NY Post
City officials covered up nearly 120 “serious incidents” at homeless shelters by downgrading their severity so they wouldn’t have to be disclosed to state regulators, according to the city Department of Investigation.
The DOI conducted a yearlong probe into allegations that the Department of Homeless Services wasn’t “adequately” reporting arrests and other problems to the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, which is responsible for ensuring that shelters are safe.
The investigation revealed that DHS created its own “priority codes” that minimized “life-threatening injuries,” mental-health emergencies and some arrests of residents, visitors or staffers, according to an April 8 DOI memo obtained by The Post.
There were “approximately 117 internal reports” from January through June 2017 that contained information that should have been reported, the memo said.
City Councilman Ritchie Torres (D-The Bronx), who tipped off DOI to the situation, told The Post,
“There’s only one word for the conduct of DHS: inexcusable.”
“DHS adopted a dubious definition of serious incidents that it knew would lead to the under-reporting of incidents consisting of serious injuries, mental health emergencies, arrests and situations affecting the safety of its own residents and staff,” Torres said.
NY Post
Security at the city’s homeless shelters is so shoddy that
one Harlem facility had its own in-house heroin dealer, according to
records and fed-up workers.
Parkview Inn resident Alice Cuesta, 52, was finally busted
last month with 60 glassines of heroin after clumsily dropping them
right in front of an NYPD sergeant inside the elevator at the West 110th
Street shelter, prosecutors said court papers.
Before her fateful fumble, Cuesta had held free rein at the
shelter “for a long time,” law-enforcement and DHS sources told The
Post — adding that the situation is similar at shelters across the city.
Security gaps, as well as overworked DHS officers who simply don’t have the time, training or help to conduct thorough investigations, have left some residents wondering if they wouldn’t be better off taking their chances on the street.
9 comments:
THE FLOOD GATES HAVE OPENED !!
Maybe Charlane should have spent some of that Mental Health boondoggle in the City Shelters.
Why didn't she?
And where in the dickens was Billy Boy when all this drug dealing was going on?
Who was benefiting by purposely ignoring this situation?
No wonder homeless people would rather be on the street than in a "shelter".
And who decides who gets the contracts to "manage" these shelters?
It would be a valuable piece of the puzzle to know the name or names of the person or persons who signed off on these contracts and who their direct bosses are.
Perhaps an election will uncover the scandals that have been festering under the surface for all these Dumblasio years.
We are, after all, in the Age of Aquarius.
Charlane who? Was anyone elected to office called Charlane?
Looks like DeBozo takes some of the good stuff himself.
Why isnt Marcia Kramer from CBS2 all over this?? This story could lead to Diblazz's impeachment !!
Maybe their pharmacist, don't jump to conclusions
"And where in the dickens was Billy Boy when all this drug dealing was going on? "
He was most likely in Iowa, running for President
Why not make Riker's Island into one big homeless shelter for NYC?
DeBlasio is horrendous. People have worked all their lives to live in a decent community free from crime and free from fear. They have a right to live in a nice neighborhood, and not have the property values drop because a huge homeless shelter is placed right in the heart of their community. It is obvious that many of the homeless are those with histories of significant drug abuse, criminal, and mental problems. That is why they are homeless in most instances. Nobody wants to walk the streets in fear of being accosted by panhandlers or worse. What about people being responsible for their own lives and well-being? Rational citizens know that they must work to improve their lives. Why must hard-working, law-abiding citizens have to hand over their hard-earned money to support people who don't carry their own weight? DeBlasio bends over so far to cater to minorities and ridiculous left-wing causes that he is ruining the middle class that has built and supported this great country of ours. No more jails? No more bail? Good idea. Let people commit crimes
with impunity. That should improve the quality of life in our city. Put jails in our communities? Another great idea. Why not just hand the city over to the low lives, and to hell with the decent people? Why not honor Billie Holliday and to hell with Mother Cabrini? That makes sense. Why not vote for AOC and Ilhan Omar? Let's take our country and rip it to shreds. Forget the capitalist system which has made the US the greatest economic power in history. Let's support people in the Middle East that cut people's heads off. That makes sense. Forget our history. Forget respect for our flag. Washington was a terrorist. Jefferson was a slave owner. Columbus was a murderer. The new immigrants to our country herd together and take pleasure in mistreating the people who have lived here all their lives. While early immigrants had to abide by the immigration laws, these new immigrants claim that they are entitled to flood our nation in violation of the immigration laws. Who are the gangs? The MS13, and other Hispanic trouble makers that destroy what is left of our quality of life. We must act before it is too late. At the ballot box. Otherwise, the great American experiment will wind up on the dung heap of history.
On Rikers a pack of cigarettes is $200.from the gaurds,
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