Slowdown has cost city over $46M in lost revenue

The New York Post ^ | January 12, 2015 | Michael Gartland and Leonard Greene

[Timber Rattler]

It’s the high price of the NYPD slowdown. Feuding between cops and City Hall has already cost the city more than $46 million in lost parking-ticket revenue — staggering losses that could take a bite out of critical programs and services, critics charged Sunday.

“It’s not a natural disaster — this is man made,” said Glen Bolofsky, president of Parkingticket.com, a ticket-fighting service which crunched the numbers.

Because ticket revenue is accounted for in the city’s budget — $518 million a year, according to a November 2014 Office of Management and Budget report — the spectrum of a budgetary shortfall has become real.

“There obviously are some financial ramifications,” said Councilman Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn).

The drain amounts to more dough than the city lost in ticket revenue to Superstorm Sandy — because the feds eventually reimbursed those millions.

[SunkenCiv]

has already cost the city more than $46 million in lost parking-ticket revenue

Way to keep the eye on the ball. A.K.A. DeBlasio Must Be Removed!

The slain police officers: Rafael Ramos, 40, left, and Wenjian Liu, 32. Credit New York Police Department

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[Protect the Bill of Rights]

All about the revenue.

There’s yer sign.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Good!

[eyeamok]

ticket revenue is accounted for in the city’s budget — $518 million a year,

And the Truth shall set you free!!

Is and always has been a TAX, Do we need an ARMED TAXING AGENCY?? Should Citizens be Taxed at the end of a GUN??

[Flintlock]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

No nuisance taxes!

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.............

[thefactor]

"Slowdown" is a term that the media uses. It implies that the lack of as many arrests and summonses is a deliberate effort by police officers to not do their job. In reality, the NYPD has changed the way cops operate in the wake of the execution of the two officers last month.

They, along with the union, have mandated that two, not one, sector cars must respond to all jobs, no matter how trivial. So you can imagine how that affects response times and ability to go find tickets to write.

You inferred that the cops are working overtime and doing nothing. One thing I can guarantee you is that overtime has been slashed significantly except for truly necessary instances, such as the recent protests.

Yes, there are less arrests. Cops are using their discretion when it comes to low-level offenses. That is understandable when you do not think your job and your bosses have your back. You know you will get sued by the suspect no matter how professionally you handle yourself.

And yes, there are less summonses being written. Cops have never liked writing tickets because it's all about money, not safety. Cops write tickets because if you want a day off for a wedding or an anniversary or your kid's birthday, how many tickets you have written lately is what the bosses look at when determining if you can have the day off. But now, cops are sucking it up and digging in because it's a fight they are willing to fight.

[GOPJ]

Feuding? How insulting. New York cops are fighting for the right to be alive next year... Hiz Honor’s an idiot.

[thefactor]

I’m becoming less and less convinced that a Paris-style attack will happen here in NYC. They just can’t find someone willing to carry out an attack that has a chance of being successful. Once they get here and see the Western style of life they don’t feel like being a martyr. It’s just that simple.

[minnesota_bound]

If the city is depending on money from people by charging them for parking and speeding and talking on the cell phone or loitering then you are that Prince John collecting money using force. Too bad they don’t have a Robin Hood around.

[yldstrk]

Oh it’s all about them, not the taxpayer money they are wasting. Look, I don’t give a hang if they write tickets, I know it’s a money game and I don’t think they should play it. Yes, I think they should drive two to a car always, not drive two cars, that is just because they want to be able to go get a donut whenever they want despite what their partner wants. They should patrol to keep illegal activity underground. Earn their keep, not play some game just because the mayor doesn’t “like” them. Grow up.

[ozarkgirl]

I rarely agree with you but in this case, I have to fully support the officers. Stupid DeBlasio is the cause. He’s had several opportunities to apologize and work with the officers to remedy this situation, instead, he has blasted the NYPD with every opportunity he’s had to defuse the situation. Too bad, and a plus for the community on parking tickets.

[tanknetter]

Here’s how I see it.

The NYPD was villified for engaging in the kind of “Broken Windows” style policing that had a benefit of bringing in a lot of money. Villified to the point where two of their officers were assassinated for it.

Now that they’ve stopped doing something they were villified ( and dying) for, they’re being villified for ... having stopped doing it.

Right.

[thefactor]

We’re obviously not going to agree. But that’s mostly because you have no working knowledge of how the NYPD operates. And that’s fine. I do, so my informed opinion is different than yours. What’s being done now is necessary, both from a safety perspective and a political perspective. The NYPD didn’t politicize policing, the mayor did. now the NYPD has to play that game. Crime is still down on the whole. Shootings are up, but that began over a year ago. More people feel like they can carry guns these days because they don’t fear being stopped.

[yldstrk]

Policing is political by nature. Are you telling me arresting some poor fool selling onesies because of cigarette tax evasion isn’t political?

Anyway, the police should have a work ethic and if they aren’t getting the leadership they want, should lead themselves in a responsible reasonable fashion, not sit around on their butts pouting.

[ozarkgirl]

Two of them got killed, more are being set up to get killed, at least in part because of the leaders of their city. I think they have a reason to pout.

[anoldafvet]

If it came from CNN, does that mean nobody knows about it?

[Nip]

Yep.

The LMSM and NYC have established what the life of their police officers are worth.

What’s the current KIA and WIA total for NYC police in the last 45 days? They are worth less than the 500 million the City expects to make from their day-to-day activity.

Notice they aren’t talking about the impact on the men and women that make up the PD - just the lost of funds.

[yldstrk]

Hey the Mayor didn’t murder them, a murderous thug did.