Source: Official data on crashmapper.org
The really crazy thing is that this is just reported car crashes. The NYPD has largely stopped responding to crashes without injuries so the real number is probably higher.
You guys see New York City?? Mine only shows car crashes :(
A bus once hit our car while my spouse was driving, tore the front bumper off. NYPD took 2 hours to show up, refused to do any kind of report- said they only do a report when someone damages a bus, not the other way around. Took a year to get the city to pay for less than half of the damage.
NYPD doesn’t even bother to show up for car accidents that don’t involve a serious injury… on one hand it’s super frustrating but on the other they probably have bigger things to worry about
Those cops broke city policy, probably in order to comply with unofficial precinct policy. Giuliani instituted a city-wide crime statistics system in 1994 called CompStat with the stated goal of making crime statistics public and accountable, but the real purpose is allowing police the final and only say over what crimes do or don’t make it into official records so that they can support any crime narrative they’d like (Or just be selectively lazy and get away with it).
The NYPD is very poor (arguably net negative) value for the money spent
The NYPD budget is over $6,000,000,000. The same as the military spending of entire countries. They don’t have bigger things to worry about, they have bigger toys to buy.
The NYPD own two cargo planes. The cost of those alone could have been used to tackle accident prone areas or increase public transit.
“I have my own army in the NYPD”
-Michael Bloomberg
Cops aren’t really there for traffic accidents.
At least in my state they don’t determine who is liable, they can only gather statements after the fact.
They will help control traffic and likely yell at you for not moving your car off the road if it’s drivable.
Oh and they’ll write a ticket.
bigger things to worry about
Somewhere in the city there’s a black man who isn’t being harassed.
