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” lists show plates that were recorded at least once in the geography during the latest 12-month speed-camera window, ranked by their citywide total speed-camera tickets during that same window. 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.