A heatmap of where and when Phoenix police write traffic citations. Drag the slider to move through the hours; pick a day of the week or a violation type to refocus. Watch the hotspots shift as the day goes on.
This is the legal, useful cousin of "find the speed trap": it's built entirely on public records — the City of Phoenix Open Data Traffic Citations dataset, covering 2018–2025. These are police-issued moving violations (civil + criminal), not parking tickets — Phoenix doesn't publish parking-citation data.
It is history, not a forecast. It shows where enforcement has happened. Patrol routes, school zones and priorities change, so don't read it as a guarantee of where a ticket will or won't be written today. Locations are recorded to the hundred-block or intersection and geocoded with the US Census geocoder, so points are approximate (block-level). About — of citations could be placed on the map; the rest had addresses the geocoder couldn't resolve. Fine amounts aren't in the public data.
Data: City of Phoenix public records · map © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO · part of traqqit