SDPD Parking Enforcement

The tan fat bald guy who sits the front desk of their information center came off so irritably rude. All I asked was where the sheriffs department was so I can file a report in person and ask questions because I got lost finding it. He rudely said just to go online and file. Ok. You’re no freaking help at all. The least he could’ve done was help me answer my question. You’re supposed to be useful at an information office not be a lazy douche bag. What a great image you give towards your line of work.

SDPD are money sucking vultures. There is no benefit to what you guys do… you suck money out of hard working individuals in a town where the cost of living is barely manageable for us common folk. Then one morning you decide to get outside and enjoy the fresh air and take hike… something free to do here which doesn’t break your bank account only to come back down the mountain exhausted to find a $ 50 parking ticket for not «cramping the wheels into the curb»…yes seriously. I know it is end of the month and quota time but really? There was barely an incline and my parking brake was set!!! And this violation is worth $ 50??? And a parking ticket yesterday for an expired meter for which i hadn’t even put money in yet… I just parked in 15 minute parking to pick up a TOGO pizza at Bronx Pizza on Washington and before I could get back with some change for the meter a ticket for $ 42 was on my windshield… seriously? I wasn’t there 5 minutes and even so 15 minute parking is worth $ 42 freaking dollars??? It is a total scam and ripoff what you are doing to the people of San Diego and probably all the tourist that invest in this community. Seriously… let’s just call this program what it really is: San Diego City Vulture Department. They sit there and prey on citizens to make a mistake. the minute you walk away there they are issuing a ridiculously overpriced ticket. If it is a gross violation of parking then yes i understand a ticket but seriously the violations are getting ridiculous and the fees DEFINITELY do not correlate with the offense.

Oh I know! Let’s come by every day to issue a new ticket! I mean, it’s just a $ 25 for not displaying registration that the DMV won’t give me even though I’ve paid… plus $ 17.50 in fees. Every day.
I respect authority, but I don’t respect someone who would choose to do this for a living. Seriously, anything is better than this.
You know you just gave me a ticket yesterday. Stop. Just stop.

I believe it is unnecessary to cite without a valid reason. I was cited for not displaying current plates on my new car. The dealer accurately displayed the temporary registration information on the windshield on lower right corner.
The citation code was: CVC 5204 (A) 77 Current Registration not Displayed. The comment mentioned that temporary folded/​date sold unreadable. However, CVC 5204 (A) 77 does not state that date of sale is supposed to be visible on the temporary registration paper on the windshield.
Therefore, I contested using on-​line system with the picture of the registration information. The citation was dismissed the next day and without any fine.
Why do you have to waste general public’s time?

52.50!!! For parking my car on the wrong side of the street for sweeping? This is such a load of bs. A «mandated state surcharge» of 12.50? 52.50 is enough to put gas in my car for two weeks. It is enough to buy groceries for my family for the week! 52.50 is far too much to be charging. You all should be ashamed.

These people are so greedy! D Stum will lstand by your car at 2 mins to see if you come. He is already writing the ticket at 2 mins!

YES, As of this date, we (my Attorney and I) are making the forward steps to take the City to court over their total lack of compliance with Federal and State ADA codes. The City is using the Street Sweeping Agency as a money grabber and in the process is descriminating against the Disabled.

NTY

The parking system is corrupted and illegal in many way’s. They dubbled the price from 20 to 40 why I really dont know and what is this 12 addtional dollar they add in top of the 40 dollar fee?. Somtime they give us tickets for street sweeping but they dont even sweep the damn street. I know the city is broke but dont take it out on us.

I give SDPD no star because giving them a star would mean that they have some sort of merit.
To anyway who posted «I hate the people who complain about parking tickets…» well you are part of the problem you morons. This is YOUR community and the people who help keep your «community» going are people who are parking there (patrons, visitors and tourist).
You are allowing law makers who don’t «live» in YOUR community to bully you and steal money. The reason these agencies were put into place to begin with was to help the citizens (like the lady who keeps having people blocking her driveway). This agency now goes around making up rules, rules rules to do nothing but create revenue. I mean really how many people have been injured a horrible crimping accident? Why is there so much one hour parking? How are you suppose to get something to eat, have a stroll or buy something at a shop in an hour? YOU CAN’T!!!
I enjoyed La Jolla very much and spent a good amount of cash eating and shopping there. After missing my time by minutes I also spend $ 52.50 on the parking ticket I received. I sincerely planned to go back and spend another afternoon there but now I refuse because the parking there sucks. It is not the lack of parking but the over regulated nature of the parking that is offered and the over zealous parking attendants. How is the parking situation here conducive to people spending their time and money in this area?
People of La Jolla, you need to go to city meetings and fight the oppressors. Your businesses are suffering because these guys are manipulating and abusing their power. They are not there to martial, bully and steal from the citizens, they are suppose to be there assist. Ticket people who park in handicapped spaces, obstruct access to fire hydrates or block driveways.
Stop letting these people push you around, It is YOUR community not theirs and you vote these clowns (who make all these ridiculous rules) into office! It is about revenue and their paychecks.
Locals, business owners and patrons… stand up and stop the ticketing madness. Take the power back, you are the mob and despite what they lead you to believe you have a voice. USE IT!
Signed,
Ticketed for spending money in your area

Well, I’m speaking up for the nice meter maid who was in the process of writing me a ticket for not cramping my wheels but forgave it when I assured her I’d fix it immediately, as well as my daughter’s car and those of the workmen at the house. We have all cramped our wheels ever since.

I know that it is their job to give us a ticket or fine. I will never complain if I get a ticket, if I really deserve it. I am sure that most of the parking enforcement officers just do their job, do it good and they are nice people.
But some of them are crazy bastards. Some of them love to insult you, they love to show their importance, they act very rude and unprofessional.

I know that there are some who get tickets, most if not all probably deserve it, and I know that there are some who are angry because they receive the rightful reminder of the laws they believe they are above BUT… THANK YOU MISTER METER MAID WHO HELPED ME WITH MY KEYS LOCKED IN MY CAR.
Thank you for not ticketing me when my meter expired while we were dealing with this issue. I would have deserved it because the meter was expired and my car was parked at it.
You guys get a bad wrap for coin your job but thank you for being there to help out despite it!

My neighbors parked like retards, and you guys cleaned it up.
My neighbors seemed to think our nice clean neighborhood would look better with their cars parked across the lawn, facing the wrong way in front of our ONLY fire hydrant for the entire block, and blocking the sidewalk forcing moms with strollers, the elderly, and other pedestrians into the street. Various residents, including myself, asked the neighbors very nicely to be a little more courteous and knock it off. They basically told us where to stick it.
So, while walking out of Vons, I came across a young parking officer and asked him if he would cruise down out street and either ask them to straighten up or write cites. He said he’d: «Cruise by and take a look». Well apparently he did, because the next day when I came home for lunch, the shitty suburban that usually parked across the sidewalk was now legally parked, and the Honda Accord that’s usually parked facing the wrong way, was in compliance. I later found out from the stay at home mom next door that the officer came by and knocked on the bad parking job people’s door, the teenager who drives the Honda came out and moved it. The suburban however, was cited.
I appreciate the fact that the officer even bothered to come down our street, furthermore I appreciate the fact that the officer had the courtesy to knock and at least give them a chance to move and probably advise them of the laws.
Hopefully some of the other hard ass officers will learn from this one. Good job, and keep it up who ever you are.

You can say with confidence that the SDPD «Parking Enforcement Officers» (aka meter maids) are the scum of the Earth. It is a well known fact that they are Satanists, who steal money from kids with special needs, and kick puppies whenever possible.
Seriously though, meter maids are much worse than that.
«Parking Enforcement Officers» spread misery for a living by handing out endless parking tickets to the unsuspecting public. There is no escaping the wrath of a determined meter maid in a go-​cart. They are known to frequent high traffic areas near local colleges and universities, the downtown area, our local beaches, and now even residential neighborhoods. Here is a dirty little secret about our local meter maids… their favorite areas to patrol are in poor and working class communities!
What a great feeling it must be, to ticket a vehicle that belongs to a poor family! As a bonus, if they ticket your vehicle enough times, it can be towed and impounded if you cannot afford to pay the fines. That’s awesome!
Obviously, this is not a job for everybody. To do this for a living, it takes a very special kind of individual. If you would like to join the prestigious «Parking Enforcement Officer» ranks, you will need to meet four simple requirements. They are as follows…
1. Be a mindless drone.
2. Be a dropout/​kickout of the SD Police Academy.
3. Have no soul.
4. And lastly, you must be able to automatically reply, «I’m just doing my job!» everytime you get called out for being a piece of human feces.

My dear friend Kyle summed it up best when he wrote:
«Dear Parking Enforcement Officer,
Thank you for the ticket for „not crimping my wheels to the curb“. Although it may cost me 47 dollars, I am happy to pay such a small fee to have avoided a potential disaster. You see, I am certain that my Honda was just moments away from disengaging the parking brake, miraculously jumping the car behind me, and rolling down the hill into a sightseeing tour bus full of recently adopted Cambodian orphans (which are always passing through OB). Boy would my face have been red! You deserve a medal of honor or at least a gift certificate to Chili’s for this act of selfless act of bravery. I am sure that the simple act of placing that ticket on my car was enough to save those children and you deserve recognition.
I would be more than happy to write you a letter of commendation acknowledging your exploits. This letter certainly won’t be filled with anthrax or exploding ink or spring-​loaded ninja stars. No, this letter will describe how you, a humble, piece of shit, soulless, no-​good parking enforcement officer prevented a potential ⁹⁄₁₁ by way of Honda Accord. Feel free to pick it up at my place in OB any time. And I mean ANY TIME. I assure you that their won’t be any bear traps, hired gang members with baseball bats, pitfalls, decapitating spinning blades of death, or venomous snakes in my front yard. I hope to you see you soon, you brave knight.
Love,
Kyle»
Kyle has the power to morph my exact thoughts into pixels. Thank you Kyle.
Eat shit and die SDPD Parking Enforcement.

I really don’t know who to review on this one because I tried to look up «UCSD parking enforcement» it no results yielding so I guess this will have to suffice for a vent since it’s all the same shit and people anyways with the same goddamn greedy bottom line.
Dear CA state government (UC Regents Included),
Thank You for giving me another bullshit parking ticket worth $ 50 when I clearly have a UCSD Staff B parking pass displayed. Thank you even more for not even writing the reason for the ticket, but rather, under comments stating «picture of vehicle taken»…for no particular reason. Thank you for having rejected every single one of my appeals since undergrad.
And furthermore on a tangeant, the UC president just got a pay raise to nearly a base income of a million a year, while budget cuts have taken away from the students as well as health care professionals in the UCSD medical clinics. I know because the flyers are posted up in my office everywhere.
There is nothing I love more than working full time, going to the gym, then struggling to do more job career apps/​school stuff and busting my ass trying to make an honest living every day while you F*ckers drain the living soul out of me.
In addition, Liberty, the rescued bear cub I am sponsoring also thanks you because you people have taken the little disposable income I did have that was supposed to go to her donation. You make the world a better place, and further justify my raging misanthropy.
P. S. It’s your fault my Unilocaling bell curve is so fucked up. I have so many one star reviews because of all the gov’t matters I have taken on.
P. P. S. kill yourselves. curb the carbon footprint.
Kind Regards,
Jamie

I used to live in the East Village, and had to fight for parking. There was a little bit of free parking, but you had to hunt for it, or park a mile away. So every time that I parked on a meter, parking enforcement would be circling the block looking for expired meters. That’s $ 30 a pop, then you have street cleaning tickets that are $ 40 a pop.
So I moved to City Heights where there are no meters in my neighborhood, just street cleaning twice a month. And my wonderful, lovely neighbors across the street that I don’t even know, had my car towed because I was a foot into their driveway and didn’t know it. That was $ 394 to Road One, plus the $ 45 ticket to SDPD.
I plan to move again, and this time PARKING is a priority for me. A driveway would be nice, but I’ll settle for street parking as long as I can park one house away from where I live.
With apartments, duplexes and houses on my block, plus North Park Produce on the corner, forget about parking unless it’s during the day. When everyone comes home from work, they take up all the spaces.
I’m ready to move now, but can’t!

Really guys? Again? This has got to be some sort of a record!

What can really be said about a group of people who’s job is to ruin someone’s day? Once you get passed the humor of the parking enforcement vehicles, (I’m sure one person can literally push them over with little to no force) what you are left with are heartless pricks who are out to phuck your day up. Gawd forbid you forget to put an extra nickel into a parking meter in downtown, your ticket is slightly expired, or you park in front of your apartment complex on the morning of a «street sweeping.»
Scattered all throughout San Diego streets are signs stating «No Parking 7 am to 10 am 1^st Wed/​Thurs of Month,» or other similar signs, although I honestly believe this is no more than a conspiracy to make a grip of money with little to no work. $ 40 in my opinion is too steep a punishment for merely parking your car in a residential area, or any area for that matter in a place that in no way impedes traffic or inconveniences anyone. So long as you don’t park in a handicapped or red zone, in my opinion there is no instance that warrants this.
I was unemployed for over two months in 2007, and lived right in front of designated «street sweeping» areas, and not once did I ever see a street sweeper roll on through my neighborhood nor did the gutters ever give off the appearance of having been cleaned, yet on two separate occasions I received citations. Funny how that works. I honestly would not be the least bit surprised to find out that these alleged street sweepings never occur.
I live on Diamond Street in Pacific Beach. Assuming there are 50 cars up and down the street on a given street sweeping day, and all are ticketed at $ 40 a pop, that is $ 2,000 in revenue for the city. And that is only one street on one day and I’m sure that the arbitrary number that I have come up with is substantially lower than what the average street would encompass. Now imagine what the total would be for the thousands of streets that are in San Diego.
According to an article I read in the Union Tribune, the city collected well over $ 25.5 MILLION in parking fines in 2007. I understand that there is a need for parking enforcement, but as far as I am personally concerned, I need them about as much as I need a bullet to the brain.