Read through the article, and yeah honestly I struggled to find the point. Seems like this specific town gets a ton of money from cops dinging people with minor infractions, but I didn’t see any suggestion that the cops were somehow inflating that number. Sounds like a lot of people there can’t afford the ticket, so they ignore the summons and get dinged again for not showing up.
Sooooo yeah, the data suggests something is fucky, but it’s not like cops are breaking into garages to ticket people, so what’s actually happening?