Looking at the data in the article from the Cranston Patch, is there any other explanation? The number of parking tickets issued per day jumped from 1.2 per day for the first 14 days of November to 68.5 per day for November 15th and 16th. Additionally, the jump only occurred in the home districts of the City Councilors who voted against a new police contract that Mayor Fung had negotiated.

Fung vowed today, on the Dan Yorke Show to get to the bottom of it and find out if the officers were instructed by a senior officer to exact this sort of “payback.”

Looking at the numbers, is there any other explanation?