Green means go, red means go … directly to criminal court.
The NYPD has changed its enforcement policy towards bicyclists, slapping them with criminal summonses instead of regular traffic tickets for low-level offenses such as passing through red lights or not stopping at a stop sign — a policy the Finest quietly launched this week under the guise of responding to “quality of life” complaints.
NYPD previously would hand out so-called B summonses, a traffic ticket that allowed people to pay a $190 fine or contest the ticket at a virtual Department of Motor Vehicles hearing. But under the new regime, the criminal summonses will require suspects to show up in person in criminal court — potentially flooding the courthouse with thousands of new cases, each potentially requiring the arresting officer to show up…