- An NYPD officer’s truck racked up hundreds of violations without penalties.
- Repeated speeding near schools has raised serious safety concerns.
- The case exposes a gap between enforcement rhetoric and reality.
In New York, traffic cameras issue tickets constantly but violators face civil penalties, not criminal ones. As a result, drivers can rack up hundreds of tickets without it ever affecting their license. Now, one investigation has linked the vehicle of an NYPD officer to 547 traffic cam violations over the last few years. Not only does he still have a license, but he’s also still on the force, ticketing other drivers for speeding. Takes one to know one, perhaps?
According to NYCStreetsBlog, since 2022, a Ram 1500 reportedly registered to Staten Island officer James Giovansanti has been hit with 547 camera-issued tickets for speeding and red-light violations. In total, they are worth over $36,000 in revenue. That includes 187 in 2025 alone, roughly one every other day, all while the officer remains on the force
Read: NYPD Officers Wrote 678,000 Tickets Last Year, Cameras Wrote 4.4 Million…