City Letter To Cops Hints Pressure To Write More Parking TIckets

The Chicago Sun-Times has gotten their hands on a City Hall memo which warns Chicago police officials that the city stands to lose a large amount of revenue if a decline in the number of parking tickets continues.  While the memo does not specifically ask officers to write more parking tickets, critics are pointing out that the memo is a silent message to Chicago police to step up the writing of tickets.  The memo points out that the number of tickets written in July of 2010 dropped 25 percent compared to July of 2009.  The memo also lists specific police districts with the least and most parking tickets.  The most parking tickets were issued in the Near North District, which covers downtown north of the Chicago River.  The fewest tickets were issued in the Wentworth District, which is east of Sox park on the south side.  Fewer tickets had to be dismissed because they were written wrongly.  The memo warns that the city stands to lose substantial revenue if the trend continues.

Cook County Clerk David Orr was highly critical of the city and believes that the memo is meant to have the effect of telling police to write more parking tickets.  The head of the police union also believes that this memo looks like the city is trying to push for ticket quotas.

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