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A recent report into prolific ‘speeders’ across New York City has revealed that one such speeder, who has racked up 547 speeding violations in Staten Island alone since 2022, is an NYPD officer. The report from StreetsBlog NYC reveals just how hundreds of these infractions have occurred in school zones.
Under normal circumstances, any driver who was caught repeatedly speeding through school zones would lose their driver’s license but this Staten Island-based NYPD officer is not facing consequences, according to the report, because these speeding tickets are “not related to his job or his duties in the department” according to an NYPD spokesman.
The 2nd Most Prolific Speeder In NYC Is An NYPD Officer In Staten Island (Report)
In the state of New York, speeding can result in anywhere from 3 to 11 points being added to a driver’s license. If 11 or more points are accrued within a period of 18 months this leads to the suspension of a driver’s license. Not in this instance, however.
The illuminating StreetsBlog NYC report tracked down a history of the speeding violations. Here they have a list of all the NYPD officer’s school zone speeding violations dating back to January 20, 2022 and up until February of this year.
In total, they list 527 school zone speeding violations. I put emphasis on the school zone there as a reminder that these are the very areas where school-aged children are walking and drivers are expected to be hyper vigilant.
Since Streets Blog reporter J.K. Trotter released his findings, the story has now been picked up by NYC-area Spectrum News 1. They released this video clip earlier today on the report:
The tickets are linked to his 4,800-pound RAM 1500 truck, which here in SW Florida are a dime a dozen but during the ten years I lived in NYC I’m not sure I saw more than a handful of pickup trucks at all. I was in Mahattan and not Staten Island, and I parked my car in a garage way up on 116th Street, but even still, a RAM 1500 truck in NYC is eerily similar to someone in landlocked Iowa slapping a ‘Salt Life’ sticker on their car. It makes no sense.
I came across this story initially on X (neé Twitter) from someone who shared a ‘heat map’ of Staten Island where the 500+ speeding tickets have been issued over the past several years:
This is incredible reporting. Mapping one cop's driving like an epidemic is perfect https://t.co/SiOB2YBH2s pic.twitter.com/QMh54DUUpt
— Noah Lanard (@nlanard) April 23, 2026
Someone in the comments claimed ‘we got an NYPD speeder doing GTA 6 before GTA 6 even came out’ and if that’s not accurate I don’t know what is.
For more on this NYPD speeder story, including the officer’s name, follow the link above to Streets Blog.