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Enforcement efforts in specific corridors, including Ocean Parkway
0:18:25
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Chief Obe details the NYPD's enforcement efforts in specific high-risk corridors, with a focus on Ocean Parkway following a recent fatal incident.
- Emphasizes increased enforcement of speeding and failure to yield violations
- Provides specific statistics on summonses issued, arrests made, and vehicles towed in the Ocean Parkway initiative
- Reports overall increases in various types of traffic-related summonses and arrests citywide
Olufunmilola "Lola" Obe
0:18:25
So we know that two contributing factors drive fatalities and that's again speeding and failure to yield.
0:18:31
Speed and enforcement to match that is up 20%.
0:18:35
Year to date we have thirty four thousand three zero six versus twenty eight thousand six hundred forty six from last year, and some of the criticism that we get is, oh, police department we're reactive to when things happen, what I just mentioned about Ocean Ocean Parkway.
0:18:52
1 of the things we do is we stay there because it is one of our 15 corridors, and one of the things we've done so far is to have an initiative on Ocean Parkway.
0:19:00
So since 03/31 through 04/25, we've written on that corridor alone 3,972 parking summonses, 3,272 moving summonses, and again focusing on the right types of summonses.
0:19:14
We have 740 for speeding, 62 for felty yield, a 36 for red lights, 76 vehicles were towed, seven cease summonses were issued mostly for reckless driving and operating non motorized scooters and three others, 17 arrests of which five were DWI, nine vehicles were seized, and 37 truck summonses were issued just for that initiative for Ocean Parkway.
0:19:43
But overall for felty yield summonses, again, because we see that this is a contributing factor for our pedestrians, we're up fourteen thousand three zero two felony yield summonses versus eleven three twenty six from last year.
0:19:56
We also focused and have trained our officers on writing old summonses, and that's admin code 19Dash190, and that's for felony yield right away.
0:20:04
Year to date, we have ten seventy one summonses that have been issued and two arrests made.
0:20:08
Hazardous violations are up 10%.
0:20:11
Vision zero, movers are up 17%.
0:20:14
Moving violations are up 5.3%.
0:20:16
DEE arrest is also up 18%, twelve twenty five versus ten forty two.
0:20:20
VTL five eleven arrest for suspended licenses up 24%, ninety two thirty seven versus seventy four fifty three.
0:20:27
So it's not just all about enforcement.
0:20:29
We also focus on education too, And when I say education, I'm going to highlight one particular precinct in the in Queens, the 109 Precinct.