Just when you thought it was safe to park on the streets, the A&E real-life series PARKING WARS® is back with a vengeance. New season, new city, new characters! New "people you love to hate."

In Season 5 we're in the trenches with the men and women of Detroit and Providence parking departments as they ticket, boot, tow, and impound the cars of problem parkers, with unexpected and outrageous results.

Everyone's favorite Detroit characters are back, bringing wilder drama and more outrageous conflicts than ever in the new season of Parking Wars. This season the confrontations reach a new level of danger when returning booters Michele and Courtney face-off with screaming scofflaws, a man attempting to escape in his booted car nearly runs over Rodney, a teenage football player physically blocks his mama's car from getting towed, and a boot-listed driver chases down Rodney and Sonjia. There are new faces: Motor City musician Darryl who doesn't miss a beat when an irate citizen hits a sour note, and intrepid Eric who fearlessly takes the heat while trying to keep hydrants clear for firefighters battling a blaze. Meanwhile it's "Primetime Ponytail," when everyone's favorite blinged-out parking officer unleashes a ticket storm on bad parkers — and they retaliate in riotous fashion.

In a new twist this season, Parking Wars expands beyond the original Motor City to ride with "the people we love to hate" in a very different town — the parking officers of Providence, Rhode Island. In a town originally built for horse and buggy, parking a car can be the most frustrating challenge citizens face, and the men and women of the Providence parking enforcement get the brunt of driver outrage. Old-fashioned New England sensibility is turned on its head as illegal parkers are caught in the act of evading the law — the result? Intense and hilarious confrontations:

"Johnny Tickets" lives up to his nickname, constantly evoking the ire of downtown Providence parkers as he nails them for their indiscretions. A cacophony of crazed characters confronts Debbie as she enforces the law while Evelyn makes friends AND enemies with the boisterous denizens of her Italian Federal Hill beat. Charles tirelessly patrols the tough neighborhood he grew up in, where locals verbally assault him with every name in the book (except his own). Mary throws down tricks she's learned raising seven kids to discipline unruly parkers, Patty tries to shame drivers who violate the law, and Bonnie battles belligerent rule-breakers, all with unexpected consequences.