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In Los Angeles the policy is just to parking-ticket the hell out of drivers at every opportunity. The 'unofficial' policy of parking enforcement here is to tic

In Los Angeles the policy is just to parking-ticket the hell out of drivers at every opportunity. The 'unofficial' policy of parking enforcement here is to ticket everything you see, regardless of whether or not the car is actually in violation of something. They know it's far cheaper for drivers to just pay the fines than it is to fight the tickets. Arguing a parking ticket can literally take several entire days. Forget just contesting them in writing, the written appeals are automatically denied every single time. I don't even think anyone reads them, there's probably just some flunky at a desk who opens them and immediately sends them back with a pre-printed denial letter.

HillaryBriss 10y ago
Yes. And since those actually are city infractions, LA truly does rake in the cash on parking tickets.
bpchaps 10y ago
Somebody should really fight the LA ticket system in bulk. It's what I'm doing in Chicago, and it's actually not as much money as you'd think it is. Don't get me wrong, it's still a lot and is about as predatory as it gets, but it's not in the billions, compared to many other things. Of the parsable ones I have, the total since 2009 up until March of this year, there's been a total of $764,775,070 marked as "paid". Tickets marked with a bankruptcy flag has added up to 18,433,390.0. Wanted to finish up some code to get better output, but I have to run.
kmonsen 10y ago
I visited LA once, and parked for less than two hours. Managed to get a ticket even though a studied the sign for a few min to try to establish it was a legal parking. It was really hard to figure out if it was legal or not. Of course I just paid it.
- HillaryBriss 10y ago
  yeah. i've had the same problems in Santa Monica and LA. i've heard about a couple of apps for this sort of thing, e.g. http://www.parksafela.com http://www.parksafela.com

HillaryBriss 10y ago

Yes. And since those actually are city infractions, LA truly does rake in the cash on parking tickets.

bpchaps 10y ago

Somebody should really fight the LA ticket system in bulk. It's what I'm doing in Chicago, and it's actually not as much money as you'd think it is. Don't get me wrong, it's still a lot and is about as predatory as it gets, but it's not in the billions, compared to many other things. Of the parsable ones I have, the total since 2009 up until March of this year, there's been a total of $764,775,070 marked as "paid". Tickets marked with a bankruptcy flag has added up to 18,433,390.0. Wanted to finish up some code to get better output, but I have to run.

kmonsen 10y ago

I visited LA once, and parked for less than two hours. Managed to get a ticket even though a studied the sign for a few min to try to establish it was a legal parking. It was really hard to figure out if it was legal or not. Of course I just paid it.

HillaryBriss 10y ago
yeah. i've had the same problems in Santa Monica and LA. i've heard about a couple of apps for this sort of thing, e.g. http://www.parksafela.com http://www.parksafela.com