‘I’m a traffic agent in my blood': How New York’s most prolific parking cop hands out 19,000 tickets a year generating fines of $1.2million

New York’s most prolific traffic cop has no mercy for law-breaking motorists and unflinchingly issued almost 19,000 parking tickets in a year.

Arnous Morin, 53, of Brooklyn, wrote 18,953 parking tickets in the 2015 fiscal year, according to the New York Post.

They generated fines of $1.2million for the city – but Morin says he dislikes conflict and that drivers would have nothing to fear if they just ‘read the signs.’

In fact, more than half of his citations were simply because drivers did not move their vehicles during street cleaning hours.

And Morin says he always observes the mandatory five minute grace period and sometimes a little more to allow motorists time to move.

But if they don’t, he is ruthless.

‘It’s never OK to break the law,’ he told the Post. ‘The law is hard, but it’s the law.’

Morin became a teacher in his native Haiti at the age of just 19, teaching Maths and Spanish, according to his LinkedIn profile.

He then become the principal of a Catholic school.

But he moved his wife and four children to Brooklyn in 2005 and arrived himself the following year following the violence in his homeland.