Who will help the parking control officers?
Pushed to their limit by the viral image of a parking control officer clinging to the hood of a car, San Francisco's parking ticket-writers are calling on the city's law enforcement to do a better job of protecting them, according to reports.
The San Francisco Examiner reported Friday that workers feel that "too little" has been done to protect them from attacks or to prosecute the perpetrators in the 12 assaults recorded to date, which include spittings, shovings and at least one beating.
There are about 270 union parking control officers in San Francisco, the newspaper reported.
In September, PCO Arabi Najdawi, 53, had hot coffee thrown in his face before he was beaten unconscious by someone he ticketed in the Marina, the newspaper reported.
Najdawi's attacker. as well as Bo Mousombath, who supposedly drove through the city with a parking control officer on the hood of her car, have both been arrested and charged with crimes.
