Ass Backwards at HPD and DPW

This time of year, it is especially important that vehicles not park on the WRONG SIDE of the street, lest they be in the way of the DPW snowplows, and, as is almost always the case, to avoid being issued a $15 WRONG SIDE PARKING ticket from HPD.  You would assume that during the nights and mornings when it snows and when the DPW plows are out would be the most important night for HPD to be out issuing tickets to vehicles parked in the way of the plows, right? 

You know, to remind people why one of the two reasons for the tickets, and for the rule, is to keep your car out of the way of the plows.  Fail to ticket those cars and the owners learn no lesson, they pay no fine, they continue to park on the wrong side during snow storms, and one side of the street fails to be properly and completely cleared of snow.  Apparently, this is not how HPD or DPW sees things. 

The mornings after the 3 most recent snowstorms (last night, last Friday night, and the previous Friday night), I took a walk to see if cars parked on the wrong side of streets had been ticketed by HPD in the early morning hours.  Any car parked on the wrong side, completely covered in snow, and where the plow had obviously gone around it was a car that had been parked on the wrong side overnight and should have received a ticket. I checked the windshields, the doors and the city's online ticket payment portal (with license plate numbers used). 

8 cars this morning; 5 or 6 cars last Saturday morning; 4 or 5 the Saturday prior -- all parked on either Warren, State, Prospect Avenue or N. 6th, and none of them were ticketed by HPD.  Not one of them.  Here are some pictures of those unticketed cars parked on the wrong side in the way of the plows, starting with Saturday, March 4th, on the odd side:

Then this past Saturday, March 11th after the snowfall, when DPW plows had been out the previous night. On the even side: 

And this morning at 8:30, after a busy night for DPW and their plows, cars parked on the odd side on an even day:

It's not just that HPD failed to ticket all of these cars parked on the wrong side of the street, it's that they failed to do so on the nights when the cars were creating the most trouble for DPW and the reason the Overnight Parking Rule was created in the first place.  HPD regularly issues $15 WRONG SIDE tickets to dozens of cars a night when neither the DPW plows or the DPW street sweeper are out operating.  But they don't bother ticketing when it snows and the plows are out.  Because?

How much in revenue is the city missing out on because Police Chief Ed Moore and DPW Superintendent Robert W. Perry both feel that this is a reasonable, fair and logical approach to enforce the Overnight Parking Rule?  It's  at times like this that I worry about their cognitive abilities.