City sets $5.8M goal for parking violations

The city insists that cops don’t have ticket quotas — but Mayor de Blasio’s budget office is projecting an extra $5.86 million in parking summons revenue as part of a crackdown on placard abuses.

Roy Richter, president of the NYPD captains union, called the city’s projection “crazy,” saying the steep figure paves the way for quotas.

“It seems to go against the grain of everything we’ve tried to do in the past three or four years,” he said.

“There’s been no history of enforcement on this. By putting such a high number in the budget, by it’s very nature, it sets a target, and that’s something we’ve tried to move away from.”

As part of a new initiative, the city has hired 100 new traffic agents and a 16-member “antiplacard fraud unit” to ferret out abuse by city employees who get permits to park in spaces that are otherwise restricted.

Last month, de Blasio also announced an added penalty of up to $100 for placard violations on top of the regular parking fine.

But the new efforts to curb widespread placard abuse come after de Blasio compounded the problem last month, when he issued 50,000 new placards to teachers, principals and other school staffers — even though there are only 11,000 parking spots reserved for school use.

That move stemmed from a court ruling that overturned Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s 2008 decision to slash the number of Department of Education placards from 63,000 to 11,000.

The cost of running the new crackdown “will be offset by revenues from increased summons issuance,” the mayor’s budget office predicts, with that revenue expected to level off at $5.43 million by fiscal year 2021.

One traffic cop said on Monday that he has no intention of issuing summonses to fellow officers.

“This mayor wants us to give