The ‘Disconnect’: City Traffic Cops Ignore Severe Parking Scofflaws

One database doesn’t know what the other database is doing!

On any given day, hundreds of vehicles that are eligible to be towed away for unpaid parking tickets receive yet another orange badge of dishonor on the windshield from a city enforcement officer — yet the car remains on the street, a new data analysis reveals.

Nearly 5,000 towable cars were, in fact, not towed away over a recent 90-day period, even after receiving more tickets, according to the analysis of city data by parking and police accountability advocate Justin Sherwood…

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