I’ve gotten 4 tickets in Lincoln Park when they’ve apparently posted street cleaning signs on the morning of the event. The signs were not there the night before, I am 100% certain of that, as I always check thoroughly because I cannot afford a ticket. The city is a crook!

Lawsuit. Get a barracuda of a lawyer and file a huge harassment lawsuit. There’s tons of evidence.

Stuff like this makes Mayor Rahm look like a really poor administrator.

City Leaders: Sit the cop down and have a talk with him.

How many smart people that you grew up with became cops? The question is rhetorical. The universal answer is ZERO. That explains this stupidity.

A few years back I watched as a cop started to write a ticket for my vehicle while visiting family. I went to him and asked what the problem was, he told me no city sticker. I told him he should do his job and run the plates. He wasnt happy with my “attitude”. I had to let him know my grandfather was a fellow officer for over 3 decades and I didnt appreciate what he was doing. I didnt get the ticket, but I shouldnt have had to go that far

I think that cop is a hero. Wish he was in my area. He would have a field day writing city sticker tickets to all the folks from Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Ohio, Virginia Texas and Florida who don’t live on my block – just somehow wind up parking here everyday! They are resident cheats and are costing me money. Why should I have to pay increased city sticker fees just because I don’t register my car at my sister’s house or out of state. The law should be no parking overnight without a city sticker. Then the city wouldn’t have such financial trouble. Did you bother to verify where this guys sister actually lives? Did you see her lease? Where do her kids go to school? Chicago? Just wondering…..

Easy fix: Contact 312-744-4000 and tell them you would like to file a CR number with the IPRA. now the prick will have to start writing to/froms to his supervisors, next file a federal 42 1983 case againgt him (make sure you name him specifically along with the city) now you have buried him and the city in paper. Trust me it works! I have legally trained many o’ police officer with that regiment in Chicago. Cops hate being sued, they have enough to worry about with the state of their pensions, and if their married it causes lot of stress in their home lives.

Why is the city waisting time mailing violation notices to suburban addresses????

The cop can write all the tickets he wants but the system should automatically throw them out

If you know your Chicago history, then you wouldn’t mess with someone who has the last name of Spilotro.

[...] According to CBS 2 News Chicago police officer Gary Sanabria seems to be issuing a lot of parking tickets for Chicago city sticker violations to vehicles which clearly exhibit a suburban vehicle sticker. [...]

Officer Gary Sanabria should be fired. Sue officer Gary Sanabria and the city of chicago with a class action law suit.

All Chicago cops and alderman are career criminals that need to be investigated and prosecuted. Time for an F.B.I. investigation. Anyone remember operation “Grey Lord”?

It’s real easy to say Officer Sanabria is a crook or this or that but do any of you realize how many people who live in the City of Chicago try to pull the OLD trick of registering their cars to a family member who lives somewhere else to save on city sticker fee’s or insurance charges? If a car is garaged and used principally in Chicago then it should have a Chicago City sticker. Simple as that. And did any one ask themselves how it’s possible for someone who doesn’t actually live in the city to claim that they were “only visiting” the sick aunt, mom or some other fictional character and yet have their cars parked at those locations every single day? What you have here are a bunch of cheaters who don’t want to pay their fair share or obey the law. They then go crying to an apparently very gullible Dave Savini who bought their story hook,line and sinker. So much for “investigative reporting”.

Steve, I totally agree with you. Spilotro probably has his car registered to a suburb to avioid the city sticker. 20 tickets in 2 weeks. The neighbors must be calling it in that is is his car and no one else’s.
The police officer is doing his job.
You cheaters got caught and your neighbors are turning the cheating street hogs in. Bravo to the police officer!!

Dirty little secret been going on for years
giving tickets to people who don’t deserve them.
The City knows most folks won’t or can’t afford
to take time off to go to court and fight them.
Contesting them through the mail is a sham as well.
I once got a ticket for a fire hydrant that wasn’t there
sent in pictures and all. Guess what. was denied.

many times you run a plate and the car is registered outside the city but the owner’s driver license is registered to a chicago address. i’ve been in traffic court and at city hearings where the judge rules on such a verdict. but ofcourse, all of the experts commentors here are much smarter and more knowledgeable than i am.

Annie, I wish Officer Sanabria worked where I live. Then he could ticket all these parked cars I see everyday which do not have city stickers. That would of course give the owners (my neighbors) the ability to run to Dave Savini and cry about how they were unjustly written a ticket because the car ” is registered somwhere else” and they were “just visiting”. Cheaters, everyone of them. Thank you Officer Sanabria. Keep up the good work.

Right, dude – that’s it. Blanketing the whole block with tickets is absolutely the right answer to your delusional belief that the entire block is scamming the system. Everyone who lives in the city knows that cops will arbitrarily ticket your car just for looking at them wrong or because their wife burnt their eggs that morning.

For every successfully appealed ticket that cops and meter maids write, the amount of the fine should immediately be deducted from their pay. Currently there is no accountability in the system and only by facing some form of consequences will these criminals with a badge ever change their behavior.

Vance, I didn’t say that he should blanket the entire block. But it’s pretty obvious when you see the same car parked everyday on the same street with no city sticker that the owner of the car lives in the city and should have a sticker no matter where the plate comes back to. Like the guy that parks his Corvette on Northwest Highway and has Florida plates on it. He’s been doing that for three years now. Do you think he really lives in Florida? Should he not have a city sticker? Would Officer Sanabria be wrong if he wrote him a ticket? Or the guy down the street from me that has his car registered to where he works, in Niles Illinois. Shouldn’t he have a sticker? I can think of at least ten cars in my immediate area that should have but do not have city stickers. And Joey. When is the last time you saw someone park 2-3 miles from a Metra station? Do you really think that someone would park that far away and then walk to one of the stations to go downtown? Which is what the people in this story would have to do if they where doing what you say they are.

I believe there is no reason to ticket any car unless the city sticker is expired who cares where the car is registered too. There are many folks who visit family or having some sort of personal problems whether it be a divorce, death in the family, illness, or simply visiting or babysitting. There is nothing strange about people visiting loved ones. There are serious crimes to go after and writing tickets does not help stop the gangs from growing or drugs from being consumed. This officer clearly is showing that he is taking this personally, it does not help anyone that these tickets are being thrown out over and over and over again, it is costing tax payers a ton of money by him wasting paper these tickets are written on, as well as wasting the judges time and those who are working in the judicial system.

WHAT A SHAME

I received a ticket for having a clear plastic cover over my license plate about 9 days ago while in Rogers Park. I’m from Wisconsin and was just visiting a friend in the city. I know that the police don’t like tinted covers over plates, but mine was clearly CLEAR. I contested the $50 ticket right away. Personally I think that the officer in question was behind on their monthly ticket quota and was trying to play catch up. The police should worry more about people speeding, having valid plates on their autos and not talking on their cel phones while driving!

What this article nor the comments identify is the violation listed on the ticket. It seems that simply not being a Chicago resident is the reason.

Joe, you are missing the point. There are hundreds if not thousands of Chicago residents who register there car somewhere else and then fail to get a city sticker claiming falsely that they don’t have to get one because the car isn’t registered in the city. I see them everyday in my neighborhood. These people are not visiting someone in Chicago, they LIVE in the city. They are costing the city thousands in revenue. And to portray this Officer in a negative light as some have done here is simply wrong. He is doing his job. I applaud him for it. So should you and the rest of the citizens of Chicago who obey the law and pay their fair share.

Chicago Police and Meter Maids are probably instructed to give out tickets regardless of where you are from. I was given a ticket for no city sticker when it clearly was on the windshield. Explain that one to me. It was a waste of time to have to miss work for that. And to top it off the cop/maid who gave me didn’t show up to court. So, the judge basically threw the case out.

By ordinance, vehicles that are principally garaged in the city more than 30 days must have a city vehicle sticker.

The registration of the vehicle no longer is a legit Dodge. Buy the darn sticker people….we will find you