We're In Good Hands, Don't You Worry (Even If We Are Missing a Great Cop)!

Talk about dysfunction and a city that isn't interested in paying attention to quality-of-life issues!

An enormous white box truck has been occupying two parking spaces on North 6th Street for at least 5 months.  During the entire 150 days and nights or more that it has not moved from those two parking spaces, it has not been issued one parking ticket of any kind.

The old green pickup truck parked behind the long and wide box truck has not moved for at least 7 months.  It has not moved from that parking space since for more than 200 days and nights.  Prior to October, the pickup had been parked in the space that the rear half of the box truck is now occupying, unmoved for close to one year and spilling all of its oil on the street.  That inoperable green pickup truck was parked UNMOVED on a city street leaking oil for 11 months or more.  That lovely vehicle, with its hood partially open all the time and which does appear to have a valid registration sticker, has been parked unmoved in one of two parking spaces on 6th Street between Rope Alley and Prospect Street for over one and half years.  For over one and a half years it has not moved from the curb, and it also has never received on parking ticket of any kind.

No movement, no tickets, no problem.

Notice the debris and gravel that DPW 
cannot remove.  Unswept debris eventually makes 
its way into our precious sewer system, thus 
the street sweeper and overnight parking rules.

One day in October, fed up with the situation, I called HPD to complain about the pickup truck.  Within an hour, the apparent owner of the pickup, who owns the house at the corner of 6th & Prospect, told former police officer Luis Martinez that he "was waiting on a part" to fix his vehicle.  Martinez made the owner move the car so that Code Enforcement could clean up the oil mess on the street, which, apparently, they did after the pickup was rolled or pushed into its present space nearest Prospect Street where it has been parked partially in a yellow NO PARKING zone for the past 7 or 8 fucking months, 3 months longer than officer Martinez remained a Hudson cop.  The inoperable pickup truck has been UNMOVED and ignored by HPD and DPW all the while.

Neither the box truck nor the pickup has received one overnight parking ticket in the past year and half.  Why?  Because anyone can park/leave their vehicle -- even if it doesn't work -- for as long as they like on North 6th between Washington and State since there is no overnight parking rule there, not even for one night of the week.  DPW can't (and doesn't) sweep the west side of 6th between Washington & State, nor can they properly clear snow from that side of the street to the curb.  Apparently, this is so because Rob Perry is fine with it, as are Mishanda Franklin and Kamal Johnson (his aide was made aware of the situation a few months ago).

The box truck seems to be a storage unit for food and 
supplies that make their way to the Jamaican bodega 
in the 200 block of Warren.  The box truck in the fore-
ground was recently receiving items from the larger one,
parked illegally the entire time, of course.  

Is it any surprise that HPD officer Luis Martinez, the finest HPD cop I have ever dealt with, fled Hudson after less than two years at HPD?