It’s a tyranny of the cranks.
The supposedly “data-driven” NYPD admitted for the first time on Tuesday that its new criminal summons crackdown against cyclists is not a response to hard data, but by complaints at community meetings — a revelation that came as city lawmakers stepped up their rhetoric against the escalated enforcement policy.
In the lead up to the new policy last month, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch had said her agency had “done a good, hard look at the data — where we’re seeing the most complaints, where we’re seeing the most collisions, where we’re seeing the most injuries.”…