A brazen NYPD cop racked up more than 500 speeding tickets in his home borough over the last four years — making him one of the most reckless drivers in the entire city, according to a report.
Officer James Giovansanti, 33, was caught on traffic cameras either speeding through school zones or disregarding red lights a whopping 187 times in the last year alone — and that’s only on Staten Island, Streetsblog reported Thursday.
Going back to 2022, the lead-footed cop has tallied a jaw-dropping 547 tickets across the forgotten borough, the outlet revealed.
Giovansanti typically puts the pedal to the metal while plowing his Ram pickup truck through the densely populated neighborhoods on Staten Island’s North Shore, ticket data shows.
Two cameras near Port Richmond High School, located alongside the Bayonne Bridge, clocked the off-duty officer tearing through red lights 105 times since 2022, according to the data.
Most city streets impose a 25 to 30 mph speed limit. It’s not immediately clear how fast Giovansanti was driving when he was caught on the speeding cameras.
Giovansanti was fined anywhere from $50 to $176.12 for his various driving and parking offenses, save for two outlying violations in Brooklyn and Queens.
In all, he’s accumulated $36,650.02 in fines, and it’s not clear if he’s paid the amount in full.
Comparatively, Streetsblog reported that the city’s reigning reckless driving champion, an unidentified Brooklynite, has amassed a startling $63,744.23 in fines.
City drivers who garner two or more moving violation tickets annually are 40 times more likely to cause a crash that could kill or critically injure others, according to the New York City Department of Transportation.
New York State Sen. Andrew Gounardes said that Giovansanti is exactly the kind of “serial speeder” his “Stop Super Speeders Act” will hold accountable.
“Cops are supposed to protect and serve, not speed and swerve. Their job is to keep us safe, so it’s disappointing to see this officer putting his neighbors in harm’s way,” Gounardes wrote on Facebook.
The state lawmaker said that his act “works the same way” as the speeding camera program, with the hardline of placing speed limiters in cars linked to drivers who are issued 16 or more speeding tickets in one year.
The Post reached out to the NYPD for comment.
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