How we compute this
Methodology
Data source
All statistics come from the public dataset Open Parking and Camera Violations published by the City of New York (~148 million rows). Last refreshed: 9/8/2026. The City of New York provides this data “as is” and makes no representation as to its accuracy or completeness, and does not endorse this site or our analysis.
What we count
We count only tickets whose status shows a decided hearing:
7,125,605
hearing held — not guilty
11,284,352
hearing held — guilty
8,779,456
hearing held — guilty reduction
How rates are computed
dismissal rate = not-guilty outcomes ÷ decided hearings
reduction rate = guilty-with-reduction ÷ decided hearings
Rates are computed per violation type (and per borough). Groups with fewer than 500 decided hearings are excluded to avoid small-sample noise.
Caveats
- These are rates among people who disputed and got a decision — they say nothing about tickets that were simply paid.
- Rates aggregate many years of hearings; enforcement and adjudication practice change over time.
- Historical rates describe groups, not individuals. Your case depends on its own facts and evidence. Nothing here is legal advice.
- The upstream city dataset occasionally pauses its updates. The “last refreshed” date above always reflects the true data cutoff, and we flag pages when the data grows unusually stale.
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