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One City, One Decade, One Million Parking Tickets

From 2010 to 2019, the city of Ann Arbor police wrote more than 1 million parking tickets.

That city’s parking police actually handed out 1,046,204 parking tickets that decade. That's 287 parking tickets a day, every day for 10 years. The data comes from the city of Ann Arbor's annual audited budget.

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