City Of Los Angeles Parking Violations Bureau

If I could give a –5 star review for the City of Los Angeles Parking Violations Bureau, I totally would. I went in to apply for a residential parking permit this afternoon and waited forty five minutes to be helped. During my time there, the other people waiting to be «helped,» as well as those actively being «helped» at the windows, were in an uproar. All around me were confused and frustrated people loudly voicing their dissatisfaction with the efficiency and performance of the City of Los Angeles Parking Violations Bureau staff. I was confused as to what their issues were until it was my turn at the window. What could have been a simple and informative exchange was drawn out as I was condescended to by not only the window worker, but her manager after I asked to speak with someone who could help me better. This office is a mess; I’ve never been in a more discouraging atmosphere. My advice? Hire some employees who know what they’re doing and aren’t just form pushers. What a joke.

I was very surprised to get a welcome and a ticket stub handed to me as I entered the facility. The wait was no more than 5 minutes and the young lady behind the counter was very kind. I was surprised to learn than 2 citations were correctable… Thank you! ;)

No one is fan of parking tickets, I understand City need money to paid its cop and parking violation are great funding for them. I not complain about that but recently my first parking ticket that I recent from the CIty is totally not right.
I got a expire meter parking ticket for L.A. Live in Sunday, when the meter is free. I first think was a joke. How on earth i get a ticket from a meter that is free that day. The meter light wasn’t on or flashing red, also the screen is barely scratch and hard to read. All those reason and I though I call them up and they will acknowledge their mistake.
After 4 months, I got a letter from them that they finally finish review my case. They said I still had to paid and the ticket were valid. Jeeez, don’t they know their own rule? They just wanna keep wasting my time or write a them a check to go over. It is becoming more like a mafia like extortion behavior. Instead use that resource to fight crime, they making its own rule.
Documented everything, take picture on the meter and street, they won’t believe you unless you show the picture, Even though they know is their faults.

It wouldn’t make much sense for someone to tell a bureau to suck their cock. Such a command is literally impossible and figuratively baffling. It’s not certain the receiver would obtain much pleasure, and, as with most actions, the bureau probably wouldn’t be able to perform. Or, if it were to perform, it would perform three months after you initially asked it to, and you’d have to fill out a bunch of paperwork before you could ever arrange a meeting.
But even though I don’t like saying this phrase, and would never say it to a person unless the two of us were absolutely inebriated with arousal, the City of Los Angeles Parking Violations Bureau can go suck my cock.
I support my brothers and sisters on this list and I am sure their complaints are legitimate. and because there are already so many examples of how the bureau has gone wrong, I’m not going to post a long-​winded heavily detailed story to once more assert that they are incompetent and corrupt. I’d just like to leave you with one word that I think sums the LA Parking VIolations Bureau up rather nicely: LIARS. They are FUCKING LIARS. They will make up evidence to prevent having to refund the money they’ve stolen from you. It’s rather funny being told my parking meter was expired when I have fucking EYES and could see that it indeed wasn’t when I returned to it. They can type up as much bullshit as they want, it’s not ever going to change the fact that I returned to my meter with a green light blinking on my meter and a parking ticket on my windshield. Such a cock guys, seriously. Suck my big fat fucking sausage.

Where else can you get a 78 $ parking ticket for parking in front of your own apartment!!! I mean sure I happen to park 10min past the time allowed. Ok fine I get that but it as street sweeping day. It wasn’t handicapped or red zone.
Ok I don’t mind paying a fine but $ 78dolars!!! Geesus come on! If min wage is like idk 8 bucks? That means someone on min wage needs to work all fkn day to pay for this sht. That’s not cool
That’s stealing.
On top if this crap at least fix the dam streets. Pot holes and trees falling on top of cars.

Great service. Not a bad line at all. Plenty of parking meters of you come at right time. Just wish they had some jazz or something playing so it wasn’t such a dull place lol

those people are broke, rob, cheat, bit ch. i got a ticket, they can’t prove nothing. they said just pay the ticket $ 75 for no parking. f. bit ch. eat sh it. go to he ll. these lazy gov. they only know how to rob, cheat their people. go fu ck urself, go to hell. broke bi tch. the city gov. is broke, can’t feed their dogs.

I hate this place. Every time I’ve been here, it’s a terrible experience. Why is getting a parking permit so impossible? They clearly don’t care about LA residents and they don’t care about helping people. The employees are completely incompetent and have no empathy whatsoever. I hate this place.

Money hungry city of LA is at it again. I parked my work truck in a residential neighborhood for less than 2 hours to do some emergency work on a customers house at midnight and received a parking ticket. No signs are posted in this neighborhood, not even street cleaning signs. Apparently you can’t park a commercial vehicle that’s over 22′ long in a residential area. Instead of a warning the city just hands you a $ 103 ticket! Thanks a lot! Small business owners in LA do pay taxes and spend money here! Why would you penalize a business owner for working??? Hopefully the mayor reads this and cuts a little break for licensed business owners who are just trying to make a living.

I’m ok with the cops. But I thoroughly hate meter maids! In the past 3 days I have received 3 tickets.
1. Parked about 4 inches in the red.
2. They couldn’t read the vin # on my old 94 Ford Truck
3. They could read the street sign and ticketed me when it should have been the cars across the street.
I know that fighting them would be a waste of my time. So from now on I keep my cars in the garage and off of the street. I put off doing a home improvement job because of these fines. So who does the city really hurt? The independent business person! We have a horribly run city.

***** You must bring the actual paper version of your current registration. They will not accept registration renewal confirmation displayed on your smartphone screen. They claim to be unable to confirm current registration on their computer system. *****

Okay, it’s taken me a minute to think about why I’m so pissed about this ridiculously expensive ($ 93) ticket.
I mean I was in the wrong (even with hazard lights on I know it’s illegal to park part way into a «red zone»). So, really, parking there even if it was only for a minute was a calculated risk. I know that.
I think it’s the fact the officer RAN to make sure he could give me the ticket. Yes, you read that correctly. He RAN. As in he knew I was there, heard me say «I’m right here, please don’t give me a ticket» as he was walking up to my car, but because of whatever quota they have, instead of being a decent human being, he apparently thought to himself «I need to run to the car so I ensure she gets this ticket».
I just can’t wrap my mind around that. I mean that’s a whole new level of asshole right there.

I received a ticket (Citation #4 257 249 651) on April 27^th for parking and paying for a meter, which happened to be during street cleaning. Now I should have paid more attention to the signs, my ticket was justified. It is was happened afterwards that is not. While not everyone can always afford to pay their tickets immediately, I always do just because you are going to have to pay for it one way or another. Thankfully I always write my citation number on my check and I mailed this ticket on April 29^th, which the City of Los Angeles cashed on May 4^th.
Fast forward to end of May and I receive a notice from the City of Los Angeles Parking Violation Bureau, it states that my ticket has not be paid and if not paid by June 4^th the ticket amount will double. I looked at the statement and noticed it had the exact same date, time, and location as the ticket I had already paid, however, when cross referencing it with my checkbook I noticed the citation number was different (Citation #4 257 249 662). I called the Bureau only to find out that they had voided the original ticket I paid for, while still cashing the payment, but then issued me a second ticket (which I never received) hoping they could get another payment from me. I am not the first person to say the Parking Violation Bureau is shady, but hopefully if we all keep publicly announcing their wrong doings we can one day fix this corrupt government run organization. The officer who did this most likely was trying to meet his monthly quota last second and normally I know officers get a little more ticket happy to meet this quota, but this was a whole new low.

This is the most most disorganized establishment I have ever been to. Perhaps they should hire a manager. I will not be back to this location.

A pleasant surprise.
Even though I fully and openly loathe anything to do with the LA Parking Violations Bureau, I needed to go get a parking permit to park in my heavily parking restricted neighborhood.
So I’ll make it clear, this review is only about my experience at the 3333 Wilshire office, and only for getting a parking permit. The rest of the LA City Parking Violations Bureau (cracy) is the worst of the worst of the worst.
Now that I’ve made myself clear, on with the review:
They open at 9am and was able to find a one hour meter right in front. Wasn’t sure I’d make it in one hour, but I took an uncalculated risk.
At 9:05 there was already a room full of people and a long line. The security guard was on top of it. He asked me why I was there and gave me a number. I was about 20 away from my number being called. Every window had a clerk working it, so it moved quickly for the first twenty minutes. After that half the clerks abandoned their posts. Kinda’ weird, but that’s how it is. Fortunately, about eight people who had numbers ahead of me must have bailed, because my number came up within about 25 minutes of my arrival. Not bad at all.
There were a number a problems encountered while they were working on my permits, but they did indeed work on them and even went above and beyond to try to make it work. Very cool No attitude at all. Very professional and respectful service. I wasn’t at all expecting that. Such a rare find anywhere these days… and super rare in the field of public service.
From start to finish, I was there 45 minutes. I even had 15 minutes to spare on my parking meter when I got back to my car! Calculated risk, rewarded!
Keep up the good work you guys! I was duly impressed. No doubt your jobs are the most secure in the world, thanks to the myriad convoluted parking rules and regulations in Los Angeles.

Too bad negative starts aren’t available! These guys are the scum of the earth, worse than cockroaches. If my last job option was a parking enforcement officer or death id choose death. Go get a real job. The city of Los Angeles is ran by a bunch of crooks. They impounded my trailer and stated they left several violations on the trailer which is BS and if they did where did they leave them? On the bed where the wind could blow it away!

Will you please sign & share my petition on
I am trying to get the current municipal code changed to allow small business owners to park a single commercial vehicle in front of their own home. We are sick of the City of LA issuing tickets and taking money from small business owners — You can help! Sign & Share!

The workers are always cool…
There use to hearing bullshit all day so what do you expect…
They didn’t give you the ticket the meter maid did…
This is one job I could never do. LOL

Out in under an hour at 12:00 on a Friday for a permit. Every 15 minutes or so they let pay ticket only customers jump ahead. Lovely staff. Read instructions online or call ahead with questions. There were several oblivious people in line that took up way too much time. Parking can be rough. Garage I parked in was $ 10 for the hour :/
There is a café next door which is awesome. It’s air conditioned. Pens were mostly out of ink — so bring your own, especially if they have you fill out forms.

The city of Los Angeles parking system is really corrupt! I just got a parking ticket in koreatown in front of coffee bean on Wiltshire blvd. Apparently was street cleaning day. I was in the car feeding my baby while my husband was buying coffee when this really unhappy officer started writing me a ticket. I told her I was in the car and that I was waiting for my husband or I could move my car, but no she started giving me this really bad attitude and wrote me a ticket anyway! Really? So unfair that these low life’s think they have authority over us and act like real asswholes.