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Former NYPD Chief Admits Giving 'Free Pass' to City Workers, Right Wing Allies - Streetsblog New York City NYPD cops ignore transgressions by drivers if they happen to be listeners of right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg, former police chief John Chell said.

got harassed on twitter by Sid Rosenberg and John Chell today and all i got was an admission that NYPD won't issue you a traffic ticket if you listen to the right talk show or have the right job nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/25/f...

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More to the point: the policy outcome here is one you and I are both happy with. I respect if you didn't like our approach/strategy - really, I do - but posting like this when we've ended up where we all wanted to end up feels like picking a fight for the sake of picking a fight.

The story is written more or less straight because we were the first to break it so prioritized providing proper context. Nothing in there matches the level of negativity you're projecting on it.

Perhaps we just fundamentally disagree on the value of scrutinizing elected officials, and that's fine, but that's what I understand as the role of journalism & how I've practiced it for 10+ years. That doesn't change because the mayor is now one of the good guys. And today showed that it works.

I'm frustrated because I have known you a long time and I don't think these criticisms are fair. We covered this crackdown for a year, more than anyone, publicly held the mayor accountable when it continued on his watch & celebrated (literally popped champagne) when it ended.

We have asked these questions repeatedly and will continue to try to get them answered, but they are secondary to today's news that the crackdown is ending.

BTW our story literally said "making good on his campaign promise"...

Would you have preferred we kept silent when the criminal summonses continued on his watch?

Look at my accountant dawg, I’m going to jail

I'm wearing my Knicks hat today

Brace yourself

Wizards are primed for him tho

'CAR'-Tastrophe: Big Tech is Secretly Behind Hochul's Auto Insurance Rate Cut Push - Streetsblog New York City Is Uber really interested in a more affordable New York?

Big tech companies like Uber have been spending big to deregulate auto insurance in New York state, at the expense of crash victims, and Gov. Hochul is pushing their cause in the name of "affordability." nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/22/c...

His comment is in the story.

Gov. Hochul's Uber-Backed Car Insurance 'Reforms' Threaten Payouts To Crash Victims - Streetsblog New York City Hochul wants to limit payouts to crash victims under the banner of "affordability" and claims that "staged crashes" drive up insurance rates.

Gov. Hochul is pushing an Uber-backed proposal to make it harder for car crash victims to receive compensation for their injuries under the guise of affordability — and with the support of the new mayor.

nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/14/g...

We are changing it to "has not announced anything."

fwiw i think the tracker is not being received with the level of hostility you perceive. DOT told us they thought it was funny.

okay

Unlicensed Drivers Comprise One-Quarter Of Street Fatalities: Data - Streetsblog New York City Unlicensed drivers are now responsible for one-quarter of road fatalities — and are linked to fatal crashes much more often now than pre-pandemic, a new Streetsblog analysis shows.

Unlicensed drivers killed nearly 300 pedestrians, cyclists and motorists on city streets between 2021-2024 — and their percentage share of the carnage soared in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, new city data analyzed by Streetsblog shows.

noted!

One of the biggest tells of how blatantly screwed up medicine's mishandling of chronic illnesses is comes from physicians who end up suffering from them pretty much all saying that it's nothing like what they were taught it's like and no one else in the profession is bothered by that.

thanks for flagging. we will discuss.

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