The Charlottesville Police Department issued 2,260 parking tickets in October, roughly a 50 percent increase from the 1,502 issued during October 2014.
A report by a professional criminal analyst for the Charlottesville Police Department revealed that both months fall within a normal, expected range based on data from the past 5 years.
There has been no rise in parking tickets beyond a standard, expected average this year, according to records from the Charlottesville Treasurer’s Office.
According to the same records, February’s normal ticketing can vary by over 400 percent, from as low as 586 tickets issued to as high as 2,567.
Per year, the normal expected range of tickets issued is about 13,400 tickets on the lower end and 17,700 on the upper end, with a standard deviation of about 2,200.
Of the last five years, 2011 is the only year that exceeded that range. The annual mean is about 15,500 tickets.
Including October, the CPD tickets has issued more than 13,500 tickets in 2015. This year May, June and July were all beneath the expected range. January, September and October have been above average and February, April and August were below average.
Between the start of the fall semester and Nov. 4, roughly 5,300 parking citations were written by the University Parking and Transportation Department, compared with the 5,600 during the same period in 2014.
The University does not coordinate with the Charlottesville Police on parking citations, said Rebecca White, director of University Parking and Transportation.
Revenue from University parking tickets funds the personnel and equipment used by the Parking and Transportation Department. Excess funds are put in reserve for future expansions or projects.
University Police are minimally involved in the ticketing process, University Chief of Police Michael Gibson said. The Department of Parking and Transportation handles the entire process after a citation is issued.
“While University of Virginia Police Officers do have the ability to issue parking tickets they only write a fraction of the parking tickets issued,” Gibson said.
Citations in fiscal year 2015 generated $630,000, more than a third of which went to reserves, White said.
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