If you're driving in New York City, well, thank you for contributing to our municipal budget! License plate readers will assure that you pay $9 in congestion fees below 60th Street in Manhattan, and just wait till you see how expensive it is to actually park your vehicle!
What if you're feeling a little mischievous? In the mood for some shoplifting, vandalism, or other nonviolent crime? That's fine, really, but only if you drive away far above the posted speed limit.
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Jessica Tisch, the new NYC Police Commissioner, announced her first truly regrettable decision yesterday: the NYPD will not pursue getaway vehicles unless the perpetrators were involved in violent crimes.
We recently graded Tisch's performance and gave her an A-/B+. Perhaps we spoke too soon.
As reported in the New York Times, Tisch met with Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), a research group in Washington. PERF is an unelected, woke, third party "national membership organization" that describes its mission as "[having] fostered debate, research and an openness to challenging traditional police practices."
The NYPD data show surprisingly nifty and easily-remembered data regarding high speed pursuit:
Last year, the police engaged in 2,278 vehicle pursuits, according to department figures. A quarter led to a collision, property damage or physical harm, the police said. Sixty-seven percent of the chases occurred after an officer pursued a driver who fled a car stop. Many of those chases would not have been allowed under the new policy, the police said.
Exactly 25% led to collisions? Exactly ⅔ of chases were from a driver fleeing a stop? Statistics are so cool.
Motorbike rider crashes during a High Speed Police chase before getting Tackled and Arrested by the NYPD... pic.twitter.com/s6qZ9mOjKn
— Southland Post (@SouthlandPost) June 13, 2023
--We'll have no more of this style of justice, thank you very much!
Among the glowing contributions PERF has made to the policing community since its founding in 1976:
PERF also has reported on police leaders’ approach to immigration issues[10] and has researched police programs to welcome refugees to American communities.[11][12] Another area of focus has been reducing gender bias in the police response to sexual assault and domestic violence and expanding the FBI’s definition of rape to more accurately report levels of crime.[13][14][15]
Thank goodness, because every New Yorker we speak to about crime is deeply concerned with how best to welcome the slovenly, aggressive "refugees" teeming in our midst, and "gender bias" is of paramount concern.
While that's good, we can do better.
We sincerely hope that Commish Tisch spends some more taxpayer money on helping police avoid misgendering violent trans suspects. We'd all sleep better at night knowing that hulking, angry gender dysphorics were apprehended (or not, if speeding!) while using xir/their preferred pronouns.
