New Yorkers have dozens of diabolical ways to cheat the city’s unevenly enforced traffic laws and easy-to-fool license-plate readers: temporary tags from other states, fake plates bought off Amazon, bent plates, letters or numbers painted over with Wite-Out, a sticker that turns an “L” into an “I,” Bond-villain plate flippers. Even a well-placed leaf can allow cars to slip past tolls or red-light cameras. Many vehicles with defaced or concealed plates have numerous traffic violations and unpaid fines . A homemade parking placard on the dashboard sometimes can be enough to avoid a parking violation — even a low-effort one that reads “Dunkin Donuts employee.”

Sal Cacciatore, a no-nonsense Brooklynite and longtime bicycle commuter, records every form of evasion and puts the worst offenders

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