Thanks for that info but not what I asked. Does an emergency vehicle in NY have to have its sirens on to go through a red light?
Who ever said an officer can blow a red because he feels like it?
Just because there's no one going to stop him that doesn't give him a reason to commit crime, that's unfortunate in the world we live in, that an officer thinks he's a cop so who's going to stop him, but it's not like that, when the officer is doing his job and in pursuit or whatever it's understandable that he can blow a red, but a regular basis because he's lazy to wait at the red?
You can see from this article yourself that at one point they made the officers pay for a red light camera ticket, if they did not record at that time of day a call or whatever...
New York, NY – Nypd brass is cracking down on cops who go through red lights while on patrol by forcing officers to fork over $50 fines if they get caught on camera and can’t prove they were on legitimate police business.
A Manhattan cop said he was hit with a summons three months ago after he ran a red light to stop a vehicle with a potential drunken driver.
The motorist was sober but tired, so no ticket was issued, and the cop didn’t make a note of the stop in his memo book, he said.
When the precinct received the red-light summons, his supervisor grilled him — then ordered him to pay the fine.
“They didn’t believe me,” the cop said. “Where was the proof? I had to pay it out of my own pocket.”
His union blasted the policy.
“We were trained in the Police Academy that the greatest single deterrent to crime is police omnipresence, which translates into catching the bad guys by surprise,” said Pat Lynch, head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.
“If that means circling a block with suspicious activity or passing a light for the sake of catching a perp off guard, then so be it.”