Comments on: Motorcycles Parking Legally, Still Getting Ticketed

By: Capt M-Plate

Capt M-Plate — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:55:15 +0000

Pete…the answer (though a rhetorical question) is YES.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:43:44 +0000

Is the CPD so incompetent that bogus tickets are counted towards an officer’s “activity”? I would think they would be penalized for too many overturned tickets. Then again, most people who receive a bullshit ticket don’t even bother to contest it.

It would be nice if the officers in the nice parts of town would refrain from writing tickets altogether and harass the beggars instead.

By: DoR Employee

DoR Employee — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:11:10 +0000

What gives MRL is the simple fact that the CPD write tickets they know can’t stand up to review on Purpose.

They write them to turn in to show “activity” in Districts that have Zero Crime during their shift that they actually want to fight.

By: MRL

MRL — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:40:31 +0000

I’ve had this happen to me a number of times. The most frequent was a ticket that I’d get parked behind the library on Plymouth Court. It was a “loop parking” violation — one that prohibits parking in the loop on weekdays but not weekends (i.e., how you can park on Wacker on the weekend) — the only problem: Plymouth Court wasn’t one of the streets listed!!

I got about a dozen of those. I’ve also had the “parking outside of a designated space,” which I twice successfully fought — once needing a hearing. I told the Administrative Law Judge “I was parked outside of a metered space . . . THAT WAS EXACTLY THE POINT.” He tossed it.

When is this harassment going to stop? I don’t hear similar stories of cars getting COMPLETELY BOGUS tickets. What gives?

By: Dona Reale

Dona Reale — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:22:12 +0000

Shame on these cops for their lack of understanding of the law and not knowing well when to issue a ticket or not! Good job on Largos for fighting back.

By: DoR Employee

DoR Employee — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:51:40 +0000

I have been waiting for something like this story to break on this topic.

The Admin Notice shown in the Tribune Video is for a dismissal of “No Parking/Standing Anytime.” And any cop with Half a Cranium should know better than to issue for that if there are no signs. The Other biggie they like to write is “Outside of Metered space” but since there are no lines on the ground that designate the metered space, and the city has not yet amended the ordinance to include paybox signs to be the beginning/end of the space, you can not legally write it outside of a City Pay Lot.

Now there is a loop parking restriction…but you can only issue that between 6am and 6pm Mon-Fri (no holidays and not on weekends).

The CPD should not be allowed to write parking tickets anymore.