The machine that pumps revenue into the city and reassurance back into its ruling class is slowly creeping back to life. “The slowdown is over in the sense that the numbers are starting to go back up again,” Commissioner Bratton told reporters on Friday, adding that he expects our court system to be clogged with turnstile jumpers and open container tickets "by early next week." To ensure the return to normalcy, NYPD leaders are preventing any officer from taking vacation leave or lunch breaks until low-level enforcement increases.
The Post reports that any officer who doesn't write tickets is also subject to transfer.
“Everyone here is under orders — no time off” during the summons catch-up blitz, said one cop at the 105th Precinct in Queens.
“And the majority of [new] summonses written aren’t protecting the public in any way.
The lieutenant ordered sector cars from throughout the precinct to converge at Springfield Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue for a driver checkpoint, the officer said.
No one was to return to the precinct or even take a meal break until two summonses were logged, the officer said.
“To have all the manpower utilized for the sole purpose of writing summonses is a very dangerous way to utilize manpower,” he said. “This is not what we’re out here for.”
So much for Broken Windows as "a highly discretionary police activity."
If you become a statistic in the NYPD's game of catch up, let us know.
