[yborg]

This is an issue of governance, not policing. The police are doing what the town has asked of them by valuing these tickets high, which is to punish parking infractions. If this is a problem, the townspeople need to get their government to relax these statutes. This is another way that income-based fines work well - the people with the means to influence this change now have an incentive to do so. This is also why it's unlikely to ever happen in most places, because as the article observes it is much more lucrative to find the sweet spot where you can toll people who are unlikely to be able to fight back (poor people, tourists).

[tux1968]

> This is another way that income-based fines work well - the people with the means to influence this change now have an incentive to do so.

You're only thinking of one half of the problem. The rich people who are targeted more vigorously will be able to fight back. But the poor people who are left living in communities where the laws aren't being applied will have to live with the results of lack of enforcement. It sucks living in a place where the police will not punish offenders because it's not worth the effort.