Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ray Kelly

Ignored by NYPD, Crash Victim Launches Effort to Hold AIS Accountable

By Stephen Miller | Sep 6, 2012 | 21 Comments

Cassandra Faustini took a job as a bike messenger to help make ends meet. After getting rear-ended by a hit-and-run driver last year, she tried to report the crash to a police officer, who refused to take her statement. One year later, she’s joining other New Yorkers to demand reforms to the way NYPD and […]

Council Members Call on Ray Kelly to Reform NYPD Crash Investigations

By Ben Fried | Jul 25, 2012 | 7 Comments

Commissioner Ray Kelly and the New York City Police Department cannot continue to let thousands of serious injuries caused by dangerous driving go uninvestigated each year, said a group of City Council members, street safety advocates, and victims’ families on the steps of City Hall today. Council members are following up on a February hearing […]

Contrary to Ray Kelly, NYPD Doesn’t Investigate Serious Traffic Injuries

By Ben Fried | Jun 13, 2012 | 15 Comments

One day after Jacob Stevens filed suit against the NYPD for failing to properly investigate the crash that killed his wife, Clara Heyworth, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters that the department’s Accident Investigation Squad handles all crashes that result in serious injury. The claim does not withstand the slightest scrutiny. Here’s what Kelly said […]

Man Who Killed Sister Mary Celine Graham in NYPD Chase Pleads to Murder

By Brad Aaron | May 8, 2012 | 2 Comments

A man who plowed into a crowd of Harlem pedestrians while fleeing police, killing a nun, has pleaded guilty to murder. On the morning of June 22, 2010, police investigating a string of gunpoint robberies stopped a minivan occupied by Dyson Williams and William Robbins near W. 142nd Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, according to a […]

Waiting for Raymond: When Will NYPD Address Its Traffic Safety Failures?

By Ben Fried | Apr 6, 2012 | 10 Comments

It should be good news that, on Ray Kelly’s orders, NYPD is going to start tracking bike-ped crashes. There’s a scarcity of information on the subject, and while the best available data indicates that the number of pedestrian injuries involving cyclists is dropping, the quality could be much better. Collecting information on these crashes with […]

In Lefevre Case, NYPD Press Statements Don’t Match NYPD Crash Report

By Brad Aaron | Dec 1, 2011 | 13 Comments

Speaking at yesterday’s Transportation Alternatives rally at 1 Police Plaza, Erika Lefevre pointed to inconsistencies between initial accounts of the hit-and-run collision that killed her son Mathieu and the version offered by the crash report, which her family obtained only after weeks of NYPD stonewalling. The case of Mathieu Lefevre is only the latest in […]

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