[zapzupnz]

I don't believe for a second that this represents the minority. One might be tempted to conjure reddit-like images of Chads and Karens who park their cars where ever, when ever, and for however long they like, but the majority of people aren't like this.

[notyourday]

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Parking-Violat...

That's 11.7M violations for fiscal 2018.

[zapzupnz]

And? What does a page full of data tell me? At a quick glance I can see a lot of violations made repeatedly for the same licence plate; there's no data on whether certain violations are made multiple times by the same person with different vehicles; it's not easy to tell what kinds of violations there are, how much of each, and which are easy to get tickets from unscrupulous parking attendants or which would require actual lack of action by the vehicle's driver or owner… this isn't evidence of anything.

The population of New York may be only 8.5 million, but that doesn't make 11 million infractions an indicator that the majority of those people are the sorts of people to accept parking fines as the cost of owning a vehicle.

[notyourday]

This actually illustrates that the same license plates get tickets i.e. getting parking tickets is the cost of doing business.

[zapzupnz]

That doesn't say anything about whether these people represent the majority, which was my point, though. Not sure why those stats should matter to me.

[zapzupnz]

Ahh, I meant to say "I don't believe for a second that this represents the majority"! Man, this comment makes no sense. Apologies.