Repeat speeding incidents are camera tickets issued after a plate has crossed a policy threshold within a rolling window (e.g., 6 tickets within 12 months). Incidents after the threshold—and after any enforcement lag—are considered “preventable.”

Key points:

• Window: 12 months, rolling.
• Thresholds: typically 6 and 16; we also show 12 for exploration.
• Scope: NYC school‑zone speed cameras (violation code 36).
• Geography: incidents are geotagged to council/assembly/senate districts, neighborhoods (NTA), community boards, boroughs and police precincts.
• Citywide vs local: the “12‑mo citywide” number sums a plate’s tickets across the city; lists for a geography include plates seen at least once in that geography in the recent window.

Data notes:

• Datasets have fiscal‑year seams; we de‑duplicate overlaps by selecting one dataset per month before summing.
• We use consistent intersection parsing and borough normalization across pipelines; geocoding prefers cache and NYC Geoclient, with fallbacks.
• Methodology and exporters live in the newsroom/ tree of the repo.

Top Offenders (Rolling)

“Caught speeding recently” lists show plates that were recorded at least once in the geography in the last 90 days, ranked by their citywide total speed‑camera tickets over the last 12 months. Where available, we include a vehicle descriptor (year, color, make).

Policy Context: “Super Speeder” Bill

Albany is considering a “super speeder” bill to address chronic speeding by creating enhanced penalties and interventions for drivers with repeated speed‑camera violations (e.g., 6 or more within a 12‑month window). Our “preventable” counts estimate the incidents that could have been avoided once a driver crossed the threshold. The goal is to ground the debate in concrete, district‑level numbers while keeping the focus on safety.