ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the nexus between authority and sexuality that perpetuates the gendered way of seeing law according to the people and policies found in parking enforcement. It examines images of parking enforcement officers for their semiotic contribution to who law is, the personification of law, or law personified. The chapter also examines the perspectives of parking enforcement from the narratives of parking enforcement officers who are influenced by the geographic circumstances of where they are policing and the communities where they are responsible. Popular references to parking enforcement can be politically illuminating, even charged. In a similar light to that advocated by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) anti-terrorism training of parking employees, these people hold the keys to a dimension of citizenship as they socialize citizens to the expectations of government services and a place in the political community and implicitly mediate aspects of the constitutional relationship of citizens to the state.
