Post by abbey1227 on Jul 6, 2022 7:04:05 GMT
NYC officials announce plans to crack down on 'ghost cars' NYPD
By Kimberly Dole 1010 WINS
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – New York City officials on Tuesday warned drivers of vehicles caught with illegal, fake, paper license plates will be towed and could potentially be auctioned off.
"We are towing ghost cars because we know the drivers of these cars are up to no good," said Mayor Eric Adams. "The law is coming after anyone who tries to make their car untraceable. We will not allow vehicles to be weaponized and our streets to be turned into a battlefield."
As of July 3, 2022, the NYPD has issued 16,448 tickets to drivers for using illegal or obstructed license plates, towed 1,700 vehicles, and seized 2,478 vehicles.
Additionally, the Sheriff’s Office has seized over 800 vehicles since July 2021, most of which had fictitious license plates from various states.
Arrests involving vehicles that displayed temporary paper plates rose to 3,568 in 2021, a 300 percent increase compared to 893 arrests effected in 2016 involving those vehicles.
"The issue of ensuring that legitimate, legible, license plates remain a viable tool in our collective efforts to ensure safe streets demands our immediate attention, at every level," said Police Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell. "The urgency of this issue is reflected in the NYPD’s ongoing efforts. We will defeat this public-safety threat. We will eradicate fake and obscured license plates that create what are essentially a class of untraceable, ghost-cars moving among us."
According to authorities, on June 25, a stolen Honda with an incorrect, expired South Carolina license plate evaded a car stop in Brooklyn and struck several people, fatally injuring a 67-year-old grandmother and critically injuring an 8-year-old boy.
The 2022 Vehicle License Plates Working Group, an intelligence-driven effort is helping to spearhead the crackdown on ghost cars and focusing on creating safe, navigable roadways for all New Yorkers by tackling the increasing problem of illegal and obscured registration plates.
The NYPD is focusing on the work of patrol officers in all 77 precincts, across all neighborhoods, to crack down on obscured and illegal plates.
Obstructed and temporary paper plates can easily be found for sale and purchased online and can be used to defraud the city’s speed and red-light cameras – resulting in upticks in dangerous traffic violations, making it difficult for officers on patrol effecting investigatory car stops to obtain routine registration data.
By Kimberly Dole 1010 WINS
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – New York City officials on Tuesday warned drivers of vehicles caught with illegal, fake, paper license plates will be towed and could potentially be auctioned off.
"We are towing ghost cars because we know the drivers of these cars are up to no good," said Mayor Eric Adams. "The law is coming after anyone who tries to make their car untraceable. We will not allow vehicles to be weaponized and our streets to be turned into a battlefield."
As of July 3, 2022, the NYPD has issued 16,448 tickets to drivers for using illegal or obstructed license plates, towed 1,700 vehicles, and seized 2,478 vehicles.
Additionally, the Sheriff’s Office has seized over 800 vehicles since July 2021, most of which had fictitious license plates from various states.
Arrests involving vehicles that displayed temporary paper plates rose to 3,568 in 2021, a 300 percent increase compared to 893 arrests effected in 2016 involving those vehicles.
"The issue of ensuring that legitimate, legible, license plates remain a viable tool in our collective efforts to ensure safe streets demands our immediate attention, at every level," said Police Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell. "The urgency of this issue is reflected in the NYPD’s ongoing efforts. We will defeat this public-safety threat. We will eradicate fake and obscured license plates that create what are essentially a class of untraceable, ghost-cars moving among us."
According to authorities, on June 25, a stolen Honda with an incorrect, expired South Carolina license plate evaded a car stop in Brooklyn and struck several people, fatally injuring a 67-year-old grandmother and critically injuring an 8-year-old boy.
The 2022 Vehicle License Plates Working Group, an intelligence-driven effort is helping to spearhead the crackdown on ghost cars and focusing on creating safe, navigable roadways for all New Yorkers by tackling the increasing problem of illegal and obscured registration plates.
The NYPD is focusing on the work of patrol officers in all 77 precincts, across all neighborhoods, to crack down on obscured and illegal plates.
Obstructed and temporary paper plates can easily be found for sale and purchased online and can be used to defraud the city’s speed and red-light cameras – resulting in upticks in dangerous traffic violations, making it difficult for officers on patrol effecting investigatory car stops to obtain routine registration data.
“We are committed to taking these vehicles out of circulation. If your vehicle is parked with a fraudulent or obstructed plate, it will be ticketed, towed, and removed to an NYPD tow pound,” said NYPD Chief of Transportation Kim Y. Royster.
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