why doesn't the PPA give a shit?Submitted by getnakedivegotaplan t3_10imy5a in philadelphia
Scout1454 t1_j5fmful wrote
Reply to comment by Fattom23 in why doesn't the PPA give a shit? by getnakedivegotaplan
Having everyone calling 911 doesn't make it inconvenient for PPD. It clogs up 911 lines, so that people having actual emergencies won't be answered as quickly.
If all those people lobbied their council members to establish a non emergency line for Police instead of calling 911, that would be a more reasonable idea.
Or lobby the PPA to have an illegal parking phone # that people could call and PPA could send out a person to issue a ticket. They are ruthlessly efficient, and it would probably work well as parking is their main mission anyway
Fattom23 t1_j5fnt4d wrote
So, once we convince city council to change the way Philadelphians have to request city services or convince the PPA to take on problems that are well-established not to be theirs, can we then request that the city do their job and give us safe street crossings for people not in cars? Or will
We're repeatedly told by the city that routing non-emergency calls through 911 is the way they want to do it. If it's more efficient like they say, cool. If it's not, that's not an excuse for us to not request city services; they need to change their system.
Swimming-Figure-8635 t1_j5fp1f1 wrote
Huge misconception that PPA is efficient or even gives a sh!t about illegal parking, aside from maybe a few blocks in center city. I've called their hotline to report the most egregious violations in areas they patrol, and it's a crapshoot whether they show up, let alone issue a ticket.
Fattom23 t1_j5g0mjv wrote
I don't think the PPA gives a shit about anything other than time restrictions, but they're wildly efficient with those. They don't work for the general citizenry; they work for the person who wants to park their car in the spot you've got your car in (whether that's a permitted zone resident or someone else who wants to feed that meter).
If there were organized complaints about specific cars illegally parked in the crosswalk, I would actually suspect that there would be more action taken where the PPD is responsible. At least the last organization has to report somewhere about response times to emergency and non-emergency calls, so there's the faintest shred of accountability.
mikewarnock t1_j5h35mo wrote
That is my experience. They only seem to ticket based on the two hour time limit. I see tons of cars parked way to close to the intersection all of the time and they seem to do nothing about it.
I have a theory that it has to do with the app they use to scan license plates to determine if you have a permit. I assume that the app automatically tags the time and location for each scan and when it detects a same location over the two hour limit for a tag it prints the ticket with no or little action required by the agent. However, if the agent wants to give a ticket for something like parked to close to the curb they have to take a picture, enter data, etc.
adwvn t1_j5hfqoj wrote
Clog lines? I have not experienced long wait times for many months. This is how the police and every politician tell you how they want you to handle it. You can even text 911 instead. In addition , as the police are concerned, I've been told by Captain of 19125 PPD the department had no staffing issues and plenty of cars to send out to respond to parking complaints, but keeping in mind parking is the lowest priority. Words directly from the source.
Scout1454 t1_j5hhroi wrote
20 to 30 calls all in a short amount of time for one illegally parked car, could definitely overwhelme system during that time frame, especially if people are doing it for multiple cars a day.
Their suggestion was not to call 911. It was to form a group of people to all call 911 for each car that someone posted
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