With outreach like this, maybe it’s better to get ignored.
You may have noticed that police precincts love to tweet photos of their officers handing out bike safety pamphlets to cyclists just trying to go about their day. But come on is this really a good role for the police, to stop people on bikes and make them take a flier on how it’s their fault when they get hit by someone driving a car?
If you look at crash data (courtesy of Crashmapper), it’s clear that no, there’s no reason to do this. The NYPD doesn’t really like to dip its toes in #bikeNYC, and honestly that’s pretty fair (love you kids), but when the police