{"id":5282,"date":"2009-08-20T06:53:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T11:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5282"},"modified":"2009-08-20T06:53:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T11:53:19","slug":"cheaper_easier_collars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/08\/cheaper_easier_collars.html","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper, Easier Collars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another possibility is that they&#8217;re just being more &#8220;efficient&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/riverdalepress.com\/atf.php?sid=9610\">hanging out and waiting for every tiny infraction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Merchants and drivers in Riverdale and Kingsbridge say an ongoing city ticket blitz is bad for business &#8212; but the NYPD denies that there&#8217;s a ticket blitz at all.<\/p>\n<p>By the NYPD&#8217;s count, the numbers of parking tickets given out this year are down by a sizeable margin across the city and a considerable one in the Bronx, with 874,541 tickets issued so far, compared with 905,428 during the same period in 2008 &#8212; 122,055 of those in the Bronx compared with 136,926 during the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>How is it possible to reconcile what many people say they see on the streets with the police&#8217;s accounting? How do the numbers from the last two years match up with those over a longer period of time? A representative of the NYPD&#8217;s Deputy Commissioner, Public Information says the police no longer have data from 2007, so they say there&#8217;s no way of knowing.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another possibility is that they&#8217;re just being more &#8220;efficient&#8221; by hanging out and waiting for every tiny infraction: Merchants and drivers in Riverdale and Kingsbridge say an ongoing city ticket blitz is bad for business &#8212; but the NYPD denies that there&#8217;s a ticket blitz at all. By the NYPD&#8217;s count, the numbers of parking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrr","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5283,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions\/5283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}