The NYPD is fairly useless when it comes to traffic enforcement other than ticketing cyclists. They'll ignore trucks blocking crosswalks (and endangering pedes

The NYPD is fairly useless when it comes to traffic enforcement other than ticketing cyclists. They'll ignore trucks blocking crosswalks (and endangering pedestrians). Double parking in bus and bike lanes. Tractor-trailers (which are technically illegal to drive through the city at all without a special permit for each delivery, but that's never enforced) blocking both crosswalks and the entire intersection because they didn't wait for the street ahead to have room, and making blind turns where they come within inches of mowing down pedestrians crossing with the light (whom they couldn't see because their cab and hood are too high, which is part of why they're illegal). Heck, police cruisers are some of the worst offenders when it comes to blocking crosswalks; parking on sidewalks (thus forcing pedestrians into the street), and other such obnoxious behavior. And when a driver crushes or kills a pedestrian or cyclist, the NYPD goes out of their way to defend instead of prosecuting the driver. Even when eyewitness accounts and video evidence show the driver at fault. Even when the driver was driving without a license or under the influence.