Transportation and parking expert Prof. Donald Shoup of the Urban Planning Department proposes increasing fines for chronic offenders of parking violations in the 10/27/10 edition of the Los Angeles Times:
Stronger punishments for serial offenses are standard legal practice. As an extreme example, California sentences third-time felony offenders to life in prison. No one should receive a life sentence after three parking tickets, but higher fines for repeated parking offenses do fit logically within the legal system. Flat-rate parking fines are like treating hardened criminals and first-time offenders equally.
Links:
[1] http://luskin.ucla.edu/home
[2] http://luskin.ucla.edu/school-public-affairs
[3] http://lewis.ucla.edu/lewis-center/initiatives/transportation
[4] http://luskin.ucla.edu/school-public-affairs/urban-planning
[5] http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-shoup-parking-20101027,0,5145295.story