Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Homeless to be booted from subway
From CBS:
New York City’s top cop has a tough strategy for dealing with the homeless who try to catch some shut-eye on trains, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported.
“Subways are not for sleeping, and I wish we could have people understand that,” Bratton said.
As the mercury plummets and the homeless find it might be just a tad too cold to bathe in the fountains in Columbus Circle — as was seen in photos that surfaced in July — or sleep on the streets, the police commissioner wants the homeless to know they should go to city shelters, not the subway.
“Subways are not homeless shelters, and the homeless will not be allowed to congregate in them,” Bratton said. “The city has more than adequate shelters in other facilities.”
As the NYPD begins training thousands of cops to deal with the homeless, Bratton made it clear he doesn’t even want the homeless on station platforms.
“The homeless will not be allowed to take up residence on the platforms or on the subway cars,” he said.
The city said it’s doing all it can to find places for the homeless who want to take up residence on the city’s mass transit system.
A spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio said that since July 2014, the city has “moved 773 chronically homeless individuals from the subway into transitional and permanent housing as well as to shelter and other programs. We continue to add case managers and clinicians to assist those on our streets.”
18 comments:
One less homeless democrat tonight,after murdering a cop in Harlem an hour ago,
DiBlasios hate toward police just gave a BLM thug the balls to shoot an officer in the far head
DiBlasios has blood on his hands,tell us again Mr mayor how you told your son blacks are killed by white cops,4 dead cops in ny in less than a year?
All murdered by blacks,NYPD needs to stand down and let the murder rare skyrocket until late the mayor kisses the PBAS assistance in time square
He can start cleaning out Jamaica-Sutphin, Union Tpke, and Forest Hills 71Av.
So
Do you think he will be around for the funeral???
Bullshirt. No one is going to be booted from anywhere. The subways will continue to be the toilet and storage locker and flop house for the depraved and lunatic and homeless, until they disappear. And you know when that will be...
Great! More homeless back on the street.
Hats off to Bratton if he follows through with it.
Doesn't Marcia Kramer look great for a 90-year old babe?
NYC is a magnet for illegals and homeless.
Go to São Paulo Brazil. A friend lives there. He says that stepping over the homeless in the streets is SOP.
Nobody even thinks about it.
This will just be used as an excuse to give napping commuters a ticket. Homeless people taking up an entire car because no one can breathe near them won't be bothered.
Doesn't Marcia Kramer look great for a 90-year old babe?
I thought she was only 70...
Can you say build more hotels, I mean more shelters???
winter is coming and it will be a cold one!
How is homelessness a police problem? Where are all the libs to help?
If they are going to round up the homeless (and from what I saw in just 1 hour yesterday at the end of the work day, bratton's talking shit again) then slap the cuffs on them and send them to jail. This ill-advised plan is going to bring more lawsuits against the NYPD, which doesn't seem to care about the consequences of excessive and arbitrary use of force.
Despite the mental issues a bulk of these homeless have, I am certain that if the shelters were properly managed and maintained, these derelicts would be there instead of stinking up the trains and obstructing paths on the platforms.
This looks like another case of going after simple offenses when the bigger crimes are
being done in air-conditioned and now that the seasons here, heated offices. In addition to trying to make the city less upsetting to the neo-tourists and neo-citizens who are saturating this town.
And as for there being plenty of shelters, hows about placing them in these vacant luxury condos that exist or are in construction.
When this goes horribly wrong-and it WILL, knowing this administration- remember that this is the brainchild of the Police Commissioner and the puppet masters at City Hall, not the rank and file cop on the street. Remember that, when they all want hang some poor cop for carrying out Bratton's "get tough" homeless plan.
Let's put money in the pockets of homeless so they wouldn't have to be on the Subway and there isn't any better way then doing that aside from bringing Bumfights to New York.
They are schizophrenics who wandered when they forgot to take their meds, and they got that way by abusing drugs or alcohol
Implanted continuous infusion of clozapene and GPS monitors should be mandated for anyone found homeless more than twice.
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