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No, this is not at all my experience in Los Angeles, and certainly not with LAPD. I've gotten tickets here, but one was on the freeway from CHP, and the other
by waterlesscloud 13y ago
No, this is not at all my experience in Los Angeles, and certainly not with LAPD.
I've gotten tickets here, but one was on the freeway from CHP, and the other was in Burbank (which is a different city and police department). In Burbank the officer was explicitly waiting for someone to do what I did, which kind of annoyed me.
But in Los Angeles itself, LAPD has left me completely alone. I joke that unless you're actively stabbing someone in front of them, they have better things to do.
Parking is another matter. There's a parking enforcement department, and they are quite aggressive, 24 hours a day.
- mixmastamyk 13y agoFor those of us not prone to drug sales, extortion, murder, etc... traffic and parking are our only interaction with local PD. So in most cases it sounds like you are actually in agreement despite the comment above. Most of us have very little interaction with LAPD, since they maintain low numbers of officers for a city its size. But when it comes from extracting $$$ from citizens they are a well-oiled machine. You can expect a parking ticket within 15 minutes anywhere in the city. Santa Monica (a different city) is even more aggressive.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoI'm saying I've never gotten a traffic ticket from LAPD. In my experience traffic enforcement is pretty lax in Los Angeles.