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NYPD's traffic enforcement strategies and Vision Zero initiative
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Chief Olufunmilola 'Lola' Obe explains the NYPD's approach to traffic enforcement and the Vision Zero initiative, focusing on data-driven strategies and targeted corridors.
- Describes the identification of high-risk corridors based on killed or severely injured (KSI) data
- Emphasizes the 'three E's' approach: education, enforcement, and engineering
- Highlights promising results in 2024, including reduced collisions and increased enforcement along targeted corridors
Olufunmilola "Lola" Obe
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Good morning.
0:13:30
So I just wanted to speak to just address one of the things you had mentioned about fairness and also just speaking to what we see, and then I'll touch on the fatalities.
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So foundationally for us at the Transportation Bureau for traffic stat, this is where we start and this is where we are in 2025 as an organization.
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In February of twenty twenty four, working with our partners in the DOT, we identified along with the DOT nine traffic corridors in 33 precincts.
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The identification at that time was based on a look back window of four years of KSI.
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KSI being killed is the corridors where people were killed or severely injured.
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In twenty twenty five, January twenty twenty five, we maintained the same nine corridors and added six additional for a total of 15 citywide corridors.
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This time, this 15 corridors run along 50 of our 78 patrol precincts with an addition of 17 patrol precincts to the to the original 33 identified in 2024.
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For precincts that are outside of these identified corridors, their task is clear, identify high visibility corridors with the highest KSI's, again, where people are killed or seriously injured, and that's where there's three e's.
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We emphasize three e's during traffic stat or just in business, it's all about the three e's, and the three e's are education, enforcement, and engineering, partnering with the DOT.
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I believe that these corridors and the results on these corridors have been very promising.
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In 2024 alone, along nine citywide corridors, collisions were down.
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Total collisions down twelve percent, total injuries down sixteen percent, we were down seven fatalities in 2024, again along those nine corridors.
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Enforcement was up.
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Total movers, total movers along those nine corridors were up about 88%.
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Vision zero movers that we focus on were up along those nine corridors.
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Same thing that we see in 2025.
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'20 '20 '5 year to date one one through 04/20 along 15 citywide corridors, total collisions are down.
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Total total injuries are down.
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Fatalities unfortunately eight versus three are up by five, And I just want to reference something we've seen in the media in the confines of the 61 Precinct in Brooklyn South, and this incident this collision happened on Saturday, March 29, where a woman and her three kids crossing the street were killed by a speeding driver in Ocean Parkway.
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1 of the 15 identified corridors, mom and two kids were killed living in a third child in critical condition.
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These are the types of drivers that we target when we focus on vision zero enforcement, such as speeding, which is what we see, and fail to yield enforcement along those corridors.
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So I just wanted to just touch on that.
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That's what we we speak to foundationally.
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For fatalities in general, when you look at 2025, what we see so far, total fatalities fifty two versus seventy nine.