"Riley Walz, the same app-maker behind Bop Spotter which uses Shazam to pick up passing tunes from a mystery location in the Mission District and LooksMapping, the restaurant "hotness" meter, has a pretty useful new app called Find My Parking Cops, which maps out the shift routes of every SF parking enforcement officer by the tickets they write, every day."
"Walz found that officers issue tickets in a sequential but not consecutive order, and using AI he was able to predict citation numbers and write a script to capture them as they're written. On some, Walz notes, there are even personal notes which appear to be internal, and wouldn't appear on a printed citation such as, "100% in marked bus stop red paint... called me an asshole.""
Find My Parking Cops maps shift routes of every San Francisco parking enforcement officer by capturing citation records seconds after tickets are written. The developer reverse-engineered publicly available SFMTA citation data and used AI to predict sequential citation numbers, enabling a script to collect new tickets as they are issued. The tool lets users track specific officers by badge number, view daily citation tallies, and identify frequent citation locations. Captured entries sometimes include internal notes that would not appear on printed citations. The app exposes enforcement patterns, leaderboards for citation totals, and routes derived from ticket timestamps, facilitating avoidance of citations.
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