Thursday, April 30, 2015
City Council wants to decriminalize certain offenses
From CBS 2:
Turnstile jumping and public urination are still expected to be treated as crimes warranting an arrest, but a host of minor offenses such as drinking in public are expected to be treated administratively rather than criminally.
The changes would come under planned adjustments to the city’s quality of life laws being worked out by Mayor Bill de Blasio, police Commissioner Bill Bratton, and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, sources said.
The last line of this report is classic. Why ask for ID? Use the honor system!
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Decriminalize Ugly and Vivorito will be first in line 🙈
Regarding the last line of the CBS piece: "...to be worked out..." I suspect that obtaining an ID will be where Bratton wins out.
Speaking about one of those offense that would be decriminalize, riding a bicycle on a sidewalk: Today's NY Post reports that the cops stopped such a rider, searched him and found a stolen loaded gun on him.
Here is a link to the story:
http://nypost.com/2015/04/30/cops-find-stolen-gun-during-quality-of-life-stop/
She and any other Council Member who supports this are nuts and need to resign!
She is a fool and too busy walking all over the First Amendment and bragging about having a STD to legislate.
I propose a new law requiring anyone running for mayor or city council must be born in NYC.
The City has been, for the most part, extremely lax on sidewalk bicycle riding enforcement. Doing away with offenses such as these will bring the City back to where it was in the 70s. Disgusting.
The city is only lax about these rules when you're not in the ghetto. If you're in east new york, and you're riding a bike down the street and pull onto the sidewalk to stop at a store, you may very well be arrested by a cop on a nearby foot post who is desperate to make his one arrest per month quota.
Don't tell me this doesn't happen because a good friend of mine on the job had to do that more than once to make his numbers for the month.
ID should be required, jail - absolutely not. Rikers is full of people who did next to nothing (peeing in an alley in a city with no public bathrooms). The numbers don't lie. I'm sorry but you're a raving white lunatic racist if you think filling rikers with petty crooks makes you safe from anything.
Ultimately you're paying higher taxes for this racist 'service' that does more harm than good.
Of course they do. All their relatives are in Rikers-- their baby mommas and baby daddys, and aunties and uncles. The city council are garbage and related to garbage.
Interesting, after 12 years of Bloomberg NYC was supposed have hundreds of public restrooms that you paid a quarter to use. Yet nothing. At the same time, public urination is a serious quality of life issue.
Could I be losing my mind I actually think the Speaker is making sense.
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