The Police Department will continue to allow precinct commanders to ignore parking rules, refusing to implement one of the major placard abuse reforms recommended by city probers earlier this year, Streetsblog has learned.
The NYPD quietly informed the Department of Investigation of its decision to maintain the controversial “self-enforcement zones” in a letter sent in July responding to the recommendations made by the anti-corruption watchdog in its April report.
“The Department declines to eliminate self-enforcement zones,” NYPD Legal Bureau Inspector William Gallagher wrote, dispensing with the recommendation in just one sentence. (The existence of the letter was not previously known to the public until Streetsblog obtained it.)…