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Re: Find SF parking cops

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post #26

Officer 0336 is raking it in for the city. I wonder if there is a correlation with the areas which generate a lot of tickets and other city datasets. Perhaps crime rate or average household income?

It's is amusing that you question whether parking citations correlate with crime rates. The reason they give out tickets for this is that these people have parked unlawfully.

Traffic tickets are typically civil, not criminal.

Re: Find SF parking cops

#34

This is amazing. Can we get a heat map of ticket disbursements?

Hopefully the city already has that, ideally correlated with the coverage from GPS on the officers' cars or devices.

Then they could see where they're under-patrolling and adjust their routes to fill in the gaps.

Re: Find SF parking cops

#38
post #19

Need to pair this with an API for Tesla FSD so that cars just move themselves automatically

Or just pay the very reasonable fee for storing your private property on public land.

I'm fine with paying the fee but

(a) It should be automatic -- if they have the tech to enforce parking like a witch hunt, they should have the tech to just charge people for parking automatically just like Fastrak and everything else. Just have parking meters look for a Fastrak transponder and charge that account for parking, and also automatically send texts to the phone number and e-mail associated with the Fastrak account if time limit is reached. Make the city a good UX. Parking payment should be a zero-effort operation. I shouldn't have to make a wager on how many minutes I'm going to take to finish my meal and risk wagering too many minutes (overpaid) or too little (get fined). Just charge me according to my actual usage.

(b) Parking signs are too goddamn hard to parse, that's the real problem.

Re: Find SF parking cops

#39
post #26

Officer 0336 is raking it in for the city. I wonder if there is a correlation with the areas which generate a lot of tickets and other city datasets. Perhaps crime rate or average household income?

It's is amusing that you question whether parking citations correlate with crime rates. The reason they give out tickets for this is that these people have parked unlawfully.

Sometimes yes. I've also received tickets from parking enforcement for legal parking and good luck disputing that without getting into a lawsuit. I literally had a ticket issued at a timestamp of when I was on the other side of the city.

So there could easily be secondary correlations between areas filled with people who are willing to fight invalid citations and that might correlate with wealth / crime rates.

Re: Find SF parking cops

#40
post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's is amusing that you question whether parking citations correlate with crime rates. The reason they give out tickets for this is that these people have parked unlawfully.

Traffic tickets are typically civil, not criminal.

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