These are good suggestions and must be implemented now!
A principle of operation must be: The penalties for a violation must be so frightening that any developer/builder/worker would be hyper-vigilent to prevent the violation.
Inspectors, supervisors, managers and commissioners in DOB must face penalties that will beggar them any time a complaint is mishandled/mismanaged.
An inspector is on the take? Fire the commissioner and all in the chain down to that inspector.
And inspector allows a violation? Same as above.
How is an inspector any less responsible for deaths and injuries that the cops involved in a faulty shootout? Cops go on trial with drumbeat regularity; why not inspectors and the chain of command?
What to do about the DOB? Gowanus Lounge has an answer:
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Wow - enact the 12 cures - no looking back, a safer NY for the future without Pols chewing on the fat of the people.
I'd add a 13th and make it a baker's dozen.
ALL BUILDING INSPECTORS (
maybe all DOB employees)
are to be POLYGRAPHED (let's say 4 times a year)
to insure that they're not crooks.
In the early 1990s....
NYC did a "SWEEP" and arrested 14 building inspectors for bribe taking etc(9 from Queens).
This was followed by a second wave
of house cleaning of the DOB.
THIS IS WHY WE HAVE A SHORTAGE
OF INSPECTORS TO THIS DAY!
It seems you can't win for trying.
Either we have a sufficient number of crooked inspectors or we have a few honest (?) ones.
These are good suggestions and must be implemented now!
A principle of operation must be: The penalties for a violation must be so frightening that any developer/builder/worker would be hyper-vigilent to prevent the violation.
Inspectors, supervisors, managers and commissioners in DOB must face penalties that will beggar them any time a complaint is mishandled/mismanaged.
An inspector is on the take? Fire the commissioner and all in the chain down to that inspector.
And inspector allows a violation? Same as above.
How is an inspector any less responsible for deaths and injuries that the cops involved in a faulty shootout? Cops go on trial with drumbeat regularity; why not inspectors and the chain of command?
COMPLETE OVERHAUL!
The Dirty Ol' Bastards a.k.a DOB should be tried ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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