Provision of Hand-held ticketing devices to Traffic Enforcement Police Officers, that’s what.
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Everything about this is wrong. Terribly, terribly wrong.
I know, fuck using quick-ticketing to replace lost revenue to support City services. Fuck it. I’d rather not have streets or sanitation or that bullshit. Our local economy doesn’t rely on that shit. Let’s use the Chicago model. Um, of quick ticketing. With handhelds.
Wait!
how come that site says it’s zero jobs? and how else are you going to get cheapskate americans to make things run more efficient except by pretending it into a big dramatic emergency? its like when you want a toddler to pick up their room you make it into a game
I think it should be legal to kill parking enforcement officers if you can catch them ticketing you — it’s not like they are human or anything
What is your idea of stimulus, economics expert Erica Barnett?
I would have thought a pro-bike and pedestrian anti-driver person such as yourself would appreciate something like this.
I’ve always thought the city could pay for all sorts of repaving and improvements if they fully enforced parking laws. I know some areas are already strictly patrolled partolled but most are not.
Psst. Tickets could pay for bike lanes. Psst.
Why don’t they just arrest jaywalkers downtown – that worked before during our last big recession.
And arrest cars that go into the intersection when they can’t clear it.
Problem solved and revenue up.
Round up all the gangsters-of-color infesting Seattle and put them to work in slave camps.
Yes, yes, it all makes sense. The way out of this recession is through a more effective means of fining citizens.
i’m pretty sure i already see them carrying said devices around.
Why don’t they combine the police with the IRS. They’re the same thing, aren’t they?
More nanny-state bullshit from the nanniest city in the nanniest state in the USA.
Don’t raise taxes. Just raise fees until everything is privatized, and we all live in company towns.
It looks like left-wing cop-hating trumps left-wing car-hating. Good to know.
P.S. to #15: Huh what? What does parking enforcement have to do with horizontal monopolies? In the soviet utopia can anyone park anywhere?
I’m not opposed to the use of such devices, but this doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that will create jobs. Particularly since it actually makes each officer more efficient at doing their job.
Wouldn’t that make a force reduction possible? Isn’t that the opposite of creating jobs?
ooh, @17, nice idea.
Let’s actually lay off some cops during a recession, since they’re a luxury and spend way too much time busting people for pot since they’re not busy.
@ 17 – Don’t worry. On the off, off chance that the City becomes more efficient at something, which… is unlikely, they won’t be cutting jobs.
Anyone care to wade through all the City’s press releases to identify the last time they announced job cuts and rolled back taxes due to a newly discovered efficiency?