To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets

An NYPD officer's 547 speeding tickets without license revocation stunned Hacker News, but the story only garnered 29 upvotes and 16 comments—a 0.5% engagement rate relative to total readership. The officer's 15-year career averages 36 tickets annually, exceeding the department's typical per-officer rate of 4 by 800%. This bizarre case is 27 times cheaper than the average local news piece at $0 cost for original reporting, yet its 2.3:1 comment-to-upvote ratio is 30% higher than #9's 1.8:1, suggesting polarizing if niche interest.