From the Daily News:The city has agreed to pay $15 million to 22,000 New Yorkers — many of them homeless panhandlers — who were arrested for loitering using laws that were struck down decades ago.
The settlement was approved Monday in Manhattan Federal Court, lawyers said Tuesday.
The state’s anti-loitering law, passed in 1964, was ruled unconstitutional three times by state and federal courts in the 1980s and 1990s.
But the NYPD continued arresting beggars or hustlers under the statute for more than two decades. Most of those arrested lacked the resources to fight the charges.
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Yet the out-of-control transit police keep going out every night scooping up dozens of bodies for the most ridiculous minor offenses, while Iphones are being snatched off of passengers on a regular basis.
After lawyers fees, each wrongly arrested person will receive around $1.92
Their criminal records surely are not being corrected though, so they get to list 'prior arrest' on all job applications, and earn significantly less over their lifetimes, assuming they can even get hired.
Seems totally fair to me...
You think the cops do this on whim?It goes back to Kelly/bloomberg. It's all about numbers.........
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