Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about District Attorneys

Does Cy Vance Use His Surveillance Camera Bank to Fight Traffic Violence?

By Brad Aaron | Dec 12, 2014 | 10 Comments

In New York City, if you hit someone with a motor vehicle and keep driving, odds are you will get away with it. NYPD made arrests in just 25 percent of fatal hit-and-run crashes in 2012, according to Transportation Alternatives. And in many cases where the driver is eventually identified, a simple “I didn’t see […]

Driver With Revoked License Not Charged for Killing East Flatbush Senior

By Brad Aaron | Dec 11, 2014 | 23 Comments

A driver with a revoked license killed a senior in Brooklyn Tuesday. As of Wednesday he was not charged by NYPD or District Attorney Ken Thompson for causing a death. The crash occurred in the 67th Precinct, where motorists have killed at least three pedestrians this year, and at least seven pedestrians since January 2013. […]

Cy Vance Files Homicide Charge in Lower East Side Pedestrian Death

By Brad Aaron | Dec 8, 2014 | 7 Comments

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance filed a homicide charge against a driver accused of killing a pedestrian on the Lower East Side in November. On the evening of November 24, the driver of a BMW sedan hit 57-year-old Robert Perry on the Bowery near Rivington Street, and kept driving until he hit a fire hydrant […]

Dana Lerner: Cy Vance Botched the Token Case Against My Son’s Killer

By Brad Aaron | Dec 5, 2014 | 30 Comments

The cab driver who killed Cooper Stock is scheduled to be back in court in two months, thanks to what Stock’s mother Dana Lerner termed “inept” handling of the case by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s office. Meanwhile, Koffi Komlani’s apparent defense — that weather was to blame for the crash — is the same […]

Families for Safe Streets to Call on DAs to Prosecute Reckless Drivers

By Brad Aaron | Dec 4, 2014 | 5 Comments

Update: Sunday’s event has been postponed, according to a TA press release, “in solidarity with those protesting the grand jury decision not to indict in the Eric Garner case.” The cab driver who killed 9-year-old Cooper Stock is scheduled to appear in court Friday. Koffi Komlani was issued two traffic tickets, but unlike most drivers […]

For Traffic Violence Victims, Cy Vance’s “Moneyball” Still a Field of Dreams

By Brad Aaron | Dec 4, 2014 | 16 Comments

You won’t find much discussion of traffic violence in Chip Brown’s 5,500-word encomium to Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, published Wednesday by the New York Times Magazine. Other than noting that dismissals of drunk driving cases are down, according to Vance’s office, Brown doesn’t broach the subject at all. To rein in gang violence and other street-level […]

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