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City Street Sweeping & Ticket Scams Uncovered ~ Los Angeles
LA TACO —
An investigation into the City of Los Angeles’s street cleaning double standard: failure to sweep streets on the designated days but strict enforcement of cars parked along them. The research revealed widespread governmental miscommunication — allowing the City to rake in millions of dollars every month — and oftentimes from batch, “sweeping” ticketings along streets that were never swept.
Video: Cars Ticketed on Street Sweeping Days when
LAist —
USC Broadcast Journalism student Matt Schrader has spent the last three months investigating parking tickets issued for violating street sweeping hours. He finds that tickets are often given on days when sweepers never come by. No surprise there.
To boot, he gets officials on the record agreeing with him: tickets shouldn't be issued if the city has no reason to.
How much of a scam is Street Cleaning?
Los Angeles Metblogs —
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Matt Schrader spent a few months talking to people about the street cleaning policy in LA – both the people who are in charge of it and the people effected by it. Turns out you are much more likely to get a ticket then you are to actually have your street swept.
If you get a ticket for parking in a ...
Street Sweeping Days: Plenty of Parking Tickets, Not Much Sweeping
Curbed LA —
A future Woodward (or Bernstein) at USC's Annenberg TV station has spent the past three months investigating the city's street sweeping policies near the school. Namely, he found plenty of parking tickets and not a whole lot of sweeping going on. Le scandale! Residents on the garbage-strewn streets are plenty pissed when they wind up with parking tickets AND dirty curbs, but it doesn't sound like they have much of a chance of contesting the tickets.
· FALL SWEEPS: A Street Sweeping and Parking Enforcement Investigation [YouTube]
Citizen Journalism: USC Student Reveals Flaws in Citys Street Cleaning and Parking Enforcement
Streetsblog Los Angeles —
Clarence Eckerson Jr., the mad genius behind Streetfilms, believes that the next frontier of activist journalism isn't going to be written blogs but video blogs. Sometimes, when I look at the performance of your average Streetfilm compared to the hits one of my best researched and most popular stories, it's hard to argue with him.
Picking up the mantle of citizen journalist is USC Junior Matt Schraeder who's story on how the city will ticket cars parked on streets due for cleanings is pretty much a must-see piece of journalism. While you're not going to confuse the above ...
A Street Sweeping and Parking Enforcement Investigation
L.A. Can't Drive —
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Matt Schrader, a broadcast journalism major at USC, wrote to me about a story he’s been putting together over the last few months. He conducted an investigation into what he calls the City of Los Angeles’ street cleaning double standard: failure to sweep streets on the designated days but strict enforcement of cars parked along them. The research revealed widespread governmental miscommunication — allowing the City to rake in millions of ...
