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FALL SWEEPS: A Street Sweeping and Parking Enforcement Investigation


By Matt Schrader

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.

Research on this story began on August 28, 2009.

Copyright © Matt Schrader, 2009.
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  • JJ
    How I am not surprised. Is there anyone that actually has anything good to say about LA parking enforcement? $4 an HOUR on Grand Ave metered parking.
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