A Street Sweeping and Parking Enforcement Investigation
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Matt Schrader, a broadcast journalism major at USC, wrote to me about a story he’s been putting together over the last few months. He conducted an investigation into what he calls the City of Los Angeles’ street cleaning double standard: failure to sweep streets on the designated days but strict enforcement of cars parked along them. The research revealed widespread governmental miscommunication — allowing the City to rake in millions of dollars every month — and oftentimes from batch, “sweeping” ticketings along streets that were never swept. Research on this story began on August 28, 2009, and needless to say he uncovered some interesting insights on this problem.
My take has always been to read the street signs–carefully. If you choose to ignore them, you do so at your own peril. If you don’t understand them, then…well..maybe you shouldn’t be driving. Naturally, we’re talking about at least 2 different, very large municipal departments. Regardless, in these situations where seemingly only one department is doing its job diligently, do you think it’s fair to get ticketed on streets that never get swept?
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