The NYPD can’t find the time, resources or compassion to adequately investigate the traffic crashes that kill and seriously injure more than 4,000 people in the city each year.
In a rare oversight hearing on the NYPD's treatment of traffic accidents involving bicyclists and pedestrians, Council members, advocates, and the relatives of slain cyclists expressed anger and frustration at what they say is the NYPD's reluctance to charge the drivers responsible.