Abreu questions NYPD on falling Vision Zero summonses

I'm now going to turn over to some questions on enforcement for NYPD and DLT.

Overall, Vision Zero-related moving summonses issued by YPD have significantly fallen in recent years.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and fiscal years 2020,

2018 and 2019, NYPD routinely issued nearly 700,000 Vision Zero-related moving summonses annually.

However, according to data from the mayor's management reports, NYPD's summonses issuance has fallen below fiscal year 2019's level

every year since and is currently at just over 413,000 summonses.

At FY 2026, a decline of about 41% from pre-pandemic levels.

Why has NYPD enforcement remained substantially low pre-pandemic levels?

Is this attributed to staffing, deployment priorities, or a change in enforcement strategy?

Can we please?

I'll also get another mic.

Thanks very much, Chair.

So, of course, the pandemic had enormous disruptions in a variety of areas, and in our traffic enforcement, that was no exception.

And that did result in decreases both in 2020 and then into a low.

Can you please get closer to the mic, please?

Thank you.

I'm sorry, Chair.

So the pandemic did create a number of disruptions that led to decreases across a lot of areas, and one of those areas was traffic enforcement, and that led to a low in 2021.

Since that time, we've been issuing more summonses every year.

We're up 40%, over 40% from that low in 2021.

The other thing I think I would note there is that we're not writing tickets just to write tickets.

We're focusing our enforcement where it's going to have the most impact, the most material benefits.

And we're seeing those increases year over year.

And I think the results that we're seeing with fatalities being down reflect the quality of that work, the quality of the work being done.