The NYPD has admitted in court that cops wrote hundreds of criminal summonses to “reckless” cyclists in the three months after Mayor Mamdani ended his predecessor’s criminal crackdown against some scofflaw e-bikers — a revelation that undermines an already specious lawsuit seeking to reinstate the Adams-era crackdown.
NYPD Deputy Chief Sylvester Ge testified in writing in a Staten Island case that NYPD officers wrote 257 criminal court summonses for “reckless” riding on “a bicycle, e-bike, or e-scooter” between March 31 and July 13.
Ge’s affidavit challenges the purpose of a lawsuit filed by city residents who argued that Mayor Mamdani’s decision to end the criminal summons blitz initiated by former Mayor Eric Adams made the city’s streets less safe for pedestrians and disabled New Yorkers…