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Another Sammy Sussman exclusive: Looking at the NYPD’s own numbers, our law enforcement reporter uncovered that the city’s elite crash investigation unit — the Collsion Investigation Squad — is doing even fewer cases than last year, which itself was down 21 percent. Meanwhile in Chicago, the Windy City’s version of the CIS investigates thousands of crashes per year compared to our 250 or so.
What’s going on? That’s what Sussman wanted to know.
President Trump sort of inadvertently made an argument for banning horse carriages from Central Park on Thursday when he critiicized the City Council’s 40-7-2 vote to end the Central Park horse carriage industry with an ill-conceived analogy to cars.
The city’s much-anticipated program to require speed-limiting devices inside the cars of repeatedly reckless drivers will launch next year, though questions remain.