At Some Point Isn’t It Just Easier To Simply Do Your Job?

Even with “productivity goals” and a kibosh on the old fake license plate scam, traffic enforcement agents still find a way to slack off:

Four NYPD traffic agents were caught on the wrong side of the law yesterday — after they were busted writing dozens of phony tickets, police said.

Investigators with the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau caught the agents — Davey Griffin, 30, Raheem King, 26, Julian Fisher, 24, and Gregory Baird, 56 – allegedly writing tickets for parked vehicles hours after spotting an infraction, to cover up for the fact they were eating lunch or sitting in their cars rather than actually working.

Some tickets were issued to cars that were not illegally parked.

The agents “were on extended meal periods. They were in uniform. They were on foot. They stayed in one place. They didn’t do their jobs,” said IAB Chief Charles Campisi.

He said the men acted out of pure laziness.

“They have to show they’re going out and working. They would go and hide and fool their supervisors that they were working all day,” Campisi said.

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Typically, agents create tickets by scanning the bar code on a car’s registration with a handheld computer, leaving a printout on the windshield. The data is later uploaded into a central computer. But tickets for out-of-state vehicles, which don’t have New York bar codes, must be handwritten.

Investigators followed the four agents around on June 21, and spotted them jotting down license-plate numbers — usually at the beginning of their shift — but not actually writing the tickets until much later, when they were lazing about in their cars or in restaurants eating, the probers said. But the time code on the filed paperwork would make it appear as if they were working through their entire shifts.