Author: Liam Quigley
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NYPD pursues speedy justice as drag racers, daredevils remain a problem on NYC streets, highways
It’s a cat and mouse game — but the mice drive too fast and recklessly and are not always held accountable, even when cops nab them. With Rocco Parascandola.
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‘Eager Beaver’: For Highest-Paid NYC Correction Captain, There’s Plenty of Work Outside Rikers
Violence in NYC jails recently hit all-time record highs. Why is the Correction Department’s highest-paid captain moonlighting for the federal government?
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SPEED DEMON: PBA President Pat Lynch is Driven Around Really Fast!
Last week after two police officers bravely ran into a burning building in The Bronx to save an elderly woman, police union head Patrick Lynch rushed to the scene. Perhaps too quickly: the 2021 Chevy Suburban in which Lynch was chauffeured has a staggering 29 school-zone speeding violations since 2016.
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Two-thirds of NYC school buses have speeding, red light camera tickets
Some New York City school bus drivers have a need for speed, racking up a total of thousands of traffic tickets for recklessly operating the big yellow vehicles that carry roughly 150,000 schoolkids every day. With Michael Elsen-Rooney and Clayton Guse.
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Dangerous drivers still on city streets despite thousands of speeding tickets
A months-long investigation led to a Nassau County address linked to the vehicle and a man who claims his employer paid all the tickets. It’s one of a limited number of cases where thousands of dollars in fines have proven ineffective at changing behavior and highlights a blindspot of the city’s Vision Zero initiative.
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In fight over trash zone system, Queens residents demand ‘waste equity’
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Garbage trucks registered with BIC run red lights at alarming rate: Analysis
Vehicles registered with the Business Integrity Commission have been caught speeding past schools and running red lights at an alarming rate, according to an amNewYork analysis of traffic camera violations.
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Autonomous cars hit the streets at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
A fleet of autonomous cars hit the pavement in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Tuesday, marking the first commercial deployment of self-driving cars in the Empire State.
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Staten Islanders are patrolling ICE hot spots to help protect immigrants
On a sweltering afternoon on Staten Island, César Vargas kept a close eye on the cars lining the street outside Richmond County Supreme Court. Vargas, a newly minted Army Reserve specialist and one of the first undocumented immigrants admitted to the New York State Bar, walked by an idling unmarked police car concealing a large tattooed…
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Hundreds of Cyclists Stage Mass ‘Die-In’ to Protest Growing Number of NYC Fatalities
Nearly 1,000 bike messengers, bike commuters, delivery cyclists, bike share riders, and teenagers on fixies had laid their bikes and bodies on the ground in a mass “die-in,” meant to bring attention to the steadily climbing rate of cyclists and pedestrians dying on New York City streets.