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Efforts to address illegal scooters in Queens
5:05:06
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DA Katz outlines her office's initiatives to remove unlicensed, unregistered, and uninsured scooters from the streets of Queens, highlighting the safety concerns associated with these vehicles.
- Describes regular operations conducted in collaboration with the NYPD to remove illegal scooters
- Reports that approximately 1,000 scooters have been taken off the streets
- Emphasizes the importance of accountability for scooter users and the dangers posed by unidentifiable vehicles
Melinda Katz
5:05:06
We are getting the scooters off the street in Queens County, just so you know.
5:05:10
It's very difficult sometimes to chase the scooters down.
5:05:13
So we go out, I don't know, once a week, every other week, maybe at least two or three times a month.
5:05:19
With the NYPD we've taken about a thousand scooters off the street that are unlicensed, unregistered and uninsured.
5:05:26
Very important that we have some sort of accountability on these scooters that you can't identify.
5:05:33
And think about that danger when you have that.
5:05:35
So we work on that as well as we go around the borough, making sure that we're keeping people safe, not just from prosecution, but also thinking of ways outside the box to do that.