Just because you're the deputy Mayor it doesn't mean you get to play with the siren:

One of [New York City] Mayor Bloomberg's top deputy mayors will have the lights and sirens stripped from her car after she was caught by a television crew abusing them to get to work faster.

My mom was a city councilman (person?) long time ago in our old home town. As little as Dumas Arkansas was (pop. 6400), the stunts the local government would pull were much worse than what you normally hear coming out of a place like NYC. Big fish, meet small pond, etc.