FALL SWEEPS: A Street Sweeping and Parking Enforcement Investigation

Typical city BS - same thing in SF when I lived there.

Another update: For the second Thursday in a row, and as I mentioned on the KNBC Channel 4 News in one of the Video Responses, the City failed to sweep 24th Street altogether. The Thursday side of the street has not been swept in more than two weeks now. Please continue spreading the word, as the City Council looks into this further.

Beloit22,

That would not be my complaint at all, if the City was in fact doing what it SAID it were doing. The problem right now is that they aren't, and they're benefiting from citizens' money.

I've asked politely for an interview for a follow-up piece of mine, as you are a parking enforcement officer. You declined the interview request altogether. Please, if you aren't willing to put your money where your mouth is, please don't comment with these bitter remarks.

Sure, if the sweeper does not sweep on a posted day and time, then there should be no fine. But In the video I saw no evidence that the trash in the gutter was there at the end of the time specified on the signs. For all we know the video was taken just before the sweeper came, or even as the sweeper was on the street.
As for the parking enforcement car parked there, was it on the sweeping day and hours? prove it to me. Also prove it was no there on bussiness ofsome type.

All of the times are on the timecode of when the video was taken. There's your proof. If anyone were to investigate the validity of this piece then they'd be able to see that.

Also, you may want to restate your last sentence because I don't think anyone knows what you're trying to say.

I watched the video again, and saw no time codes at all. My last sentece, I was asking for proof the parking enforcement car was there on sweeping day and hours, and that there was not some kind of related bussiness, of some type, like writing cites, contacting a citizen regarding a complaint, perhaps it had broke down. Also where i he proof it ws there an hour? Again I saw no time code, a camera can be set o any day and time, including a future date and time.

Avidare30,

I can assure you, as video and many others with which I've spoken (much the inspiration for this story, in fact), the streets are not swept. I spent nearly two months watching these streets, and I invite you to do the same and see for yourself.

I chose not to use a timecode because it requires digital manipulation of the video to insert. But you'll find the empty streets portrayed are an oddity in the parking congestion of South L.A. Again, you're welcome to check up on it yourself.

Just being critical, as I have seen streets in other cities, that have posted sweeping areas, where the streets looked very dirty, lots of trash etc. Just before the sweeper passed.

Parking "cops" are morons who failed in life and took a job stealing from people on behalf of a greedy, broken, and lazy municipality. There are many other jobs that they could've taken but they actually took this one. Most of them have major personality problems and have a vendetta against the rest of us who actually have a thought of direction in our lives. Parking "cops" are the most hated people on earth, more than Al Qaeda.

People move their cars on streets that don't have street cleaning. So yes, I thought before I bitched...

Parking is already enough of a problem in LA, at least have some of it available more often if possible.

Bottom line is that the city knows it is a great source of revenue.