It’s not a slowdown — it’s a virtual work stoppage.
NYPD traffic tickets and summonses for minor offenses have dropped off by a staggering 94 percent following the execution of two cops — as officers feel betrayed by the mayor and fear for their safety, The Post has learned.
The dramatic drop comes as Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio plan to hold an emergency summit on Tuesday with the heads of the five police unions to try to close the widening rift between cops and the administration.
The unprecedented meeting is being held at the new Police Academy in Queens at 2 p.m., sources said.
Angry union leaders have ordered drastic measures for their members since the Dec. 20 assassination of two NYPD cops in a patrol car, including that two units respond to every call.
It has helped contribute to a nose dive in low-level policing, with overall arrests down 66 percent for the week starting Dec. 22 compared with the same period in 2013, stats show.
Citations for traffic violations fell by 94 percent, from 10,069 to 587, during that time frame.
Summonses for low-level offenses like public drinking and urination also plunged 94 percent — from 4,831 to 300.
Even parking violations are way down, dropping by 92 percent, from 14,699 to 1,241.
Drug arrests by cops assigned to the NYPD’s Organized Crime Control Bureau — which are part of the overall number — dropped by 84 percent, from 382 to 63.
More at the NY Post
This will cost the City LOTS of money.
And soon.
Traffic tickets down 94 percent, from 10,069 to 587.
Figure each ticket averages $50.
From a bit over half a million dollars to near $30,000.
That’s going to leave a mark!
Parking violations are down, dropping by 92 percent, from 14,699 to 1,241.
Let’s average those at $30.
From $441,000 down to only $37,000.
Huge drop in income.
NYCity is in trouble.
What will deBlasio do?
@Nanny:
Blame the media?
Nanny, I think your numbers are low. I received a speeding ticket in early 2013 in a mid-sized Ohio town and it cost me $170.00. I would think costs in New York would be higher. At $170 per ticket it’s $1,711.730 vs $99,790 or $1,611,940 less!
well NYC is not a small town. The city budget is 75 billion
so lets do the math and see if a million is at all significant
75,000,000,000
– 1,000,000
______________
69,999,000,000
incidentally the average salary for a cop in NYC after 5 years is over 90,000$ thanks to an extremely strong union AND surprise their contract is now in negotiation with double surprise !! DeBlasio. How much more do you think the cops are asking for ? And if the union is organizing an illegal work stoppage should officers be disciplined or fired?
And those figures on tickets seem a bit off 10000 tickets a day is 30000 a month is 3,600,000 a year that is a bout 1 a year per driver (we have an excellent public transportation system here) in 2 years we would all lose our driving licenses to points
Now what about cost SAVINGS I do know the radical right likes government to save money
well the cost for misdemeanor arrests each day in NYC is about 1 million http://www.newsweek.com/embargoeddec-156-pm-policing-costs-291948
As for the total number of traffic citations the best I can come up with is this: in the first 6 months of 2014 the NYPD issued a combined total of 83000 tickets or 16000 per month or 500 per day
From mid-January to mid-May, when just five speed cams were working, they issued more than 41,000 tickets, according to the city’s open data portal. Through the end of June, NYPD issued a combined 83,066 summonses for speeding, red light-running (26,749), and driving in a bus lane (1,463).
http://www.streetsblog.org/2014/07/16/20-speed-cams-issued-almost-as-many-tickets-in-june-as-nypd-has-all-year/
Tickets issuing always drops around the holidays. Cops know that the fines may cost a kid a present from his parent even CURT IS SOFT HEARTED AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR As far as whether public safety should be endangered by police in a response to their dislike of the mayor or to boost their contract position maybe Curt will tell us if he considers that to be professionally to be good conduct
@john: I wonder what they need all those cops for?
@john: $90,000 salary . . . considering you might get executed whilst sitting in your patrol car, I’d say they’re underpaid.
Quite the statistical analyst, you are. Trained at Google U, I assume.
Tool.
DeBlasio just showed police he will NEVER apologize to them.
He re-upped the term of a judge who keeps letting felony arrestees back on the streets with no bail!
Read up on her, she is Laura Johnson.
http://nypost.com/2014/12/25/judge-frees-another-cop-hater-who-punched-officer/
@Nathan Blue: Is $90K a year really all that much in a city where half your wages got to city,state and federal taxes?
You’re right, I was low-balling it too much.
$170 is about average.
Another good point, although an ”apples VS oranges” comparison.
See, that million is for a couple days’ of slowdown!
Your budget is for a YEAR!
So, almost $2 million a day on moving citations LOST plus, maybe, $1/4 million in parking citations a day, times that by 360 is at least $821 MILLION lost revenue to NYCity/year.
Add to that deBalsio’s losses of tax revenues for all the ”loosies” now being sold without fear of arrests and that’s another $800 Million on top of the previously $900 million lost to smuggling tobacco that caused the ”loosie” crack-down in the 1st place.
So, $4.5 BILLION lost income just from this – if it all continues for a year.
And ”loosies” are only a small part of the changes from quitting the ”broken windows” style of law enforcement.
Add in the rest and it is immense losses of revenues NYCity is looking at.