New York - Fight Parking Tickets In Person

New York, NY - The city's Independent Budget Office found in a new study that people who contested their parking summonses through the mail were 32 percent more likely to be found guilty than those who pleaded their cases before an adjudicator.

According to the study, those who mail in their pleas beat tickets just 40.6 percent of the time, while 38.8 percent are found guilty, 17.8 percent have penalties reduced and 2.8 percent have their base fines reduced.

But those appealing in person got out of paying fines 49.4 percent of the time, while 29.4 percent were found guilty, 19.8 percent had penalties reduced and 1.4 percent had base fines reduced.