owning a car in NYC is stupid unless you’re one of the few who has a driveway next to their house, which is only seen in post-WW2 houses, and there’s still no place to park at your destination.
I got around by subway or bicycle, and if I had to do something that required a car I’d bring a friend to sit in the driver’s seat while I double-parked.
Yea, I’ve been to NYC. I’d rather walk than drive a car. Actually, by walking you’d probably get to your destination faster.
$10 million in parking tickets every week sounds like a crime to me, and the taxpayers aren’t saving anything, because NYC will get their money one way or another.
“The city is losing about $10 million per week on parking ticket revenue because of the NYPD work slowdown, according to budget watchdog estimates.”
So basically the NY Post is saying that cops are only revenue generators and if they don’t collect their protection money, the city goes down.
Wow…That sounds like a group of gangsters to me. Why are they not arrested and imprisoned?
“The fact this is meager considering the city’s budget is just further evidence how insanely large their budget is.”
Key word: insanely.
They’re gangsters. Of course they have an insanely large budget.
Root word: insane.
If you go back to 1927 you will find that the high court in America ruled that on street parking meters are illegal. And can only be used in parking areas off street. So the tickets are illegal from on street meters as is. So what are they saving the city? As the citys act is illegal. They are for once only doing there jobs in the legal maner the right way. So the cops have finally done something right there. Way it should be. Yes on street metters for parking are illegal. Your high court ruled that years ago. So the city should be giving all that money back to the citizen there.
Thinking about this. The American police at best do a 1/2 ask job. Now there union tells them they need to go back to doing 1/2 of there 1/2 ask job to have law inforcment. So does that mean we need 1/4 that number of good cops to do a good job? And get the job done right? If so 3/4 of them need to be out of a job. Just keep the good ones that can do a job and fire all those that pull a job on the job right?