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Philadelphia Parking Authority Officers to Receive New Training to Stop Increase in Assaults

A protected bike lane near 15th Street and Market Street in Philadelphia.
Tom MacDonald
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WHYY
A protected bike lane near 15th Street and Market Street in Philadelphia.

Parking Authority officials are giving their enforcement officers specialized training in an effort to stop an escalation of assaults on the people who write parking tickets and boot cars in Philly. WHYY's Tom MacDonald reports.

(Original air-date: 7/15/22)

WHYY reporter Tom MacDonald is a lifelong Philadelphia-area resident who has worked in the region since the mid-1980s. Tom started in commercial radio covering the MOVE standoff with police for WFIL-AM. He was also City Hall Bureau Chief, covering government and politics for more than a decade, for WWDB-FM.