City here handed out tickets to people like that. Once. It backfired so spectaculary that they didnt want to seperate the legit tickets out of the wrongfull issued or try again.

You are probably wondering wrongfully issued? Yes, you see that “sidewalk” was in many cases still owned by the Houseowner. They bought the land from Street to the backyard back in the day, when the Street was build. Only some sold it back to the City years later.