""A lot of the people who are really being targeted by this are immigrant delivery workers for whom missing a day of work ... means losing money that they're using to feed their families. It puts them in the criminal justice system that can make them vulnerable to being deported. People have this blindness to vehicular crime and vehicular violation because they're used to it.""
"It's the latest in an ongoing New York battle over who gets to complain about the city's many problems - and who gets to identify what those problems even are. It all started last spring, when NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch ordered cops to slap cyclists with criminal summonses for moving violations that would result in a regular ticket for car drivers. The move forced members of the largely immigrant delivery workforce into the criminal justice system, and potentially threatened individuals' applications for asylum."
A Bushwick community board voted to call out the NYPD's ongoing criminal summons policy for cyclists after six months of deliberation. The board passed a resolution in December criticizing the policy for imposing criminal penalties on cyclists for moving violations that would yield only regular fines for drivers. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch's spring directive led officers to issue criminal summonses to cyclists, pushing many largely immigrant delivery workers into the criminal justice system and risking asylum applications. The resolution stated the policy diverts attention from more serious public safety concerns. The board chairman attempted to table the resolution and later sought to discard it on procedural grounds while criticizing supporters as newcomers.
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