The NYPD has no idea, nor will they comment on why they're on a subway seat ticket binge

Yeah, we here in reality would say an unexplained rise of 17% on taking up two seats (whether the train was full or mostly empty) qualifies as a binge. The 17% increase when broken down is a full 1300 more tickets than they handed out the previous year. NYPD would neither discuss it or speculate as to the reason. We have one, greedy city fingers on your money. The MTA is running terrible deficits and suddenly they up the amount of 'nuisance tickets'? Come on, we'd have hoped the NYPD could cipher things better than that. It's clearly a money grab. Just admit it.

Unless of course honesty isn't the best policy as practiced by the NYPD.