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Police issued 440 tickets for biking on the sidewalk in 2018 and 2019, and 374 of those — or 86.4 percent — went to Black and Hispanic New Yorkers. During the same time period, police issued white cyclists just 39 tickets — only 9 percent. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/06/22/nypd-targets-black-and-brown-cyclists-for-biking-on-the-sidewalk/
Black men made up the largest chunk of all summonses issued, receiving 51 percent of the tickets where race was listed. White women received just three tickets.
Here is a photo of a police officer riding a just-arrested man’s bike on the sidewalk
According to a 2017 report from @NYC_DOT, Black cyclists accounted for 20 percent of the total number of bikers in NYC; Hispanic cyclists 29 percent, and white cyclists 40 percent. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/bike-safety-study-fullreport2017.pdf
In a new report from @TransAlt last week, which calls for removing the NYPD from traffic enforcement, protected bike lanes contribute to as much as a 94-percent drop in cycling on the sidewalk. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/06/19/ta-report/
