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Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by dodos »

gregschlom wrote: post #261
Swizec wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> street sweeping is either the first and third or second and fourth week of the month for most residential areas On my block we get it 2x/week. I've never seen a street sweeper come by and the street is always dirty, but I sure have gotten tickets for leaving my vehicle out front overnight on the wrong day.

As far as I know you only get a ticket if you're actually parked there when the sweeper comes by. There's a parking cop car following the sweeper and ticketing the cars. You're allowed to re-park in the street after the sweeper has done its job, even if it's still technically street sweeping time. So if you've got a ticket, there almost certainly was a sweeper that came by at that time.

Pretty sure it varies depending on where you live. iirc When I was in SF the tickets would get distributed ahead of time and the sweeper would follow within an hour or so. Once the sweeper went by you were free to re-park.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by notatoad »

RS-232 wrote: post #327
jcalvinowens wrote: post #324

I gotta say, it's incredibly inconsiderate and thoughtless to publish the real time location of a bunch of public safety officers in an individually identifiable way. I understand the sentiment, and I appreciate the hackery... but you put these people at risk today. You need to think much more carefully about how you approach things like this in the future.

I disagree. There should be no expectation of privacy for any public officer. Things like this website, body cameras, and FOIA requests are all for the public good. Expose corruption and keep everyone safer with a little accountability.

there is no public good afforded by violating parking restrictions. the public good comes from enforcing them, so that parking spaces turn over quickly and remain as available as possible.

circumvention of the rules for a priveleged few (like those who know how to surveil the enforcement officers) is actual corruption. this service doesn't expose corruption, it enables it.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by itake »

crazygringo wrote: post #339
RS-232 wrote: post #327

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree. There should be no expectation of privacy for any public officer. Things like this website, body cameras, and FOIA requests are all for the public good. Expose corruption and keep everyone safer with a little accountability.

Accountability in terms of what has happened in the past , yes. But the idea that current public locations of identifiable public officers is not justifiable at all. That would be allowing individuals to be stalked in real time. That's not OK.

They are operating in public. They shouldn't have expectations of privacy.

Are you against ICE agent tracking apps as well?

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by rahimnathwani »

renewiltord wrote: post #336
rahimnathwani wrote: post #325

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Re: La Petite Baleen: 34 mins vs 1 hour 11 mins for me. My son's swim school is 20 mins away by car, or 60 mins by public transport. I take your point that these are first world problems. But my point is that not having access to a car in San Francisco is a significant inconvenience and it's incorrect to say 'you can live well' without that access. You might not be so inconvenienced that you would say "we don't live…

I wouldn't say it's "meh" that you can take your kids to swim school only on weekends. LPB is 23 vs 39 for me but I do drive. Either way I wouldn't think it "meh". But I suppose standards of living in the US are by default so far ahead of other places that these are considered the minimum to not be "meh" here.

  LPB is 23 vs 39 for me but I do drive. Either way I wouldn't think it "meh".
The 39 minute journey time doesn't include:

- the time between now and the journey start time

- delays

So you would need to budget an hour each way, i.e. a total of 2.5 hours for a 30 minute swim lesson.

Imagine doing that for every single thing you need to do.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by Barbing »

jcalvinowens wrote: post #324

I gotta say, it's incredibly inconsiderate and thoughtless to publish the real time location of a bunch of public safety officers in an individually identifiable way. I understand the sentiment, and I appreciate the hackery... but you put these people at risk today. You need to think much more carefully about how you approach things like this in the future.

Thank you for thinking about the safety of our neighbors.

May I ask whether you've considered the unique vehicles the parking enforcement agents use?

SFMTA is hard to miss in their 3-wheelers--believe it's the Westward Industries "GO-4" Interceptor. I may have a blind spot here (like someone with access to an armed drone fleet could have made use of the map?), but essentially all private citizens will see these unmistakable three-wheelers simply by opening their front doors or heading downtown. Or into most any neighborhood.

For others reading this besides you, what additional safety burden could be presented by this map which is absent simply with any of the 800,000 pairs of human eyeballs in SF? (Here to learn, no snark!)

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by nielsole »

xvedejas wrote: post #310
geor9e wrote: post #246

"each possible ticket number follows a pattern: add 11, except add 4 if the last digit is 6…Only God knows why" That pattern feels suspiciously like how a tacked-on modulo check-digit would act. It seems the real citation number, x, excludes the last digit, and you only needed to +1 increment to it. Then they tack on a last digit, a check-digit, of (x+1) mod 7. That would be the same pattern. The contract for the sys…

In college we discovered everyone's ID number was evenly divisible by 13. Presumably it's because that's the smallest number you'd need so that you could detect any one digit being incorrect, or two adjacent digits being swapped (I think?). Or that it's just very easy to implement the increment when assigning new numbers.

Isn't 11 the smallest divisor that gives those guarantees?

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by RS-232 »

dragonwriter wrote: post #337
RS-232 wrote: post #327

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree. There should be no expectation of privacy for any public officer. Things like this website, body cameras, and FOIA requests are all for the public good. Expose corruption and keep everyone safer with a little accountability.

> There should be no expectation of privacy for any public officer. So live public webcams in the employee restrooms in all government buildings? I would argue that public officers would retain personal privacy, but that such privacy cannot be a shield against the public for the government concealing substantive operations, and that the identity of public officers and the substantive means by which they are engaged i…

While personal privacy may be preserved outside the scope of public acts, an individual who, in the execution of official duties, operates vehicles displaying lights or sirens and wears official identification inherently waives any claim to geospatial privacy.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by greesil »

jcalvinowens wrote: post #324

I gotta say, it's incredibly inconsiderate and thoughtless to publish the real time location of a bunch of public safety officers in an individually identifiable way. I understand the sentiment, and I appreciate the hackery... but you put these people at risk today. You need to think much more carefully about how you approach things like this in the future.

Tut tut. What's the threat model?

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by hereme888 »

itake wrote: post #343
crazygringo wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Accountability in terms of what has happened in the past , yes. But the idea that current public locations of identifiable public officers is not justifiable at all. That would be allowing individuals to be stalked in real time. That's not OK.

They are operating in public. They shouldn't have expectations of privacy. Are you against ICE agent tracking apps as well?

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Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by spankalee »

potato3732842 wrote: post #313
ruggeri wrote: post #191

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I believe you are being downvoted because your comment violates the guidelines ("Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously... Edit out swipes."); anyway, that's why I downvoted. Your later comment that enforcement might benefit from latitude to be reasonable and accommodate nuance is not invalid, and you could have just said that rather than call the gp's aspiration "perverted." The expressed norm of guidelines is…

I'm being downvoted by being anything less then apologetically polite while expressing a viewpoint that isn't pro whatever the lowest common denominator wants. That's just how comment sections that keep "rightthink score" are.

I couldn't downvote your direct reply to me, but if I could have I would have because you're being an ass. Calling me "perverted" because I don't think people should block bike lanes says way more about you than me.
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