NYC - Touch a Traffic Cop, Spend 7 Years In Jail

Attacking a New York City traffic enforcement agent is now a felony, beginning this week, with a maximum sentence of seven years in prison. So far, there have been 50 attacks on traffic agents in 2008, compared with 60 attacks in total in 2007.

Fun fact: the small army of 2,800 NYC traffic enforcement agents undergo 12 weeks of training before they’re assigned a “beat”