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Dozen Boston parking-enforcement officers may have been writing fake tickets to get off work
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Well they saw that very
Well they saw that very little was done by the state when state troopers did a similar thing to get paid for hours they didn't work. A couple were prosecuted but most were just shuffled around to different barracks like pedophile priests. Glad the city seems to be taking it more seriously so far than the state did.
I’ll believe it..
I’ll believe the city is taking it seriously when I see a serious effort to prosecute for whatever criminal charges (fraud? Perjury?) are applicable, not just “oh well, they don’t work for us any more so nothing we can do.”
Data analysis
Data analysis of ticketing patterns among the enforcement officers should have revealed this. Obviously no one is performing any sort of quality control.
https://reason.org/data-visualization/what-happens-to-taxpayer-funded-pe...
"Members who are convicted of a crime relating to their employment may have their pension benefits forfeited by court order. In addition, any dollars in the members pension account is available to pay for any court-ordered restitution for economic loss to the State or local government due to the members crime."
lol
As if the city can afford to hire data scientists for exploratory research. We're at minimum a solid 2 decades out from anything like this being standard.
Maybe that explains why too often….
…. when I 311 an illegally parked vehicle the report back is “all clear” even when I can see the vehicle still illegally parked in the same spot.
These crooks not only cheat the city on pay, they cheat us all by not keeping the streets safer by ticketing and towing genuinely illegally parked vehicles.
Pro tip
Contacting 311 with an immediate problem will not get an immediate response. 911 gets someone out there to deal with the issue.
The best 311 can do is to document a chronic issue- like delivery people parking in the bus lanes on Brighton Avenue while they are picking up deliveries. One car at one time? No, useless.
Wrong.
As usual.
Fake tickets nothing new
Years ago I got a notice for an unpaid ticket that I never got. Fortunately, I was able to show that I hadn't been in Boston that day due to appointments elsewhere. I've always thought it was retribution for the one I successfully fought - I'd been ticketed before I had a chance to get out of the car and put money in the meter.
Do your job
you reactive lazy slackers. Look at the majority of 311 reports are illegal parking. And even at that they close them out by saying “all clear” or “noted”.
I’d like to see how many tickets are issued without a 311 complaint.