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‘Find My Parking Cops’ Tracks Officers Handing Out Tickets All Around San Francisco
"Find My Parking Cops" pins the near-realtime locations of parking officers all over the city, and shows what they're issuing fines for, and how much.
SFMTA told 404 Media in a statement Tuesday evening: “Citations are a tool to ensure compliance with parking laws, which help keep our streets safe and use our limited curb space efficiently and fairly. As the SF Chronicle noted, the city has recently ramped up parking citations in an effort to make up for a $322 million deficit. Walz previously made Bop Spotter, a project where he hid a solar-powered Android phone in a box on a pole in San Francisco, set it to record audio, and had it send songs to Shazam’s API to identify what people are listening to in public.
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