Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Traffic Justice

After Street Safety March, Ken Thompson Talks Tough on Traffic Justice

By Stephen Miller | Nov 20, 2013 | 11 Comments

After street safety demonstrators packed last night’s 88th Precinct community council meeting to demand action after the death of 9-year-old Lucian Merryweather on a Fort Greene sidewalk, elected officials spoke to the audience of well over 100 people. Brooklyn District Attorney-elect Ken Thompson, sitting quietly near the back, only spoke after an audience member asked […]

Bringing “Broken Windows” to Street Safety: Bratton Talks Traffic at Forum

By Stephen Miller | Nov 19, 2013 | 24 Comments

At a Transportation Alternatives forum this morning on reforming the agency’s approach to traffic enforcement, former NYPD commissioner (and current contender for his old job) Bill Bratton said street safety deserves more attention from the police. The former chief was followed by a panel discussion featuring one of the creators of the “broken windows” theory of […]

How the City Council Can Impose Tougher Penalties on Reckless Drivers

By Steve Vaccaro | Nov 19, 2013 | 66 Comments

The election of numerous safe streets candidates earlier this month, followed by the exoneration of road-raging cabbie Faysal Himon and the gut-wrenching parade of daily traffic deaths since, create the best opportunity in years to impose meaningful consequences for sober reckless driving. I have been told by numerous lawyers with state legislative experience that only […]

Public Still Doesn’t Know Why Cy Vance Failed to Charge in Sian Green Case

By Brad Aaron | Nov 18, 2013 | 28 Comments

Last Friday WNYC ran a piece in which Bronx vehicular crimes chief Joe McCormack explained why he thought Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance failed to file charges against the cab driver who drove onto a Midtown sidewalk and severed the leg of tourist Sian Green. The story offers valuable insight into the mindset of prosecutors, but […]

Vaccaro: Vance Didn’t Need to Prove “Intent” to Convict Driver in Green Case

By Brad Aaron | Nov 15, 2013 | 16 Comments

Cy Vance’s office does not discuss vehicular crimes cases, even after they are disposed or when no charges are filed. After declining to prosecute the cabbie who drove onto a Midtown sidewalk and severed the leg of Sian Green, the DA’s office issued a short statement, but the only insight into the prosecutors’ reasoning came […]

No Charges From Cy Vance for Cab Driver Who Maimed Tourist Sian Green

By Brad Aaron | Nov 14, 2013 | 76 Comments

The cab driver who hit a cyclist and drove onto a Midtown sidewalk, severing the leg of British tourist Sian Green, will not be charged with a crime by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance. Here is a statement from Joan Vollero, Vance’s deputy communications director, released to the media today: “Following a thorough, two-month-long investigation by […]

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