NYPD honcho tells council that it faces obstacles in fight against ‘ghost plates’
and covered or obscured plates, the council Transportation Committee invited the NYPD to discuss its enforcement efforts against the increasingly widespread problem.
“Any vehicle bearing one of these fraudulent plates instantly becomes undetectable to nearly every aspect of street level enforcement — from tolls to speed and red light cameras and even parking enforcement,” Pilecki said. Of the 1,084 vehicles that NYPD has towed with paper plates this year, he said, cops only found 18 cases where there were forgeries. On the other hand, NYPD made 1,777 arrests when they pulled over cars that had forged or altered plates for moving violations.Ghost plates are far from the only way that motorists have increasingly taken to evading traffic violations in recent years.,” involve covering plates with camera-resistant screens, paint, tape and other objects.
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