Forms of Humor

 

In the office, Double D

turned to a new officer and said,

"I see you have grabbed a stack

of wealth redistribution forms."

 

The new officer said, "What?"

 

Double D, "Citations?"

 

"Oh... Yeah."

 

 

 

Comments

[Lt]

All of our patrol shifts have been recently tasked with city sticker enforcement. I have my officers going down busy for 2 hour shifts to knock our assigned list out.

It's simply revenue generating. I hate it. The officers hate it. I believe upper admin hates it. But city hall demands it.

I believe citations should only be for behavior correction. Never to simply raise revenue. I say, add a fee to the water bill, and leave the police out of it. (Thanks for letting me vent.)

[RD]

@LT,

City Sticker Enforcement? I am not sure what that is?

RD

[Lt]

Be glad, RD, and hopefully it's just a midwest thing. Every vehicle registered in the city must have a city sticker affixed to the lower right front windshield. Stickers are $25 each. It's essentially a tax, but it is enforced by parking ordinance, meaning we can write a parking ticket for "failure to display city sticker". So we are given lists of addresses and vehicles that did not purchase stickers, and the officers have to go on a hunt to locate the vehicles and issue the tickets. It's a lot of work to accomplish something that could be handled quite simply through another process.

[RD]

Really?

I have never heard of sure a thing.

What about visitors to the city?

Hmmmm...

[RD]

Okay, I am curious. How many other cities have the City Parking Sticker Program LT mentions? If anybody would like to answer or no to for their local municipality, I'd like to know.

RD

[Lt]

It doesn't apply to visitors, because it only applies to vehicles registered to an address in the city.

Here's one example...

http://www.chicityclerk.com/licenses/citystickers.html