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Transportation and Land Use Research Scholar Elif Ensari and collaborator Benjamin Arnav have co-authored “Eye in the Sky: Harnessing AI to Monitor Police Response to Illegal Parking Complaints,” which analyzes a network of 21 publicly available camera feeds across all five boroughs, operated by the New York City Department of Transportation, to monitor and file illegal-parking complaints and subsequently track and assess enforcement efficacy. This research was profiled in Streetsblog’s “Study Exposes NYPD’s ‘Systemic Failure’ to Enforce Safety-Related Parking Violations”:
“Our findings paint a picture of inconsistent, and in some cases non-existent, parking enforcement in New York City,” Arnav and Ensari wrote. “The high rate of complaints closed while illegal parking was still occurring, combined with the low rate of ticket issuance, suggests a systemic failure in addressing this issue.” ...
The latest study by Arnav, an independent researcher, and Ensari, of NYU, makes clear that these complaints are far from silly—the 21 locations studied for the report were the site of two deaths, 257 injuries and 2,319 crashes within 50 meters dating back to 2014.