It's the Brian Lear Show.

I'm producer Amina Serna filling in for Brian today.

What should the city and state do about the so-called super speeders, the drivers who get

more than 16 speeding tickets in a year?

It's a small group, to be clear, but within it, some drivers have been caught on camera,

not dozens, but hundreds of times.

Governor Kathy Hokel wants to force them to install devices in their cars that physically prevent them from going too fast.

But assembly member, assembly speaker Carl Hasty has blocked the bill.

And how much of a difference would this legislation actually make, given that this list of super speeders does not include the drivers who figured out how to

beat the cameras entirely. J.K. Trotter has been covering all of this for Streets blog, NYC. He has one

story, which we'll discuss, about one of the city's most problematic super speeders, an NYPD cop. J.K.,

welcome to the show.

Thanks for our being on.

And listeners, we want to hear from you.

What do you think it would actually take to get the worst speeders off New York City streets?

Call with your suggestions at 212-433 WNYC.

That's 212-33-9-6-9-2.

J-K, how many super-speeters are we actually talking about?

And how much of the city's total speeding problem do they account for?

So I think the official count is several hundred, I think, super speeders who, I believe the city or state defines as anyone who has received more than 16 camera-based speeding tickets in the past year or so.

The question of precisely how many there are is a little bit more difficult to answer

because so many drivers deliberately obscure or deface their plates, which frustrates the

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