The Police should know - better than anyone - what the parking regulations mean

Below is a section from PARKAZINE Edition 2/13/07 which describes an incident where a police officer gave wrong parking information to a driver of a passenger vehicle. Please tell us what you think about this:

PARKAZINE reader Abby emailed me this great question: "While in Manhattan, police people told me that vans that had their back seats removed were considered commercial vehicles, whether or not they had commercial license plates, & whether or not they were apparently so used. They also said that unless they were legally parked...