 Can't against the law. Thank you. Good afternoon. I'm happy to be here with police commissioner Sue transit chief Jason Wilcox chief Jeff Madri and All the men and women who are part of this important initiative We've heard it over and over Throughout the winter. What are we going to do about these illegal dirt bikes that are terrorizing? our entire city and communities Stated on the campaign trail that we were going to focus on these dirt bikes and ATVs they are not only a nuisance and an annoyance To us, but they're extremely dangerous and we know that we see them all the time And we hear them all times at night We see the large numbers that are moving throughout our street and we want to be clear That this is not acceptable But before I even go into the dirt bikes, I do want to just thank New Yorkers yesterday with horrific crash I spoke with the mayor in Columbus to extend our help To those family members But when you see the video of New York is there Responding to save the individuals with a victim of the crash. It just really emphasizes How we are just an amazing city no matter how difficult things are no matter how many people say New York is can be Rude and New Yorkers can be that or this when it's time for to help each other We are there and I just want to personally say thank you. We can't find them to personally thank you Thank them, but if they're out there, we want them to know we appreciate them And they lift up the symbol of what New York is And that crash personifies our concern. This can't be a city where vehicle crashes are Endangered our lives of innocent people and everyone that Use our roadways must understand that that is legal most motorcycles bicyclists car drivers skateboarders Scooters we have to understand the full scope of who's using our streets And we want to focus on that by making sure that illegal Vehicles are going to be removed from our street. We want to bring a Level of safety from crashes of any type and you know when we announced our budget That's why we allocated a billion dollars in safe street infrastructure Implementing the 24-7 speed cameras something we fought hard for with Albany We want to continue to expand that we could do more speed cameras work And we want to continue to do so but one of the most important things is what's behind us are those illegal dirt bikes the NYPD Heard the call and they did a Herculean task to get rid of these loud intimidating and dangerous and illegal dirt bikes and ATV's that are on our street and for years We witnessed what happens when they go under control or we do not enforce they continue to grow over and over again and I'm not going to give up on my promise and commitment to rid our streets of these bikes and make all of our boroughs safe Places where people can move about and as you can see from the number of bikes here today We are making good on that promise 900 bikes More than what they were able to remove last year 88% increase because of the work of the New York City Police Department and communities Communities have called up Shared information and we were able to implement that Information and so today as we stand in the shadow of the Freedom Tower We are freeing ourselves from these destructive Piece of machinery that's on our streets and they will be crushed today And so that they could never terrorize our city again Each and every one of them they will be turned into scrap metal and eventually Recycled the motorbikes are destroyed rather than resold or donated in order to prevent them from returning to our streets and Not allow them to be operating again And so again, we want to thank all those who participated and assisted up in the Retreatment of these dirt bite and so that we see this every year's first day of summer the increases go up That's why we're using this day as a day of putting in place concrete actions To make sure that we get all of these illegal bikes and vehicles off our streets And of course we need to do more and we are going to do more We're going to we're going to continue this pattern to rid the streets of these bikes And we have made great strides with our partners in Albany of this session in securing the cameras Operations and other things, but we want them to do more also. This is what I learned When we were with the congressman Esmeralda up in the Bronx There's no reason we are selling these bikes without first proof of registration proof of insurance Many of these bikes don't have insurance if they strike someone You know the person is left with medical costs and other out-of-pocket expenses and so we are pushing for a legislation to have the ATV dealers to ask potential buyers to show proof of insurance and vehicle registration documents before removing the Illegal these vehicles onto our street. And so we're going to keep doing our part We're happy about what we're doing today is sending a strong message of our consistency in this area and really my thank to the chief of patrol Chief Madri and the police commissioner for ensuring that this initiative is important quality of life is everything and It is our focus to deal with crime and the quality of life aspects and these dirt bikes were Menace to the quality of life commissioner Thank you, mr. Mayor Thank you all for being here today along with Mayor Adams We're here at Erie Basin Auto Pound to send a very strong and very clear message To anyone who illegally operates an ATV dirt bike or other such a vehicle on the streets of New York City We will seize that bike and we will destroy it We take this very seriously because driving these motorbikes on city streets on sidewalks or in parks and within housing Developments is dangerous. It's reckless and it's illegal. It puts everyone at risk other drivers passengers Pedestrians and not to mention the bike riders themselves Our city will not tolerate this and the NYPD will use every tool at our disposal to rid our neighborhoods of these hazards It is the people living in these communities who are making the majority of complaints They are telling us loud and clear to get these motorbikes out of our neighborhoods and keep them out and the NYPD got the message And that's exactly what we're doing today Since January the NYPD has seized over 2,000 of these vehicles citywide as the mayor said that's nearly over 80 percent more than we took by this time last year and Today we're ensuring that the bikes behind me will never return to our streets They will never again endanger another child Another grandmother on the sidewalk or another family simply trying to enjoy a day in the park They will never again have a place in New York City And that's why we have ended up here As we've said before traffic safety is public safety It deserves our full and focused attention, especially since we know that every death on our roadways and every injury should be preventable So the NYPD will continue to work closely with the mayor's office and the department of transportation And the residents of our city who demand that our streets Sidewalks in all public areas remain safe for everyone That's what new yorkers deserve and that's what their police department will deliver chief madry Thank you commissioner and thank you mr. Mayor and good afternoon to the members of the media Just really quick just talking about some of the strategies that we'll be using this summer To make sure our quality of life is where it needs to be safe and to make sure our our community is a great place to Live work and play patrol We'll be working closely with the highway units We'll be working closely with our transportation bureau and our community affairs bureau We want to make sure we get the message out to everybody who thinks about riding these bikes That they are illegal and they will be subject to be seized At every patrol borrower there's an inspector in charge and that inspector will look at the trends We'll look at the patterns of these illegal bikes and atvs Uh, the inspector will implement strategies from our overarching strategy that are more localized and meet the needs of the community We'll monitor 311 jobs to see where these uh, where Riding is persistent. We'll use our social media. We'll use social media To monitor where meet-ups are and where ride-out locations are so we can address those locations Our members understand most importantly that safety is paramount So we're going to take these bikes in a strategic and a tactical way, but to make sure that everyone is safe We'll issue any we'll issue some of this for any violations Of of the law and the bikes may very may very well end up right here These vehicles are not built for our city streets for the motorist volume for the pedestrian volume They're not to be used Last week in a 49th precinct the commandant officer addressed some community concerns and took 19 bikes in one day And this is what we'll continue to do. We'll implement strategies at the local level Listen to our communities hearing their voices and then we're going to go out and seize these bikes Thank you Before we go to crushing We won't just want to talk about uh, the police commissioner and I with chief wilcox of moved to the next phase of our subway safety plan which included Looking at what was put in place in 2014 for Many years of when the transit Police department was in place and then becoming a bureau We had a version of what was called single patrol. I did it as a a police officer One thing you know about me. I would not have anyone do a job that i'm not willing to do myself We were in the system last night. We were truly impressed With the initial rollout that the the chief wilcox and police commissioner Sewell did yesterday was the first day And we're going to continue that now. What does that look like? There are certain stations that are due patrol. There are certain stations that are due patrol. They will stay due patrol During the overnight hours We will have police officers that are doing train patrol You will have two officers on the train, but they won't be standing together One will have the back end and walk through one would have the front end and walk through Of to make sure that during the night hours hours overnight hours that they will have The protection of that to if there's a need for service something that I did alone as a police officer Of we are going to look at those stations Where I do single patrol is suitable and we will do that So we're this is the next phase of our transit safety plan This is a smart way of deploying our police officers. We were not deploying our police You see that parade You see you walk down a friendly parade to seek parade You see five officers on one side of the street on the corner five at another side of the street This is not how you deploy your manpower. I promised this on a campaign trail I'm living up to the promise of the chief of department chief of patrol the police commissioner We're all looking how do we better utilize our resources Yesterday on the subway system. It was clear the passengers that stopped us spoke with us. They said we want to see that blue uniform We want to see that blue uniform. We feel better And we feel as though the police are present now. We learned also on the subway system We're going to move with the mta to put in place a massive campaign on how to be a safe passenger Many people don't know Uh, the best place to stand during the late hours is in the conductor's position There are zebra stripes near the ceiling on a bar that tells you where the conductor position is We need to educate people to do that while I was out. I saw Of women passengers in isolated areas standing alone. That is just unsafe So we must play a role of educating passengers How to be partners in safety how to be aware how to be conscious how to use our system in a fair In a safe way, we're going to do our job, but the partnership makes it easier And now that we're going to see a greater deployment of our police officers We're answering what passengers ask for to make sure we have that omnipresence a term I use often To talk about the full presence of police officers in our system But properly utilizing them to carry out the job we want deterrence visibility Focus interacting with the passengers and interacting with those who use the system Commissioner you want to add on that? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. As Mayor Adams said, we've been saying this since this administration started New Yorkers depend on the NYPD to keep them safe in our transit system And that's exactly what this plan aims to do We will cover more ground by patrolling more subway cars per tour And increased police presence leads to a safer ride for customers and mta personnel alike We take great pride in our public safety mission in the nation's largest subway system And as we've stressed before we are always looking to improve the ways we work and how we do Our job to keep New Yorkers safe In january we outlined a subway safety plan that deployed more than 1000 additional officers into the trains and on subway platforms system-wide They work together with the thousands of officers who are currently assigned full time to the transit bureau And are focused on the lines and stations that need them the most These deployments provide vital coverage across the entire system And now we are extending that coverage even further The transit patrol plan will be intelligence driven Adaptable to shifting crime trends and based on real-time crime conditions in the transit system The goal is enhanced crime prevention and deterrence not merely a response And realizing that goal requires every available resource we have And it demands the full partnership at every level of our criminal justice system We at the nypd are committed as always to the safety and security of everyone on our trains and in our platforms and in our city This transit network is designed to connect us To link the incredible diversity of our neighborhoods and all the people who travel through them It has the powerful ability to bring us together But only when riders are completely confident that the system is safe And that's our job To make it safe and keep it safe And that's exactly what we plan to do I'll ask chief jason wilcox to come talk about our plan Thank you commissioner Thank you, mr. Mayor Also, I want to take this second this moment to thank all the members of the nypd that Worked day and night to keep our subway system safe As the commissioner and the mayor also pointed out the new york city subway system is the largest in the country And safeguarding such a sprawling system is certainly a challenge And to do this we must continue to deploy our resources and trains And on platforms as effectively and efficiently as possible And now this effort with this effort our officers working day and evening hours will now some will now conduct solo train patrols Solo train patrol represents an additional layer another step In one of our key objectives since the start of this year with the subway safety plan To focus on uniform train patrols to expand our presence Increase our visibility in the subways and on the trains to both keep people safe But also to make them feel safe No one knows how to patrol and navigate the subway system better than our nypd transit officers And as they maintain their solo patrols, we will always focus on their safety. Their safety is paramount As the plan is laid out the officers doing solo train patrol Will stay within one district on one radio division patrolling the lines and trains and stations that they are the most familiar with keeping them in close proximity to support quick backup And within accessible range of their supervisors They will be close enough to stay in the same radio frequency and always be in contact with each other These solo train patrols will not be conducted on overnight tours When officers will continue to ride the trains and walk the platforms as a team As the mayor spelled out entering a train car and moving within both Right and left of the train inspecting every train car and then meeting back in the middle Additionally, any other officers undergoing field training our youngest officers and other Task force models canine subway safety task force will not also will not be impacted by this patrol plan As the commission has said the locations are fluid and are based on current crime conditions in each command And the district commanding officers have the flexibility to respond to the fluid nature of these trends and make adjustments and adapt The patrol plan covers train lines that travel through every borough in the city except for Staten Island They represent some of the most traveled subway lines in the world And we remain determined determined To keep those that ride the new york city subways safe. Thank you You know what um as we're going to open two questions, uh, but uh, it was so important when uh commissioners sue took over Uh, how I knew she was going to bring a level of just vision To look at a good department And allow it to become a great department And you couldn't do it if you just Continue to do the things that we did criminals Continue to evolve The methods change their actions change and I needed someone that was willing to change And be adaptable and bring the right team together to do so and I knew it then And I feel even stronger now that uh, the city is extremely fortunate To have a commissioner that is dedicated to keeping the city safe And we're going to continue to evolve our product Every time there's an evolution in the criminal element We're going to keep pace with them to keep the city safe. So I thank the commissioner and our team for doing so Open to any questions So steve are you We might not Yes, and as you know when you use the term downstream I say Intervention and prevention always put them together because while we are Giving people access to safe places to ride We have an idea of looking at some of the spaces that are here in the city where you could have a a safe Place to ride dirt bikes or ATVs That is one of our focus, but we have to deal with the intervention right now Unregistered bike illegal use of it. So we're going to do both. I believe we must have intervention and prevention I'm dead on with you. Uh, you know, I loved riding a dirt bike when I was a child Uh, and so I think it's crucial that we have those spaces and we're going to look at some of the spaces out there to allow them to ride That's your broad weightless Not at this time. I love, uh, uh, open streets. Uh, the diners Uh, rodriguez our uh, commissioner is part of his plan to come forward and tell me what's the best way to do it Have a lot of faith in these diners, but the more open streets we have Uh, the better it is. I love when I'm on time square that extra space that we have So he's looking at if that's one of our target areas Are you tuna? Yes Yes Would they make a rest? Without a doubt, you don't send your troops into battle and then don't give them the support that they need And I think that we should listen clearly to what chief wilcox stated. They they're operating within their district Uh, they're going to be able to A call for assistance when needed with their radios and of using their cell phones We didn't have that Uh, many people don't know but as a transit police officer back then your radios rarely work And how you got help you would throw your stick Out the train car and made a unique sound and if an officer happened to be at the station He knew that was a call for service or you will have a whistle blown by the Uh, the conductor and so we're not putting the officers in the harms way that I believe many of us were We're going to use technology. We're going to make sure that this smart This is smartly done to get the omnipresence we want, but at the same time Make sure the officers do their job, but 100 percent You know, we're going to make sure the officers receive the support they deserve and I made that clear over and over again No, and it's not no people should not be in an isolated area I happen to have seen a few, um, women who were in isolated areas Some of the crimes that we witnessed there was a horrific one of a young model She was by herself at the end of the platform with the the person choked her brutally assaulted her She was alone. No one was there to hear her cries. No one was there to help her when I ride the subway station system I look for the zebra stripes I get in the conductor's car or the motor's man's car So what I'm asking all passengers to do are the things that I learned as being a passenger and a former transit police officer Choose how do you ride safely? We all should be able to ride to safe safely, but say this over and over again Don't live life the way it ought to be live it the way it is until we get it to where it ought to be Right now you ought not to be in an unsafe place in the system We have panic buttons that's right near the safe spaces We want to educate people about those panic buttons. We want to educate them where the zebra stripes are located Where during late hours is best to stand. We want to give people Information so they can make the right choices Now you have the freedom to do whatever you want on the system within the laws If you want to stand at the end of the platform, you have the right to do so We are going to give you our professional opinion how to have a safe ride Yes, there's certain things I'm going to do with the disciplinary process. Number one, we need to shorten the time It just takes too long takes too long for the officers who are found innocent And it takes too long for those who are not suitable to be police officers to stay in the department too long And it just erodes your trust in the system. So our goal is to make sure we shorten the period of time To make sure that we have the right penalties handed down for those who have minor infractions or serious infractions And that is our goal to do so the police commissioner gave me a flowchart of the system We're going through it to find out where the bottleneck is located so we can expedite these cases at a more rapid pace How are you katie? Look at Well, first of all, you just gave some great ideas We are going to go back and see the feasibility of getting them radios I like the idea of allowing them to have ATVs or some way to get to a stretch of a beach That's I think that's a brilliant idea and I love the idea of coordination with the fdny And so I'm going to have my team you just gave Fabian more work to do You know, I'm going to have my team look at those three great ideas that you gave us as crucial now with that said There's a national Lifeguard shortage. It's a national shortage. I would love to go to Of the jersey shore and steal their lifeguards, but they have a shortage I would like to go to miami and tell suarez. I'm taking his lifeguards, but he has a shortage So there's a national shortage We are looking at how do we Feel that shortage and they're we're looking at some of the rules That require a person to teach lessons to be if they're teaching in city sites That they must have a license We're trying to they must have a lifeguard license We're trying to see if we could rethink some of these rules to address these shortages because you know It breaks all our hearts to see a young person that dies mainly because they want to use the beach So our goal is to find a safe way To ensure that we can open as many beaches as possible and have as many lifeguards as possible I read that story. Uh, I didn't see I didn't see that part of the story that they were blocking The coordination now if they're blocking the coordination because of the union issue Then we have to take that to the bargaining table if they're blocking it because Someone in city hall historically made a policy I'm going to tell you right now that policy is going to end Very quickly That is not going to happen Union we would negotiate at the bargaining table policy I don't make the law. I make policy and trust me. I'm going to find out I'm going to speak to our legal team I brought the article to their attention and I'm going to speak to our legal legal team to find out Is there some way that they are stopping the coordination? That is not going to happen if it's within my powers You just had a lot of great ideas today. You know that You know, you're about to get in trouble because you keep passing over marsha Okay Well, we you you want to do the best you can to alleviate these accidents and the goal is to eradicate them of again Commissioner adonis radriguez is looking at you know, we're doing a A substantial number of streets redesigned We'll find out if that is on his redesign Our goal is to make sure that we are safe as possible Part of this as we do an analysis of the issues we're facing A lot of this is dealing with speeding Reckless driver drivers. It's amazing how many fatalities are taking place on our highways right now And that's why we look at the potentiality of even putting speed cameras on highways When I looked at the video yesterday I was disappointed to see the bicyclists went through the red light That was troubling So it's it's human era human recklessness and street redesign That's the combination and that is why we we are redesigning streets And that's one of the things that adonis radriguez our commissioners doing Without a doubt and you know, we have to get it right I'm never going to allow expediency to get in a way of accuracy We have to get it right, you know, we we have some real Innovative ways up our sleeve of that we're going to be rolling out, but we have to get it right The commissioners not going to let me just bring on anything, you know, we're going to test things We are open to the innovation But the innovation must reach up to our Our, you know expectation on what it could be produced. We're excited. There's some good stuff out there, but we got to make sure it's right Yeah, there's a couple of things that we like, but if I do that You know, you guys are going to write a story and so I just want to avoid the story You know, Kate is just waiting for me to say something so she could write a story, you know We we got to get it right Marsha this this There's a couple there's a couple of stations that From my days of policing were due patrol 34th street huge station Fulton Broadway and Nassau on the a 2 3 j m four or five huge station Of when you look at 14th street, you know, those are like due patrol now We have seen an evolution from due patrol to quadruple patrol And you know having six seven officers doing patrol together No, you know So we we know we understand chief will cox and his team They fully understand what stations are required Due patrol now remember transit has had due patrol all the way up to 2014 radios in work Terrible infrastructure These men and women did the job they did it well and so this this is not I wish I could say this is a new invention For me, but it's not it is going back to Utilizing our resources that I keep saying over and over again and the commissioner has been clear on We have to utilize our resources Of better than we have and she's been rolling that out from parade You're going to impress on how many millions of dollars we're going to save my parade details She's finding a better way to deploy our police personnel In j Yes, sir, absolutely. We do not want officers to chase them We don't want to create a bigger problem by chasing them So we just have to use different strategies and in jack can't let you know every one of them I have to keep a few secrets But you know and one thing I do ask and I failed to mention To our neighbors if you see these illegal bikes parked on On city streets Housing and housing developments in the hallway hallways Please call us and we'll remove them. But uh, like I said, we have ways of Of coming up in a stealthy manner And taking the vehicles again without chasing them Doing it away where everybody is safe that motors has to walk away safe The cops have to be safe and we address it like that. So We have a lot of ways we took 19 of them last week in the Bronx very successfully Again, I can't let all the secrets out But uh, like I said our officers it takes a lot of patience again We can't chase if we have to wait to their stationary We have to wait to they're not moving, you know Sometimes they get off the bike to take a break to buy soda To go get gas things like that. We have to be smart and very patient and it works You you know, not only is paddlingge uh the union president of paddlingge And I have always had a great relationship throughout the Almost 30 years that I have known him He's going to speak on behalf of his members And we're going to make sure we update him on exactly what we're doing because he has to Represent his members and if you were to just throw out there, hey, they going to solo patrol without Seeing the thoroughness from chief wilcox, then your gut automatically Those of us know that every station should not be solo patrol So we're going to show how we're going to do this correctly To go back to the days When pat was on patrol. He knew transit police How was done? We looked stay troopers You know, we talked about solo patrol stay troopers have solo patrol So it's about doing it in a safe way And you're not in danger in police officers and you're not going to Put our passengers in a place that we're not deploying our police properly So pat was pat was updated on what we were going to do. We didn't want to surprise him We updated him on what we were going to do. Uh, he's going to speak on behalf of his members I'm going to ensure that we protect our police officers and protect our passengers together Yes, yes, yes, you know, it's about being smarter And your, uh, your approach, uh, we were, I was on a crowded D train one day crowded I don't know if it was a holiday or what and this woman got into a dispute With, uh, someone that was dating her next boyfriend and she tried to stab him on the train And you know, we were in between stations. I had to wrestle with her to get the knife from her Passengers helped To, you know, to get to police The motor man Did a signal that we do when a police officer is in trouble or there's an emergency And there there were times, you know, for for july Coming from, you know, I was in district 34 for for july coming from I did eight at night to six a.m. In the morning of You know coming from coney island during late at night Right in the D train path You know, you know, everybody laugh about when I talk about bobby queuing on trains. Somebody was on the train actually bobby queue And you know after you've had a lot of beer muscles, you know, someone telling you you have to put out the bobby queue You know, it wasn't a very, uh, nice interaction And so there's been moments and there's a whole lot of moments of when you are alone you become smarter You know, you know, you don't want to take actions, you know at different times. You're strategic and riding within the district Is a important attitude that chief will cox stated we did we went from coney island to west fourth street We went through several districts and so we are smarter. We learned from those error and now we're doing it in a smarter way