Council Member Brooks-Powers asks NYPD about Intro 787 reporting

Majority whip, Hanks.

Sorry, if Petey could just answer their question.

Please.

So there are a number of questions there for us.

I'm going to try to answer some of them, and then I think Chief Obey is going to take the question about the factors that go into deployment decisions.

With regard to interest 787,

totally understand what's behind the bill and understand that you're looking for data about outcomes, the different types of enforcement being taken, where it's happening.

Understand that and no objection to that and happy to work with you on a bill that gets you what you need.

You know, the one place where we do want to have a conversation with you, Council Member, in your office is, I'm not sure if this is intentional, but there's a way to read the bill that would seem potentially to require imposed disclosure obligations or reporting obligations, you know.

Like every time Chief Obey is making a decision about the deployment of resources and explaining what's going into that.

And I'm not sure that's what's intended, but to the extent, you know, we would have to report every time Chief Obey is making deployment decisions and what's behind that.

I mean, that happens every day, right?

Sometimes it happens multiple times a day.

That would be very challenging.

It would.

And then in particular, to the extent the bill would require us to explain

potentially every shift in deployment and what's behind that, that'd be very challenging.

It's not typically what we see in reporting bills, but I do wanna emphasize that in terms of where we're doing enforcement, the types of enforcement, how that looks geographically, no objection to

getting you that information in the form that will make it most useful to you and to other city agencies and to the public.

And we do share data with DOT all the time.

Just as to your question regarding kind of how the department thinks about deployment in this space, I want to turn it over to Chief Obey.

Okay.

Good afternoon.

I just want to put it simply by saying we go where the data is.

But one of the things that we do is we focus on high visibility to corridors.

I mentioned that earlier, and I'll go through it very quickly.

Fifteen corridors identified citywide.

Again, the decision behind the identification process for those corridors were really based on spikes in fatalities, collisions, and injuries where we saw.

Spikes in those criteria.

One such corridor I mentioned prior to getting here was Ocean Parkway last year.

One of the things we do, we see a horrible incident like that, horrific collision, three fatalities.

We get together with the DOT, throw everything we have at it.

resources, all of that, right?

Again, that corridor covers three commands, so that's how we, but essentially all 15 corridors touch the entire city.

So,

We threw everything at it.

Year-to-date 26, there's zero fatalities.

Year-to-date 26, total collisions are down along the Ocean Parkway Corridor.

Total injuries are down, moving violations are up, and vision zero movers are up.

When you look broadly along all 15 corridors, there's a decrease in fatalities.

That's always our number one goal is to drive down the numbers.

Along those 15 corridors, it's 11 versus 17.

We're down six fatalities.

Again, every life lost is one too many.

There's a decrease in injuries, decrease in total collisions.

Vision zero movers overall for all 15 corridors year to date, 74,272 vision zero movers were issued along the 15 corridors.

So this is the type of attention we put along, you know.

So that's one strategy.

Another thing also is ghost plate operations.

We kind of hit that two ways very quickly.

We work with law enforcement partners, PAPD, MTA, just to name a few, TBTA, PAPD.

We have had this year, year to date, 26, 29 joint operations.

And again, ghost plates are cars that display fraudulent, expired, mismatched, no plates, all of that, that world.

418 arrests, 17,000 plus summonses issued, 1,817 vehicles seized, and 63 motorcycle and moped seizures.

And then also locally responding to community complaints, we'll see a parked vehicle that is a ghost plate.

This is one.

where our traffic agents come in, and for obstructed plate parking summonses.

They've written 166, 236 summonses.

This is, again, by our TEAs.

When it's on the street by uniformed personnel, this is obstructed plate moving summonses, 20,719.

Arrest made for temp tag fraudulent arrest, 1,833 year to date.

So we have that just broken down.

I also wanted to mention a third thing that we see.

Which helps us move from spot to spot.

Again, just looking at spikes.

One thing we've seen recently is two things.

Lack of seatbelt compliance, when you see that, it means occupants have been ejected out of vehicles.

We'll attack that by PSAs, reaching out to our partners, New York City, New York State DOT.

So when you look on the highways, you'll see buckle up and that type of...

Information on there.

But we have short-term initiatives to address that along certain corridors.

So speed is one of the things that we'll do in this particular case after a rash of a tragic incident, speed and seatbelts.

As it pertains to the micromobility world, we mentioned this earlier, point of sale initiatives.

We started that in 2021.

We've continued this year.

I would say great success.

The work has not ended.

We're identifying additional retailers, and we'll continue to do so.

Again, our enforcement, we have the enforcement numbers.

We do target a number of violations, the worst of the worst, and that's reckless.

Driving, disobey steady red light, disobey traffic control device, speeding, because we know speed kills.

Thank you, Chief Obey.

I see you have a very responsive answer there.

I appreciate it.