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Posted on 04/24/2026 12:10:33 PM PDT by algore
James Giovansanti lives and works on Staten Island. Since 2022, traffic cameras have caught his pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times in that one borough. He received 187 camera-issued tickets in 2025 alone — an average of one every other day.
That record makes Giovansanti the second-most-reckless driver in the city. Because he pilots a 4,800-pound RAM 1500 truck at more than 41 mph across the island, he poses a unique danger to himself and his neighbors. Ticket data show a pattern of dangerous driving in a wide arc from Pleasant Plains to Tompkinsville.
And here’s what makes him a true enemy of the public: Giovansanti is an officer in the New York City Police Department — the agency supposedly in charge of keeping New Yorkers out of harm’s way.
One policing expert said Giovansanti’s record indicates that he is “indifferent to public safety” — and even if he wasn’t driving every single time the truck was caught by a speed camera, he was clearly allowing someone else to drive his vehicle recklessly.
The expert, former cop turned criminal justice professor Michael Alcazar, said Giovansanti should face “serious discipline.” But that’s not happening — an NYPD spokesperson shrugged off the suggestion of punishment because Giovansanti’s tickets are “not related to his job or his duties in the department.”
Giovansanti received 116 tickets for moving violations in 2022, 127 tickets in 2023, 124 tickets in 2024, and 180 tickets in 2025. The DOT graphic (which only applies to drivers who receive tickets from cops) suggests that James Giovansanti is extremely likely to injure or kill someone.
Transportation Alternatives analyzed school-zone camera tickets issued through the end of 2025. The advocacy group published the license plates — but not the names — of the city’s 10 worst super speeders. Giovansanti’s current plate ranked sixth.
We soon determined that Officer Giovansanti has owned the 2022 RAM 1500 since early 2022. It currently has the license plate LFC3742, but it had a different plate, KVJ5603, between January 2022 and October 2023.
Over those 20 months, Giovansanti’s truck piled up 223 speeding tickets that cost him more than $15,000. As you can see in the map below, Giovansanti exhibited the same pattern on the first plate as he did the second: speeding throughout Staten Island, but especially on the North Shore.
This brings the total number of Giovansanti’s speeding tickets to a staggering 547 since January 2022, worth a total of $36,650.02 — which means that he would rank as the second-worst driver in the entire city.
And remember: Those 547 tickets are only associated with his current pickup truck. It’s unclear whether he drove or owned any cars before 2022, and if so, how many speeding tickets he incurred while driving them.
The finer details of Giovansanti’s record are alarming, too. He incurred 20 tickets for failing to stop at a red light — an act that is often far more dangerous than simply speeding. Four of those red-light tickets are timestamped within five minutes of a separate speeding ticket.
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How in the world does he get insured?
And NYPD has no system that cross checks traffic tickets against their own employee roster, and has no rules mandating disciplinary action or suspension of officers with excessive traffic violations???
Does NYS have a “points” system?
I guess the NYPD version of SCMODS has a filter.
From the Blues Brothers.
State
County
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Offender
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System
> How in the world does he get insured?
Insured? What’s that?
Did I read that correctly that 41 MPH is somewhat a dangerous menace?
Those tickets prove he needs to be removed from the work he does as armed law enforcement, there is a lot wrong with him and it relates to the kind of job he has.
Most speeding limits have nothing to do with safety. Its nothing but stealth taxation. I’m former LEO
That doesn’t change my post about this mental case.
re: Did I read that correctly that 41 MPH is somewhat a dangerous menace?
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Are you doubting it? It says he speeds through red lights and school zones.
The Staten Island default speed limit is 25 mph for most residential and local streets, and school zones often have limits as low as 15 mph. So when the article says he’s clocked at “more than 41 mph” it sounds a category of speeding ticket: for 16 mph or more over the 25 mph limit, or 26 mph or more over the limit for school zones.
I wonder how many of these tickets in school zones happened during the middle of the night when there were zero people going to or from the school. I’m not excusing the speeding but having school zone speed limits 24 hours a day, 365 days a year is a money grab not a safety factor.
The first time in Florida that I saw that a school zone speed limit was in effect only on school days and during certain hours in the morning and afternoon, I thought yes, this is common sense. There’s even a flashing sign to let you know that the slow speed limit is in effect.
Around here, 40 is the normal speed limit for most roads and goes up from there and I live in a large city.
I guess he is able to get them fixed?
He should have ceased to be an officer in the NYPD after about 3 of those plus he belongs in jail.
A city that I used to live in had the unofficial motto of “we don’t raise taxes, we lower the speed limit. “
School zone speeds here are in effect here when kids are going to school and getting out of school.
Was he the driver?
The article states it was his vehicle with no mention of the driver.
Does he provide useful services to his Godfather?
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