NYPD Cracks Down On Speeders, But One Cop’s Ram Got 547 Speeding Tickets

An NYPD officer’s truck racked up hundreds of violations without penalties.
Repeated speeding near schools has raised serious safety concerns.
The case exposes a gap between enforcement rhetoric and reality.

In New York, traffic cameras issue tickets constantly but violators face civil penalties, not criminal ones. As a result, drivers can rack up hundreds of tickets without it ever affecting their license. Now, one investigation has linked the vehicle of an NYPD officer to 547 traffic cam violations over the last few years. Not only does he still have a license, but he’s also still on the force, ticketing other drivers for speeding. Takes one to know one, perhaps?

According to NYCStreetsBlog, since 2022, a Ram 1500 reportedly registered to Staten Island officer James Giovansanti has been hit with 547 camera-issued tickets for speeding and red-light violations. In total, they are worth over $36,000 in revenue. That includes 187 in 2025 alone, roughly one every other day, all while the officer remains on the force

Read: NYPD Officers Wrote 678,000 Tickets Last Year, Cameras Wrote 4.4 Million

To be clear, camera systems identify vehicles, not drivers. There’s no public proof that Giovansanti himself was behind the wheel for every, or any, of these violations. It’s also unknown whether any of those incidents involved legitimate emergency circumstances. He was contacted for comment by NYCStreetsBlog, but did not respond, leaving a long list of unanswered questions about who was driving and why the behavior appears so consistent.

We went to Staten Island to track down New York City's second-worst driver:

He's an @NYPDnews officer who has been caught blasting through school zones or running red lights in his truck more than 547 times since 2022. pic.twitter.com/9DGkXJgIgr
— Streetsblog New York City (@StreetsblogNYC) April 23, 2026

What is known is where and how the violations occurred. Many cluster along Staten Island’s North Shore, including corridors near schools and dense residential areas. In New York, speed cameras only trigger when a vehicle exceeds the limit by at least 11 mph, meaning each citation likely involved speeds of 41 mph or more in a 30-mph zone. These are the kind of violations that New York officials bemoan as a danger to citizens.

Too often there are no consequences in the criminal justice system for this type of outrageous behavior.

Clearly, it’s time for that to change.

My hope and expectation is that Asil Assaidi will be held fully accountable for his actions. https://t.co/TZFeRCK8zI
— Jessica S. Tisch (@NYPDPC) April 23, 2026

In the post above, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch rails against those doing donuts and burnouts which is unquestionably a safety issue. What she might not have expected is the amount of people who then responded to her by asking about Giovansanti. “Commissioner, can you also hold James Giovansanti accountable? After all, he works for you,” said one. “Funny how the much more habitually dangerous & reckless driving of NYPD cops never results in consequences, huh? Clearly, it’s BEEN time for that to change,” said another.

The NYPD has indicated the violations are unrelated to the officer’s official duties, and there’s no public record of disciplinary action tied to them. That may follow departmental policy, but it still leaves an awkward disconnect that looks a lot like blatant hypocrisy. A vehicle linked to a police officer is repeatedly flagged for speeding, while the department continues to enforce those same laws citywide. Is the way we police speed reasonable or not? The NYPD doesn’t seem eager to answer.