Mayor’s placard placate

Mayor de Blasio on Thursday announced his second “crackdown” in two years on parking-placard abuses — but the new regulations won’t make a dent in the 125,000 permits carpeting the city.

And people caught parking illegally won’t have their permits yanked until after the third offense.

Officials said they plan to increase the fine for violations from $50 to $250 if they can get Albany to go along.

They also plan to start using stickers instead of placards to prevent switching between vehicles.

The most dramatic change won’t come until 2021, when digital permits will replace the placards and automatically register cars as illegally parked.

The mayor defended the current number of placards, claiming the problem is illegal use, not quantity.

Critics didn’t see it that way.

“The sheer number of placards is the key problem here,” said Nick Sifuentes of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.

In an admission that cops are reluctant to ticket fellow cops, 10 traffic-enforcement officers from the Department of Transportation will patrol “hot spots” such as lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn.

“Asking people to write a ticket related to a member of their same agency is uncomfortable,” de Blasio said.

Despite the scarcity of space around police stations, de Blasio promised to build more lots for officers’ personal vehicles.