Gentile wants mayor to hire 200 cops to catch speeders
Two hundred cops would be flooding the city streets for the sole purpose of catching drivers who speed, under a plan put forth by Councilman Vincent Gentile.
Acting in response to a spate of hit-run crashes and other accident in his council district and elsewhere in the city, Gentile (D-Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights-Bensonhurst) called on Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York City Police Department to immediately hire 200 additional police officers for speed enforcement. The cops would also be assigned to lookout for drunk drivers and other types of reckless motorists.
Speeding is a leading cause of fatal car crashes, according to Gentile, who said speeding kills more New York City residents than alcohol, drug, and cell-phone involved crashes combined.