Into Whose Pockets Does Parking Ticket Revenue Go?

 

During the inaugural Safety Committee meeting on February 2nd, after Police Chief Franklin finished her 45 second monthly HPD report that had nothing to do with safety, second in command Captain David Miller gave his parking update, which he called a "breakdown' and which also had nothing to do with safety.  He did say this:  "Parking revenue for December of 2025 was one thousand, or [correcting himself] a hundred and one thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars and forty-seven cents." ($101,413.47.  "Over $101,000" would have sufficed, Captain!)  Miller then went on to say that the total amount of parking revenue from December 2024 was $83,630, though he gave no sense of what types of parking tickets those revenue numbers included.  He also failed to talk about expenditures, such as the cost of parking signs, though perhaps there aren't any signs being bought to replace old and unreadable ones.  And, as HUDseen readers may recall, this was the meeting when Miller announced to the SAFETY Committee that parking was "running great."

That's the police station in the background
and their signs in the foreground.

Signs of dysfunction and a failed city.

We shouldn't be surprised at all if someday someone at City Hall or HPD were found to be stealing parking revenue.

Is it SAFE to say that Mishanda Franklin 
and David Miller find this acceptable?

When it comes to parking, including overnight parking, HPD is obsessed with issuing parking tickets but not much else. These pictures tell the true story of a parking system that is anything but "great." When parking signs are allowed to reach a level where they are literally unreadable, you know something is truly wrong at HPD. They simply don't care. I wouldn't be surprised if they leave the signs like this on purpose. How else can it be explained? They aren't blind, are they?

In the nearly three years that Mishanda Franklin took over at HPD (much of it spent on maternity leave), I have not heard her once mention at a meeting where things stand on crime levels (aka, SAFETY) in the city.  Crime levels and safety might be worse, better or the same since Mishanda took over, but, apparently, she doesn't even want to talk about those issues, so it's difficult to know where things stand.  And Captain David Miller isn't much help either.  It seems that the both of them are too busy dealing with parking tickets.