The city is on pace to rake in $687 million from nearly 10 million parking tickets this year, according to figures revealed at a City Council hearing.
“That’s a 12 percent jump over the $611 million the city made from parking fines in 2009, the NYPD’s top budget expert said.”
As of this January, the NYPD issued 832,290 parking tickets, a 10.5 percent increase over the 753,125 tickets issued through January last year.
Though it’s nowhere near the record of 11.3 million tickets set in 1993, new traffic laws and higher fines have helped the parking tickets become a big boon to the city’s coffers. The NYPD credits the hiring of 234 new traffic enforcement agents and the recently implemented $115 “block the box” tickets – issued to drivers obstructing intersections — for this latest boost.
However, despite ongoing criticism that the flood of parking tickets is just another backdoor tax, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said his agency is not in the “business of generating money.”
“I don’t think I’ve ever had a conversation in my role as commissioner about generating revenue based on tickets. It’s a projection based on headcount made by budget analysts,” Kelly said of the figures.
(Source: http://www.silive.com/)
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With so many of our own unemployed, it would be a good idea for them to apply for the job of giving tickets and having them work in our neighborhoods.
So people, now you admit that the third term for mayor was not a good idea.
The only difference between what the city does and what the mafia does is that what the city does is legal. Shame on them!!!
I always wondered what they do with all that money from the tickets.
Does it go towards the budget?
Also another one for you what do they do with the money for the snow removal budge when they did not have any snow for the passed 3 years?
This year they are crying that they ran out of money. where is the money from the passed 3 years?