Strict father morality: why New York gets “Vision Zero” enforcement wrong?

Vision Zero acknowledges that people in the traffic system make mistakes, therefore infrastructure should guide safe behavior and be forgiving. This means making it more difficult to speed, and designing intersections that protect people walking and biking.

Cars, trucks, and other motor vehicles cause the overwhelming majority of traffic injuries and fatalities in New York City. Yet the NYPD’s “Vision Zero” enforcement targets people on bikes. If their goal truly is zero traffic fatalities, shouldn’t all of their effort be marshaled toward preventing the most harmful vehicles from … harming?

I wonder if this is a case of “strict father morality” and authoritarianism. They see vehicles navigating a system not designed for them not following the rules of that system to a T, so they single them out for punishment. If NYPD is going to enforce, why not target the vehicles that statistically kill and injure the most people? To do otherwise and call it Vision Zero perverts the name and renders it meaningless.