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Data extracted from records of tickets on file with NYS DMV. The tickets were issued to motorists for violations of: NYS Vehicle & Traffic Law (VTL), Thruway Rules and Regulations, Tax Law, Transportation Law, Parks and Recreation Regulations, Local New York City Traffic Ordinances, and NYS Penal Law pertaining to the involvement of a motor vehicle in acts of assault, homicide, manslaughter and criminal negligence resulting in injury or death.
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Each year, more than 40,000 people are killed and more than 2 million injured in preventable car crashes. Despite a growing body of evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of common-sense infrastructural and road design measures, traffic safety strategies in this country have largely focused instead on individual enforcement through high-volume police stops and ticketing. The report finds that this approach fails to prevent injuries and deaths from car crashes and in fact puts people at risk of harmful encounters with police. Ticketing practices that prioritize revenue generation over road safety also trap millions of people in inescapable cycles of fines, fees, and debt.
See more here: https://www.aclu.org/documents/safe-roads-for-all
Get a .PDF of the report HERE
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A slew of NYPD officers recounted on Sunday horror stories from their careers in which they say they were falsely accused of sexual misconduct and, despite
— Read on www.amny.com/news/cops-recount-false-sexual-misconduct-allegations/
Sealing prior arrests may benefit lawbreakers in more ways than one.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/new-york-criminal-history-prior-arrests
This month, the Center for Policing Equity (CPE) published a new report, BART Fare Enforcement: Balancing Goals, Community Concerns, and Human Costs, in partnership with Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). The team received additional support from Stout, a global advisory firm specializing in corporate finance, accounting and transaction advisory, valuation, financial disputes, claims, and investigations. The report is a comprehensive assessment of BART’s approach to enforcing its fares, and CPE hopes to see the recommendations contained in this report adopted for implementation. Read on HERE
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NYPD oversight agency violated police officers’ rights by giving anti-police website false and baseless claims of sexual misconduct, racial profiling and perjury
Today, the New York City PBA filed a federal lawsuit against the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) after the agency facilitated the publication of hundreds of stigmatizing complaint records falsely alleging severe misconduct and criminal acts by police officers.In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the PBA challenges CCRB’s recent policy change to permit public disclosure of three categories of serious allegations – sexual misconduct, racial profiling and untruthful statement – without redaction, even though CCRB has determined that the allegations are false or lack evidence. The union argues that CCRB’s decision to release these records – which are now public and searchable on the anti-NYPD database 50-a.org along with the falsely accused police officers’ identifying information – is unconstitutional.
— Read on www.nycpba.org/press-release/nycpba-v-ccrb/
Today, following the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s release of its annual statistical report, the New York City PBA released its own 2025 Annual Report on CCRB. Using data provided directly by the agency, the report highlights CCRB’s continued pattern of unfairness and injustice, which is eroding officer rights and threatening public safety.
NYC PBA President Patrick Hendry said: “Every year, CCRB cherry-picks and distorts its data to create a false narrative about policing in New York City. Our report sets the record straight. With just one complaint for every 1,639 calls for service, and with the vast majority of complaints found to be false or unsubstantiated, New York City police officers are performing their job at the highest levels of professionalism. Yet every one of those false and frivolous complaints remains on a police officer’s public record, negatively impacting both their careers and life outside of work. If our city leaders don’t take action to correct the injustice at CCRB, it will continue to erode public safety by driving talented police officers away from the NYPD.”
— Read on www.nycpba.org/press-release/ccrb-report-2025/
Replacing police on some calls sounds promising, but evidence shows limits in safety, cost and real world implementation.
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/policing-alternative-response-cahoots/
In 2018, the California Legislature passed Senate Bill 1421, landmark legislation that made serious uses of force and officer misconduct available to the public through California Public Record Act (“CPRA”) requests. However, right before this new law could take effect, the City of Inglewood and the Inglewood Police Department destroyed decades of police use of force and misconduct records—forever shielding these records from public view.
Three years later, after the passage of follow-up legislation (Senate Bill 16) that expanded the categories of records that would be disclosable to the public, the Inglewood City Council once again authorized the destruction of decades of police use of force and misconduct records. This time, the records slated for destruction included those responsive to the ACLU of Southern California’s CPRA request for police misconduct and use of force records, as well as a pending CPRA request from Ms. Trisha Shanklin concerning the Inglewood Police Department’s killing of her sister, Ms. Kisha Michael. In response, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California filed suit and was granted a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining the City of Inglewood and Inglewood Police Department (“Defendants”) from destroying records responsive to the ACLU request during the pendency of litigation.
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