article_snippet: Jaywalking summonses have risen to 2,000 a year since the mayor implemented the crackdown, according to the Post.
article_snippet: Wiley Norvell, a spokesperson for City Hall, took to Twitter Saturday saying that five tickets a day in a city of millions is hardly a 'jaywalking crackdown' The girls' families plan to fight Each summons and sue the driver.
article_snippet: Though the officer's held that they were simply following orders in delivering the 'mandatory' tickets, Wiley Norvell, a spokesman for City Hall, told Gothamist that there is 'no such thing as a 'zero tolerance' policy on jaywalking.' '
article_snippet: Norvell stated that five jaywalking tickets are issued each day adding that 100 are given for failure to yield.
article_snippet: Norvell took to Twitter Saturday saying that five tickets a day in a city of millions is hardly a 'jaywalking crackdown.'
article_snippet: the city saw an increase in jaywalking tickets shortly after the mayor implemented the Vision Zero plan in 2014.
article_snippet: With Police Commissioner Bill Bratton embracing the mayor's plan, the New York Police Department issued more than 400 jaywalking tickets in the first two months of 2014 -- compared with just 50 the year before, the Post reports.
article_snippet: a 'jaywalking crackdown provided tickets to many New Yorkers last year, Meanwhile de Blasio and his security detail were caught on video jaywalking.