NYPD 'Slowdown' Saves Taxpayers $10M A Week In Parking Ticket Fines

Chris | InformationLiberation

The New York Post is reporting the NYPD's slowdown in issuing parking tickets is "costing the city $10m a week in revenue."

From the perspective of the state's tax-victims, that means taxpayers are saving $10m a week.

The New York Post reports:

The city is losing about $10 million per week on parking ticket revenue because of the NYPD work slowdown, according to budget watchdog estimates.

There were just 1,191 parking summonses handed out between Dec. 29 and Jan. 4 ? down nearly 93 percent from the same period last year, when 16,008 of the dreaded orange envelopes were slapped on windshields.

Based on the weekly average ticket take of $10.5 million in fiscal 2014, the Citizens Budget Commission estimated the reduction could have bled about $10 million from city coffers.

And that doesn?t include other revenue losses from similar reductions in moving violations and court summonses during the slowdown, which is now in its third week.

?While losing $10-$11 million in a week is real money, in the context of the city?s $77 billion annual budget it?s a very small amount,? said Doug Turetsky, of the Independent Budget Office. ?But if the losses continue over weeks and months, the effect on the budget becomes more substantial.?

If you do the math, the state is looting people for $546m a year from parking tickets alone. The fact this is meager considering the city's budget is just further evidence how insanely large their budget is.

I covered the other day how New York police working for the port authority are making over $300,000 a year, that money doesn't materialize out of thin air, it has to be stolen from the general public before they can gorge on it.

This police "slowdown" is the best thing that has happened to New York taxpayers in ages, may it continue in perpetuity until all the cops and the bureaucrats they serve are out of work.

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The police are doing the people a favor with this slowdown. 9 billion dollars state wide, is collected in fines each year in new york,one can only wonder how much fine money is collected in the whole country. Big change is coming, and coming very soon.

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EPA Levies $438,000 in Fines and Mandatory 'Environmental Projects' on School Bus Contractor for 'Excessive Idling'

By Elizabeth Harrington

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforced nearly $500,000 in fines and mandatory "environmental projects" on a school bus contractor for "excessive idling," and as part of its anti-idling campaign to reduce the carbon footprint of school buses waiting to pick up children for their routes.

"As part of a settlement for alleged excessive diesel idling in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Durham School Services will commit to reduce idling from its school bus fleet of 13,900 buses operating in 30 states," read an EPA press release on Tuesday.

The EPA says an agency inspector two years ago spotted buses of the Durham School Services, the second largest school bus transportation contractor in the country, "idling for extended periods of time" in school lots in New England.

"The inspector observed some buses idling for close to two hours before departing the bus lot to pick up school children," it said. State rules limit idling to three minutes in Connecticut and five minutes in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, where the infractions occurred.

Durham reached a settlement for the violation and agreed to pay $90,000 in penalties. It also agreed to pay for $348,000 worth of environmental projects, including implementing a national training and management program "to prevent excessive idling from its entire fleet of school buses."

Under the program Durham must require its supervisors to "monitor idling in school bus lots, post anti-idling signs in areas where drivers congregate, and notify the school districts it serves of its anti-idling policy."

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