Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets (2018)
There's a strange incentive for cities.<p>On the one hand, they could be doing this kind of work themselves to save their citizens, who they theoretically are there to represent, money. On the other hand, these parking tickets are clearly a huge source of money if one bad corner can generate $100,000 per year in tickets (based on a 50% reduction being a $60,000 reduction).<p>Parking tickets aren't meant to be an income stream, they're meant to be a disincentive program to ensure certain goals are met.<p>Imagine if each major city had a small department consisting of a couple of data engineers, a UX designer, and a sociologist, all working together on programs like preventing parking tickets. I wonder what other avenues such a team could attack to help citizens.