Abreu asks how NYPD prioritizes moving violation enforcement
Abreu asks how NYPD prioritizes enforcement of speeding and failure to yield. Flynn says DOT and NYPD collaborate using fatality, collision, and injury data. Abreu asks if more officers are needed; Flynn says more resources would help but current headcount does its best.
How does NYPD determine where to prioritize enforcement of speeding, failure to yield, and other dangerous moving violations?
We're looking, we work in collaboration with our partners at DOT to identify those areas where the risk is highest.
And so that's looking at the data.
As I said, we're looking at fatalities, we look at collisions, we look at injuries.
And using that universe of information, we collaborate with DOT to identify the areas where enforcement is the most important.
And do you need more officers to adequately enforce dangers?
Moving violations, I understand.
This past year, there was, you know, the request for 5,000 additional officers.
I'm asking because if you need more resources, we want to make sure you get them, especially as we're approaching budget season next year.
In a perfect world, we would want more officers, of course.
In a perfect world, unconstrained by resources, we would want everything that we could have.
But based on the number of officers we have now, based on our current headcount, we're absolutely certain we're able to do our best in terms of the enforcement we have.
And with an additional 5,000 officers, you think you'd be able to reach 700,000 summonses a year?
I mean, with an extra 10,000 officers, 20,000 officers, the more resources we have available, the more we're going to be able to do.
But we obviously understand that we don't live in a world where we can simply have whatever, you know, an unlimited number.
We live in a resource-constrained world.
But you would like more officers, is that right?
Of course.
Okay.
All right.