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NYC: Six Months of Vision Zero Traffic Enforcement

Friday, August 1st, 2014
Image 1: Map of the most improved and least improved precincts in each Borough Command for speeding summonses, January to June 2013 versus 2014.

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Despite two decades of steady declines,traffic fatalities remain an epidemic in New York City. More people are killed in traffic than are murdered by guns;traffic crashes are the foremost cause of preventable death for New York City children and, after falls,the primary cause of injury-related death for older New Yorkers.

In February 2014, Mayor Bill de Blasio launched a Vision Zero initiative –with the goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries in New York City by 2024 –which the New York Police Department embraced wholeheartedly, instructing all precinct commanders to increase enforcement of the most dangerous traffic violations.Increased enforcement remains a central element to achieving Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero goal.

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The Enforcement Gap: How the NYPD Ignores What’s Killing New Yorkers

Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
In order to reduce traffic deaths and injuries, the Police Department must increase enforcement of the most dangerous traffic violations, in particular speeding and failure to yield, as opposed to those violations which do not endanger public safety, such as defective headlights and excessive window tint.

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THE NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT’S (NYPD) STATED GOAL IN THE MAYOR’S MANAGEMENT REPORT IS TO “REDUCE THE INCIDENTS OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, INJURIES AND FATALITIES.” This is a just and admirable aim, yet the NYPD is not doing everything it can to achieve it because the department ignores its own traffic safety data and chooses not to enforce the traffic violations that are the most harmful to New Yorkers. This is the enforcement gap.

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