Saturday, August 17, 2013

Bloomberg pushing the fingerprinting of NYCHA residents


From CBS New York:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest crime-fighting idea had a lot of people riled up on Friday.

The mayor wants to fingerprint more than 600,000 people who live in public housing. He said it would be done to make the projects safer.

Bloomberg was responding to questions about Federal Judge Shira Schendlin’s ruling on the stop-and-frisk program when the topic shifted to security and the New York City Housing Authority. Bloomberg said there has to be a way to make the projects safer.

“Five percent of our population lives in NYCHA housing, 20 percent of the crime is in NYCHA housing – numbers like that. And we’ve just got to find some way to keep bringing crime down there. And we have a whole group of police officers assigned to NYCHA housing,” Bloomberg said. “The people that live there, most of them, want more police protection. They want more people. If you have strangers walking in the halls of your apartment building, don’t you want somebody to stop and say, ‘Who are you, why are you here?’”

Needless to say, there was a lot of finger-pointing at Mayor Bloomberg on Friday. The notion of fingerprinting 620,000 people in public housing — even with the best of intentions of making buildings safer — caught a lot of New York City residents off guard.

“What we really should have is fingerprinting to get in, since there’s an allegation that some of the apartments aren’t occupied by the people who originally have the lease,” Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show.


I guess he means like this guy. There's also Bloomberg's plan for market rate housing between the projects.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

What Bloomberg is asking to be done is nothing compared to what citizens are required to do under ObamaCare.

Anonymous said...

Whats wrong with just having an ID card to swipe??
Like going ino an office building...

Anonymous said...

NYCHA population is about 7.3% of the city, but who's counting...

Also, NYCHA pays the NYPD about $75 million for their special patrols. Can't imagine though how he will push this one through. It's going to be expensive and generate a lot of backlash.

Anonymous said...

38% of violent crimes committed in 2012 happened on NYCHA property!

Anonymous said...

The problem with keys and keycards is that they can be given to others for illegal entrance into the building.

Fingerprint access cannot be duplicated or given to another. Only problem with it is the sabotaging of the reader. Like all electronics it can be easily broken and disabled.

Anonymous said...

You need to be fingerprinted to get a liquor license, why can't you be fingerprinted to accept public housing. Of course the usualidiots are spewig the usual catch phrases, "invasion of privacy" etc.

Bnc626 said...

They should send back all the illegals that live in public housing while they are finger printing.

Anonymous said...

Fingerprint and DNA everybody. If folks knew how bastartd they were, they woul dnot be racist.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Fingerprint and DNA everybody. If folks knew how bastartd they were, they woul dnot be racist.
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I think we should deport people who can't spell or use grammar correctly.

Anonymous said...

For Americans to get food stamps and the Food Stamp EBT card they have to be photographed and fingerprinted. Not so with illegal aliens. Ever wonder why that pregnant Ecuadorean woman with the five children has a food stamp card with no photograph? yeah, me too. I wonder why she didn't have to be photographed AND fingerprinted, is an illegal alien yet gets US government benefits.

Most of the NYCHA residents are on food stamps, their fingerprints are on record in an HRA database. What is the big deal. Yes fingerprint them all.
Don't give government housing to illegal immigrants, their children or their elderly relatives and/or people from their country who are pretending to be their relatives.

Anonymous said...

For Sabbath-observant NYCHA residents, the electronic ID cards will be a problem.

Anonymous said...

Anyone living in the projects who is a problem has already been fingerprinted; when they have been arrested previously. I doubt there's many criminals who have never been run through the system.

Ned said...

Let them all kill each other and start over

Anonymous said...

"Them"??? Folks, "they" could well be us - check out the cost of rent! -or, if you own, insurance, water, utilities, taxes... New York is no longer affordable for most non-Bloomberg class people unless they have subsidies. I think this is a stupid waste of money, and distracts from the real problems in NYCHA.

Anonymous said...

If you want subsidized housing, why shouldn't you be fingerprinted? If I want to enlist to serve my country, I will be fingerprinted. If I want a gun permit, a food vending license, to work on a dock, to become a cop, firefighter or EMT I will be fingerprinted! Hell, I recall being fingerprinted for my licenses to sell insurance! If you don't want ot be fingerprinted, don't live in subsidized housing!

Anonymous said...

There's a mail carrier living in the Bland houses. If she was fingerprinted, that apartment would go to someone who cannot afford it, not someone making 90k per year!

Anonymous said...

including my comment you have 14 people out of 8,000,000 people riled up. look out mr. mayor this could be a landside.

Anonymous said...

Fingerprinting and biometric id are routine in the world outside of the subsidized housing. It being done because it is effective in keeping authorized people out.

If you don't let anyone enter your apartment because you have a lock on the door of your apartment, why not limit the access to the 200 apartments in the building to the people who are authorized to be there?