I'm a Grinch? I'm not the one putting pseudo-tickets on people's cars so they get irritated (even if momentarily so) on their way back to the car.
Why not grab the good will on the front end when they park? If they want the positive PR, just put a sign on all the parking meters that reads, "Free Parking December 24 - December 26 courtesy, Hackensack Mayor and PD. Merry Christmas"?
There you go! Great suggestion. I was just surprised about how NOBODY here could cut the PD a break for trying to do a nice thing.
My daughter used to live in Mahwah, NJ. When we’d go there to visit at Christmas, my husband would go downtown to get a haircut. He was shocked to see the barber shop all laid out with an open bar for the clients and the police looking the other way. I guess it’s a custom there.