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One of the beauties of parking, it’s like the IRS. If you get a parking ticket, you are guilty until you have proven yourself innocent ... And that’s worked well for us.

Unnamed "senior District official" quoted in a withering 115-page audit of the three agencies that issue Washington, D.C.'s parking tickets. The audit portrayed parking ticketing in the city as arbitrary and inconsistent.

Unnamed "senior District official" quoted in a withering 115-page audit of the three agencies that issue Washington, D.C.'s parking tickets. The audit portrayed parking ticketing in the city as arbitrary and inconsistent.

Daniel Luzer is GOVERNING's news editor.