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EXCLUSIVE: Mayor Will Crack Down on Reckless Police Employees
Starting next year, NYPD officers and employees will lose their city-issued parking placard if they get too many camera-issued moving violation tickets.
December 12, 2019
Manhattan DA Vance Charges Reckless Cyclist with Penalty He Rarely Levies Against Drivers
No one is arguing that the top prosecutor should not have charged the biker with the high-level misdemeanor of reckless endangerment, but why doesn't he levy the same charge with any regularity to motorists who do the very same thing?
December 6, 2019
Op-Ed: Welcome Dermot Shea — Now, Carry Out the Council’s Placard Crackdown
It remains to be seen if new the NYPD Commissioner — who was sworn in on Sunday — will do what needs to be done.
December 1, 2019
Advocates: Cuomo Must Save Delivery Riders From More NYPD Enforcement
With Mayor de Blasio unwilling to rein in the NYPD, advocates are calling on the governor to put a stop to the ongoing harassment with his pen.
November 22, 2019
EDITORIAL: Mayor Has Some Nerve Disputing Streetsblog’s Facts — And Saying Our ‘Worldview’ is Biased
At an otherwise unrelated press conference on Wednesday, Mayor de Blasio dismissed our spate of recent reporting of ineptitude by NYPD officers.
November 21, 2019
Mayor Didn’t Crack Down on Reckless Cops, Yet Does Not Feel Responsible for Speeding Cop’s Death
He's still promising "more will be done," but it's unclear if anything has been done.
November 20, 2019
KOMANOFF: Visit to Site of Matt Travis’s Death Invokes Sadness, Rage
I needed to know exactly how Matt Travis died.
November 18, 2019
NYPD and Mayor Have Ignored Repeated Warnings About Recklessly Driving Cops
Neither took action against reckless cops that might have saved the life of Officer Garman Chen, a speed demon with a long list of moving violations.
November 17, 2019
Cops Hunting the Hit-and-Run Toyota Sienna that Slammed into Cyclist
The driver caused a horrific trail of carnage that, nonetheless, the NYPD deemed not severe enough to warrant a full crash investigation.
November 12, 2019
Op-Ed: Move Quickly on the Vehicular Violence Accountability Act
Law makers must pass a much-needed bill early in the next session, the Manhattan DA says. Let's urge them to do so.
November 12, 2019