Focus on City Hurdles

* My automobile was stolen on Feb. 9 from my workplace and was not recovered until March 9. On Feb. 10, the person who had stolen my car got a parking ticket in Hollywood, but the system isn’t integrated well enough to alert me as the owner (even though I had filed a police report) that the ticket had been issued. Two more tickets were issued between Feb. 9 and the time the car was recovered by the LAPD four weeks later.

Now, to protest those tickets, I can’t simply ask the city division that issued the tickets to plug my theft report number from the LAPD into its system to delete the tickets. That would be too simple. Instead, I am forced to pay $23 to purchase the police theft report to send a copy to the parking violations division. Rather than focusing on grandiose plans, perhaps our mayoral candidates, and even our current mayor in his waning days in office, can find out why such hurdles make many of our citizens, like myself, frustrated with the lack of integration between various city departments.

GEORGE BULLIS

Los Angeles