Citizens on Patrol: What If Your Neighbor Could Give You a Parking Ticket?

Few jobs are more thankless, or invite more cursing and murderous glares on any given workday, than that of a parking enforcement officer. The traffic bill is mostly about things like installing all-way stops at intersections and reducing the speed limit on most side streets to 20 or 25 miles an hour. But none of that has attracted nearly as much attention as the resident enforcement plan, which has conjured visions of a swift comeuppance for scofflaws idling in bike lanes while also raising alarms about the potential for abuse.

Source: www.nytimes.com