What would convince you that our report will be unbiased? We're going to try to make the data publicly available, does that help?

I never said this was an "evil plot". I don't believe in evil. Nor do I think the City is out to make its drivers poor. I do think that the city has an economic incentive to adjust its policies and enforcement practices to maximize its revenues, and that is antithetical to the idea of parking tickets as violation deterrents, instead of money generators. However, the story pitch is not about proving the economic argument, which is self-evident, but rather about analyzing how parking revenue is collected around the city. We hope to show whether you and your neighbors are paying more than people who live around the block, for instance.