Abreu challenges NYPD data on traffic law violations

So you're talking about following the data, right?

Is your data showing that folks are not flouting traffic laws as much as they used to?

Well, I think what...

Please answer the question.

Thank you.

Thanks, Chair.

Our data, our enforcement data is what you've seen and what's in front of you.

Our officers are writing tickets where they see violations, when they see movement.

They're not seeing violations?

They're seeing violations in the right levels.

At the same levels of pre-pandemic levels or more?

Well, as I said, we...

I'm looking, I'm just talking about the data here.

What are you, I want to know what the data is telling you now.

The data is telling us that we're up, we're up over 40% since 2021 and we're increasing every year.

But you're not committing to doing pre-pandemic numbers.

So I understand you're going up since every 2021, but there's no commitment to get pre-pandemic levels.

We don't think that writing tickets for tickets'sake, it's not the number of tickets, it's the quality of enforcement.

Do you think that with the current data that your officers are seeing, it would warrant 700,000 tickets a year?

Well, I'll let Chief Obey speak to what our officers see on the ground.

My expectation would be that, yes, that the data you're seeing on the ground would warrant more than 700,000 tickets a year.