The police can help you to reach that goal.
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Similar to criminal robocallers referring to their grift as “courtesy calls”.
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IMHO, the way we fund police should be tax dollars. Only tax dollars. Separated out, so everyone knows exactly how much they personally are paying the police. And can have a voice as to this when it comes to election time…
All the fines, fees, and such? Other than victim restitution, any proceeds should be put into a national pot and either distributed equally to every citizen, or distributed via lottery (except for relatives of government officials or any members of any branch of law enforcement). No one from any level of government should benefit in any way, shape, or form from law enforcement activity. (And government officials and their families should be banned from obtaining anything from forfeited property auctions.)
There should be no fee for defending yourself in court. The state should pay the defense fee for anyone who is not found guilty. If any misconduct (down to failure to provide bodycam video), inconsistency, or if anyone in the prosecution is caught in a lie- then they should be given the maximum sentence the accused faced.
Honestly, that cops don’t want body cams only shows that they are corrupt. If they weren’t, they would welcome the proof of what they are saying.
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That doesn’t fix the problem.
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This sounds more like the parking authority than the cops.
The PPA makes the cops look like Boy Scouts. Also - it’s not actually controlled by the City. It’s controlled by Harrisburg & has been a huge Republican patronage shop. Lots of high level, very well paid jobs that don’t seem to do much. Except screw people, organizations and the City all year long.
And have interesting book keeping on the money that’s supposed to go to the school district. Fuckers.
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It’s much the same in Dallas; the transit system is star-shaped, so that any crosstown trip requires you to travel into the city center, then back out to your destination, coupled with unconscionably long waits during off-peak hours, especially in economically disadvantaged areas (which are where public transit is most needed).
I suspect that a recently announced series of “improvements” will in reality mean fewer options for more people.
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i wonder what kick backs they get from calling in a tow with their favored company…
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Where is Gritty on this?
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So this is the “bad thing that happens in Philadelphia.”
If only it were possible to find out who owns the car you are towing by I don’t know sending a messenger boy to a magical database machine who tell you who owns the car so you can send then a telegram or something??
But nah, technology will never solve that problem 
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The real trick is to divorce the funds collected from the agency in charge of enforcing. In theory, moving the funds from the police to instead a fund to pay as you say for social resources, or for medical infrastructure might make sense. But this only works as long as the cops on the ground no longer feel pressure to generate revenue. And also if the cops on the ground still feel motivated to actually enforce the laws and statutes.
It won’t be easy to change, as the cops will be resentful of losing their legal grift, and will most likely slack off on the job, refusing to enforce at all. But not doing anything about it isn’t acceptable either.
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