It's been two months since new-old New York Police Department
Commissioner Bill Bratton was sworn in, and much of the press coverage
so far has focused on the NYPD's renewed interest in jaywalkers as part
of Vision Zero, the initiative to end traffic deaths. But as the New York Times
reports, much of that has focused on walkers, not drivers: jaywalking
tickets are up eightfold over the same time last year. That's been sort
of a mixed bag from a public relations perspective, with the nadir
being 84-year-old Kang Chun Wong, who says he was beaten up by police officers trying to give him a citation.
As it turns out, Bratton's sick of talking about jaywalking and most
especially Wong's alleged beating, which he calls "an isolated event."
Instead, he'd rather discuss the other big plans he's got to make your
city even safer, starting in the subway. Capital New York points us to a delightful interview Bratton did with WPIX yesterday morning
where he laid out his plans to tackle the biggest menaces of the
underground: sleepers, panhandlers, churro-sellers, and the "It's
showtime!" dudes.
Read on...
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