https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ak3y3a/nypd-cop-who-threatened-311-caller-to-protect-parking-spots-gets-dollar500-fine

A New York City cop who used confidential information from the 311 reporting system to call and harass someone complaining about his precinct constantly parking on sidewalks and in bike lanes was slapped with a $500 fine by the city’s conflict of interest board.

New York City has a problem with cops parking on sidewalks and in bike lanes. Generally speaking, the only recourse citizens have for illegal parking is to file a 311 complaint. Those complaints then get forwarded to the appropriate agency, which in this case is the NYPD itself. In effect, those 311 complaints end up being routed to the very precinct and officers who are often the ones parking illegally. As a result, those complaints are typically changed to the status of “closed” without any action being taken.