Council Member Hanks asks what the public can do to help enforcement

So one second.

So that would lead me to the follow-up is what do you need from the public?

What do you need from us to help?

Help us help you because

In Staten Island, we have those ATV four-wheelers that we now know that law enforcement will not give chase.

They will not try to accost any person riding these ATV four-wheelers.

But the public also doesn't really understand or know how to report these.

It's become a big trend where there'll be 20, 30 ATV or riders in a particular neighborhood will call NYPD.

NYPD will say, well, we can't give chase.

We have to kind of like figure out where they're going to park and then we can go after them after that.

So a few points.

First, I just want to, I mean, with regard to the vehicle pursuit policy, it is true that we tightened that up substantially.

There are, of course, times when we do give pursuit for felonies and certain types of misdemeanors.

But you are right that to the extent we're not talking about that class of crimes, you know, otherwise we're not going to be engaged in what can be very dangerous vehicle pursuit.

So in terms of ATV enforcement, this is something that's very important for the department.

For any ATV, you can't ride on the streets of New York City, right?

Period.

And as we were saying earlier, often those operations, and we do do targeted enforcement on ATVs, and we'll send teams out.

For example, if we know there are a number of ATVs that are parked somewhere, that's an opportunity.

As long as we're going to try to engage with people when the ATV is stationary.

So to the extent the concern you're expressing is that in your district, we're not being responsive in that regard.

We want to be responsive.

This is something that's actually very important.

And we collectively are happy to work with you in your office and identifying these issues and working with the commands there to be responsive.