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Find My Parking Cops

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Where does this site get data from? In San Francisco, the SFMTA is the government authority tasked with giving out parking tickets. On average, they issue 1 parking ticket every 24 seconds. They employ about 300 officers who drive these tiny single-seat vehicles around, looking for violations: I thought it would be interesting to visualize parking ticket data. I discovered that the city website people use to pay their tickets also includes a full copy of the citation. But you need to know the citation ID number, which presumably you only know if you have the ticket in your hand. I don't have a car, but my roommate does and he got a ticket recently. This is gold! I can see everything: the make, color, location, the reason for the ticket, license plate, and even the initials of the officer who wrote the ticket. I would really love to be able to see EVERY ticket. But I don't know the IDs of every ticket. BUT WAIT. These numbers look like they go sort of in order. Current IDs are somewhere

Find My Parking Cops ← Back to Map Where does this site get data from? In San Francisco, the SFMTA is the government authority tasked with giving out parking tickets. On average, they issue 1 parking ticket every 24 seconds. They employ about 300 officers who drive these tiny single-seat vehicles around, looking for violations: I thought it would be interesting to visualize parking ticket data. I discovered that the city website people use to pay their tickets also includes a full copy of the citation. But you need to know the citation ID number, which presumably you only know if you have the

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