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Wilkey88 t1_izehet4 wrote

You might also have a new snitch on your street. What part of the city do you live live? Overnight parking enforcement is usually only heavily enforced on the east side. Otherwise it was either a slow night and a cop decided to write a bunch of tickets, or some one called and complained and then the whole neighborhood was tagged. My advice, juat get the tag. It takes about 30min and the office is right on Alens ave.

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jaymzcb OP t1_izejeuw wrote

Smith hill area and I didn't think about the snitch thing

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the_falconator t1_izft5dr wrote

Cops don't give parking tickets in Providence, there are separate parking enforcement jobs for people to go around ticketing.

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sandsonik t1_izubpk0 wrote

From 2am to 5 am? I'm pretty sure the overnight parking tickets are given by cops.

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Status_Silver_5114 t1_izus9ic wrote

Nope / it’s cops. That’s why they won’t ticket unless there’s a complaint (vs regular walking the beat meter maids).

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NinjaSant4 t1_j01tldw wrote

Parking enforcement is out every night, specifically looking for people parked on the street. The cops rarely if ever are ticketing parked cars.

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Status_Silver_5114 t1_j01u6e6 wrote

But they won’t ticket unless you call the providence police number. This is direct quote from the providence police supervisor - unless you call PPD between 1-5am - no one is going to ticket a car. They aren’t driving around all night looking for ticketing oops. It’s purely a dispatched only situation.

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NinjaSant4 t1_j01v63x wrote

Thats an entirely fabricated story. I have lived here long enough to know exactly when parking enforcement is going to hit certain streets. They don't need to be called, and its hilarious you believe the cops when they tell you "blame your neighbors".

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Status_Silver_5114 t1_j020p66 wrote

Oh puleeze. I’ve had a conversation with the police - on the phone - personally so I’m quoting. And yes I’ve lived here long enough too. You don’t want to believe me call the non emergency number right now and say hey / my neighbor is parking outside my house and it’s a no overnight zone can you give them a ticket? And see what they say. It’s ok we’ll wait…….

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NinjaSant4 t1_j022441 wrote

You don't need to call for them to ticket. They drive around at night, the parking enforcement has a night shift. Why would they ticket "overnight" cars during the day? You ticket between 2-5, the same time they have for over a decade. No calls need to be made, they will drive through neighborhoods and ticket as desired.

And as we all know, the police are always entirely honest.

Lol blocked because they know Im right. Go figure.

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Status_Silver_5114 t1_j0246q0 wrote

I’m not talking about daytime parking. Overnight parking / go ahead. Call PVD. If there was ticketing just happening, the 3-5 cars that park on our no overnight street would get ticketed at least semi regularly. They don’t. Still waiting for you to call the Pd tho…. I mean they are basically saying they can’t be bothered enforcing the law why would they lie about that? It makes the street residents happy because the no overnight rule is stupid anyway.

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sweetener__ t1_izg36l1 wrote

People really snitch about street parking? God damn.

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_izjtvp2 wrote

People get mad if there's a lot of cars, if you're blocking garbage cans,if you're too far out from the curb, if you're too close to a driveway/corner, or if you're just in front of their house.

I get being mad at all of those things except the last one. I don't really get being an adult who tattles on people.

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leavingthecold t1_izen5zq wrote

I never heard of this either, is there another number besides regular police number to call when people snitch on you?

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Status_Silver_5114 t1_izus6vt wrote

On east side - it’s not heavily enforced actually. Only if someone gets on the phone ……. Otherwise zero enforcement (and this is directly from the police themselves when we had someone block our garbage cans for a month. Don’t get me started on why they can’t get to the garbage cans with cars parked like every other city can……)

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