If there's any merit to the concept of "broken windows" policing, it certainly should apply to this practice by the cops themselves. Free parking sounds like a small thing, but it's created a class of cop and cop-adjacent people who think they can do whatever the f%$# they want in the city.
—Eschaton
(%$# mine)
Duncan Black is talking about the fact that cops, and their families, and their friends, routinely use "Official" placards to park wherever they want without fear of being ticketed or towed.
New York City is notorious for this.
It's small corruption, but it is corruption nonetheless, and it poisons the whole institution.
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