D.C. officials want to recruit everyday citizens to help enforce parking and traffic regulations. Critics say these “citizen cops” are a recipe for disaster.
By Luz Lazo Luz Lazo Transportation reporter covering Washington's Metro, buses, Capital Bikeshare and taxis, and the region's road network Email Bio Follow May 19 at 5:52 PM D.C. officials are so desperate for more solutions to the city’s parking and traffic problems that they’re considering recruiting citizens to help enforce the rules of the road.
Though unconventional, Allen hopes the Citizen Safety Enforcement program could be a resource to reduce troubling road behaviors that put people’s lives at risk. The intent of the pilot program, he said, is to improve road safety — along with two dozen other initiatives included in a comprehensive transportation bill he introduced this month.
In the Los Angeles area, a program known as Volunteers on Patrol in Malibu trains residents to enforce parking regulations, issue parking citations, and help with traffic control and emergency response. Malibu officials say the program is invaluable: Last year, its 18 volunteers contributed 7,516 patrol hours and wrote 9,140, tickets.
“Knowing that anybody out there could be eyes on the street giving you a ticket,” could be a deterrent for bad road behavior, Klein said. “If I am trying to cross the street and [your] car is blocking the crosswalk, you have forced me to walk into traffic. That is when accidents happen,” Allen said. “If you block my bus stop, I now have to step into the street to board my bus and the bus has to stop in the middle of the roadway, impacting everybody else and their safety.”
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