NewYork's Dirtiest: Stinkin' Sanitation Cops
According to the NY Post, Fort Greene homeowners are getting smacked by sanitation cops with $100 “dirty sidewalk” fines for s couple of slips of paper. We had our own run-in in South Williamsburg with a real gem of a sanitation cop last year when a neighbor from two doors down started hurling bags of…
According to the NY Post, Fort Greene homeowners are getting smacked by sanitation cops with $100 “dirty sidewalk” fines for s couple of slips of paper. We had our own run-in in South Williamsburg with a real gem of a sanitation cop last year when a neighbor from two doors down started hurling bags of garbage at our front door, mistakenly under the impression that we had been putting our household garbage in his cans. Mrs. B, baby in arms, stepped outside to confront the guy just as a sanitation cop pulled up. As the large man was screaming in her face menacingly, the cop, rather than try to do anything to physically protect her, starting writing her a ticket for the garbage on our stoop. After the neighbor finally backed off, Mrs. B asked for the sanitation cop’s name to act as a witness if she decided to file assault charges. The cop just shrugged his shoulders and said, “I didn’t see nuthin’.” And with that drove off.
Any other stories about run-ins with the sanitation cops?
City Play Dirty with Tix [NY Post]
let me tell you some thing about the santation police i was a san cop for six years until i was let go for bs.the dept socks from the boss the the po’s it’s all about tickets and numbers the san police are just like nypd to a point they can arrest and in force the law but the dept just wants tickets they dont like you to do your job the way it was posted in the law look it up and you will see it’s not only about garabge.
How exactly do they fine you if you just stick all your crap in a black bag? Is there someone who goes around and opens the trash bags to check and see if it’s mixed? Or do they only check the clear bags for mixed stuff(IE, is that why they’re clear)?
Cus whoever has to go through the trash has a really crappy job.
just clean ur sidewalk from 8:00am-9:00am that is the only time these guys can write tickets for dirty sidewalks. i asked them once and they arent allowed to write for that any other time.
just clean ur sidewalk from 8:00am-9:00am that is the only time these guys can write tickets for dirty sidewalks. i asked them once and they arent allowed to write for that any other time.
My brother is a Sanitation Police officer.
and I hear what happends on his shifts.
first thing the law is the law my Brother
and other officers just inforce them.
If my brother came back with out a ticket
then his captian will think his goofing off
dont get mad at the officers get mad at the mayor. Thats like if a MTA worker decided not pick up passengers got back to the garage
with no money he better have a good reson.
Read your laws on trash in and around your
property. And tipping you have to be stupid
to do that. Any city worker are not alowed to
be tipped a.k.a. Sanitation dep. MTA. Police
department. Now try to give a Sanitation
Police officer a tip or a brib some times they are in plain cloth you will get
more then a ticket you get jail time.
Bottom line Pick up your trash
and when your away have someone check
your property like a next door nabor.
The next time you see someone drop off a old
stove on your lawn or property and a sanit Police officer is arresting and slapping him
with a 20,000 + fine thank the officer
NYC Strongest.
I got a $100 ticket from an agent name Frank Liotta. I was cited for a few pieces paper and cigarette wrappers, which could have been carried to my sidewalk at any given moment.
I live in Sunset Park Brooklyn near the 8th Avenue area. The 8th Avenue area, has been, and continues to be one of the dirtier parts of this city. 8th Avenue is filled with all sorts of garbage generated by its pedestrian, restaurants, and grocery stores. It is not uncommon to seagulls swooping in to pick at the entrails and rotten meat dumped by the restaurants.
It sickens me to see a civil servant like Liotta picking on little guys like me and not tackling real problems.
I find it hilarious that most of the comments regarding summons’ being issued unfairly are from Brooklyn. Sounds like the entire borough is full of garbage. I propose a Brooklyn tax since it appears it is the largest, dirtiest borough in NYC.
There are a few important things that you you must understand. Sanitation workers only pick up the garbage. There are many reasons why they don’t take certain things
1. Paper must be tied up or in a pail.
2. Styrofoam is not paper!!
3.There is a size limit on the pail you can have. They will not take a 50lb 4ft pail.
4. Bottles and cans and paper are not the same commodity, that is why it is called recycling and why you recieve $25 summons.
5. When you live in crap areas with sloppy renters in everybuilding you get tickets for mixed recycling.
They can’t accept tips, as they can lose their job for it, if you throw it in the truck when they arent looking they will accpet it.
There are people home all day with nothing else to do then to find a way to get their sanitation workers in trouble. 75% of the time if you report them they will lose their job, their pension, and will have to find a way to support their family all because you had nothing better to do then to call 311 because they left your mixed recycling( which is your job to do) so you claim they took money from you and they lose their job. Sanitation workers are working hard to do 12 tons of garbage a day, while you go to your airconditioned office and sit at your desk, they work in the heat, extreme cold to make this city as clean as possible. As with other city jobs its all politics, when the people on top come down hard on the sanitation workers ( remember they are a union) they will do what they can to keep things the same.
There are a few important things that you you must understand. Sanitation workers only pick up the garbage. There are many reasons why they don’t take certain things
1. Paper must be tied up or in a pail.
2. Styrofoam is not paper!!
3.There is a size limit on the pail you can have. They will not take a 50lb 4ft pail.
4. Bottles and cans and paper are not the same commodity, that is why it is called recycling and why you recieve $25 summons.
5. When you live in crap areas with sloppy renters in everybuilding you get tickets for mixed recycling.
They can’t accept tips, as they can lose their job for it, if you throw it in the truck when they arent looking they will accpet it.
There are people home all day with nothing else to do then to find a way to get their sanitation workers in trouble. 75% of the time if you report them they will lose their job, their pension, and will have to find a way to support their family all because you had nothing better to do then to call 311 because they left your mixed recycling( which is your job to do) so you claim they took money from you and they lose their job. Sanitation workers are working hard to do 12 tons of garbage a day, while you go to your airconditioned office and sit at your desk, they work in the heat, extreme cold to make this city as clean as possible. As with other city jobs its all politics, when the people on top come down hard on the sanitation workers ( remember they are a union) they will do what they can to keep things the same.