Tag: Vehicle and Traffic Enforcement

Traffic Tickets Issued in New York State

Traffic Tickets Issued: Four Year Window

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.

Read more HERE

This is the direct link to the data HERE

Safe Roads for All – Evidence-Based Strategies for Keeping Our Roadways Safe

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

Why Police Traffic Stops Are Dangerous and Ineffective | American Civil Liberties Union

Millions of drivers are pulled over every year for minor violations like broken taillights or tinted windows. Data shows these stops rarely make roads safer, and instead lead to racial disparities, violence, and loss of trust in police.
— Read on www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/why-police-traffic-stops-are-dangerous-and-ineffective

Hennepin County Attorney’s Office introduces new strategy, comment period on prosecutions stemming from non-public safety traffic stops | Hennepin County

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office unveiled a new strategy on its prosecutions of cases emanating from a non-public safety traffic stop, also known as a “pretext” stop.

Read the entire Non-Public Safety Traffic Stop Policy here.

The Non-Public Safety Traffic Stop Policy is scheduled to be implemented on October 15, 2025, after a period to allow feedback from system and community partners
— Read on www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/2025/september/nps-traffic-stop-policy

Hennepin County chiefs, sheriff speak out against new policy on low-level traffic stops – KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News

Law enforcement heads are speaking out in opposition to a new policy from Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty to not prosecute felonies that arise from low-level traffic stops.
— Read on kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/law-enforcement-speak-out-on-new-hennepin-county-policy-on-low-level-traffic-stops/

Vital City | Safe Only at Certain Speeds

Not since the 1980s has New York been so roiled by bicycles. The offending element then was unruly bicycle messengers slicing through Manhattan gridlock with contracts, renderings and other valuable bits of commerce and culture. Today’s controversy is more diffuse. It encompasses a new industry (food deliveries mediated by rapacious app companies); a new class of workers (immigrant deliveristas, whose economic precarity is now compounded by Trump’s crackdown on undocumented workers); and a new technology (the e-bike) that lets any rider hit cruising speeds of 20 or even 25 miles per hour.

— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/safe-only-at-certain-speeds