Twelve microphone-equipped cameras on New York streets logged 15,994 loud-vehicle events in 2025 and produced 1,691 summonses carrying $1,472,265 in penalties, of which $308,229 was actually paid, and thirteen of the twenty-five cameras the city’s own law requires were never bought.
The city's noise-enforcement cameras are catching thousands of offenders, but collecting pennies on the dollar from a fleet that's half the size it's supposed to be.