The Ticket Trap: Front to Back

That’s why we centered the user experience around the disparities in the system, such as which wards have the most ticket debt and which have been hit hardest because residents can’t pay. We decided against showing trends over time on ward pages because the overall trend in the number of tickets issued is too big and complex a subject to capture in simple forms like line charts. Technical Architecture

The Ticket Trap is the first news app at ProPublica to take this approach to mixing “baked out” pages with dynamic features like search.

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