Council bill would prohibit towing without tickets

Article Summary

• The Philadelphia  city council has voted that a car cannot be towed from a private lot without a ticket 
• The council is enacting this to stop what they call "rogue towers"
• Some towing groups believe this will create a paperwork nightmare for police

Key quote from article

"This will be 56,000 times every quarter that a policeman may have to be called to issue a ticket, and I'll be interested to see on a map . . . where policemen were issuing tickets when major crimes were occurring elsewhere in the district," Green said.

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