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Posted on 11/03/2025 2:33:32 AM PST by Libloather
Some street snitches are raking in close to $1 million apiece from the city just by recording videos of idling trucks and buses spewing air pollution, prompting local pols to try to curb the staggering payouts.
“The days of the six-figure bounty hunters are over,” Queens City Councilman James Gennaro, who chairs the Environmental Committee, told The Post.
“We’re not doing that anymore,” he said. “The program has become an occupation. The program was not intended to be an occupation.”
The Big Apple’s Citizen Idling Complaint Program was launched in 2019, with the city even recruiting ’80s punk rocker Billy Idol to promote the effort the next year.
“Billy never idles. Neither should you. Idling is polluting. Cut your engine off,” the rock star urged in an ad campaign.
Under the program, citizen enforcers are awarded 25% of the fines pursued by the Department of Environmental and substantiated by the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, or OATH.
If the tattletales go to OATH directly, they can receive 50 percent of any substantiated offense.
With fines ranging from $350 to $2,000 for idling and 95% of the complaints substantiated, the rewards add up and have turned the streets into gold for the Big Apple’s citizen enforcers.
According to DEP records obtained by The Post, here are the top-earning enviro-enforcers who have earned an “assumed” total amount of more than $500,000 and approaching $1 million:
Ernest Welde of the East Village, Manhattan: $895,737
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You wanted snitches you got snitches.
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The Big Apple’s “Citizen Idling Complaint Program” was launched in 2019, with the cityrecruiting ’80s punk rocker Billy Idol to promote the effort. “Billy never idles. Neither should you. Idling is polluting. Cut your engine off,” the rock star urged in an ad campaign. Under the program, citizen enforcers are awarded 25% of the fines pursued by the Environmental agency and substantiated by the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, or OATH. If the tattletales go to OATH directly, they can receive 50 percent of any substantiated offense.
<><>Some street snitches are raking in close to $1 million apiece just by recording videos of idling trucks and buses spewing air pollution, prompting local pols to try to curb the staggering payouts.
<><>“The days of the six-figure bounty hunters are over,” Queens City Councilman James Gennaro, who chairs the Environmental Committee, told The NY Post.
<><>“We’re not doing that anymore,” he said. “The program has become an occupation. The program was not intended to be an occupation.”
Sounds to me paying bounties work.
The city council just wants all the money for themselves.
the truckers should just boycott NY and see this bs disappear El’Quicko...
Probably still cheaper than having fulltime staff hacks do it.
To me this is one the biggest quality of life issues possible, never being able to relax and be yourself, the government and someone watching every little thing you do waiting to jump on you.
Constantly being watched by citizens in the public space hoping to capitalize on a moment, to fine you for profit, no wonder people are uneasy when they enter the public spaces of modern America.
Yes, a modern version of this (though tech does the lion’s share of it now):
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/creating-a-culture-of-denunciation/
Mamma I will cure the truck problem by crushing capitalism.
And furnished them the iphones too no doubt.
To a large degree females performed as the eyes and ears of government when they entered the previous male places of work, suddenly factories, plants, construction, the military, corporate life all had stasi employees in the workforce and the government was notified for violations of new rules, regulations, and laws, and lawyers and lawsuits became a part of life for employers.
Americans had to start adapting to walking on eggshells and daily facing government lawyers and contingency fee lawyers about 55 years ago or so, and trust and productivity have suffered ever since.
you gave me an idea, i’ll make an app called ‘Isnitch’, it’s like uber but for people who want to be a karen and make money thru a central snitching system that will give the ‘isnitcher’ a portion of the fines collected.
50% bonus for turning in your relatives.
Make sure you keep that misogyny in check there.
The government incentivized snitching and wound up with professional snitchers.
WTH did they expect?
They aren’t happy with 50% or even 75% of the fines coming in, they want 100% or nothing.
Anything is better than nothing, but you can see the greed and envy shining through clear as, well, the air they want to fine for.
There was none in my post, you are seeing something in yourself, you must have missed the incredible disruption to the nation as the lawsuits and investigations and suits from the government that led to where we are today, there was massive forced restructuring in work places to adapt to what the female found acceptable in the work place, from physical conditions to photos on desks and calendars, to affirmative action and quotas for hiring and promotions.
If you are too young or wasn’t a heavy news reader during the early decades of it in the private sector then you might at least have watched what it did to the military.
and another reason not to go to NYC
“ To me this is one the biggest quality of life issues possible, never being able to relax and be yourself, the government and someone watching every little thing you do waiting to jump on you.”
Just like Red China
I think the Nazi and Soviet citizens had this problem of constantly being watched, often by their own children.
The vast majority of cell phone users either are unaware of or do not care that their cell phones are major monitoring devices. They track movement, allow monitoring of calls and texts, make available pictures and recordings as well as a contact list of associates. And I personally know of one case where a person was recorded with their own phone and that recording was sent to yet another person just to let everyone know it could be done.
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