James Giovansanti — the NYPD cop who accrued 547 speeding and red-light tickets since early 2022 — earned a reputation as a deadly driver long before Streetsblog revealed him as one of New York City’s worst speeders.
“I was like, holy shit, this truck could hit me at any second,” one Staten Islander said of their run-in with Giovansanti and his two-ton RAM 1500. The cop “nearly hit me when I had the right of way to cross,” said another.
Borough residents said they directly witnessed Giovansanti use his pickup truck to speed, tailgate, cut off other drivers, blow red lights and menace pedestrians. Their testimonies lend additional weight to Giovansanti’s titanic speeding record and intensify pressure on the NYPD to intervene before their own officer kills or injures someone…