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• Source: Buffalo News
• Date: July 09, 2006
• URL: Read the story
• Bylines: Patrick Lakamp
• Topics: Local Government
• Data Types: Local Data
• Description/Excerpt: Patrick Lakamp of the Buffalo News used local records to show that "a Buffalo police officer who ticketed more than 200 drivers for illegal parking also charged them a towing fee - but none of the vehicles was towed." More than half of the 242 tickets written by Milton Jeffries in the past 14 months were waived after owners complained to the city. The paper found Jeffries' pattern by analyzing a database of city parking tickets used for a 2005 story.