Abreu questions NYPD on camera enforcement and timing of summons drop
Abreu asks whether lower enforcement is due to increased camera enforcement. Rivera calls it a combination of factors, and Abreu notes moving summonses dropped in 2020 before cameras were widely used. Flynn adds that enforcement is up for pedestrian-injury-related violations like failure to yield.
So is the suggestion that there's lower enforcement because of increased camera enforcement, for example?
It's a combination.
All right.
This is surprising to hear because...
While enforcement cameras like red light and speed cameras have slowly come online for over the past few years, the moving summonses quickly dropped in 2020 and then plateaued.
How do you explain this timing difference between when summons dropped and when cameras became more widely used?
So, again, it's not just the cameras.
It's a combination of things.
We just had to address these changes as we saw the traffic landscape change.
So with...
Yeah, Chair, I think one additional aspect I would highlight is that when we're looking at moving violations in our Vision Zero summons is that our most responsible for injuries, especially for pedestrian injuries, we're seeing enforcement up there.
We're targeting enforcement there.
So things like disobeying traffic signs, street signs were up almost 13 percent for improper turns up 8.6 percent for failure to yield the right of way to pedestrians.
An extremely important aspect for pedestrian safety.
We're up 4.4 percent.