Posted on 06/22/2005 5:43:24 PM PDT by wagglebee
In their attempt to curtail repeat sexual predators, some members of the City Council are taking a cue from the reality television show "Survivor" and trying to vote them off the island. A bill co-sponsored by 14 council members would effectively exile ex-convicts classified as medium- and high-risk sex offenders from Manhattan.
The legislation, written by the council's Republican leader, James Oddo of Staten Island, would bar Level 2 and Level 3 offenders from living, working, and "loitering" within a quarter-mile radius of schools, parks, playgrounds, and day-care centers. Violations would be punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $500.
An Oddo spokesman, Christopher DeCicco, said the minority leader has not commissioned a study to identify which sections of the city would lie outside proposed predator-free zones.
"That would be a big undertaking," Mr. DeCicco said.
In a few hours, using a ruler and a street map, The New York Sun blocked off areas of Manhattan that would be rendered off-limits to offenders under Mr. Oddo's bill.
South of Houston Street, nearly every square foot of Lower Manhattan, with the exception of a small sliver of land around the Fulton Fish Market, would apparently lie inside the predator-free zone. Convicted sex offenders might be allowed to live or work on several blocks in Midtown. But north of 54th Street, Manhattan could be completely off-limits. That is true even though the Sun's crude survey, while it included parks and many public schools, did not seek to track areas around day-care centers, private playgrounds, or some private schools.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Well, if you're not going to execute them or imprison them for life, then they're going to have to live SOMEWHERE when they get out. Who is the city of New York to say NIMBY?
Jersey.
Having produced them one wonders where Manhattanites intend to plant them.
They already export their toxic garbage, only makes sense that they would shove off their human debris on the rest of the nation as well.
so, they are going to send them to new jersey?
The ACLU would be all over this in a New York Minute
Doesn't exile to New Jersey constitute cruel and unusual punishment?
I think they should be exiled to the wealthy areas of Manhattan and given subsidized housing in the coops of the wealthy liberals. Why should these sex offenders associate with the poor and working classes or be marooned in the suburbs. In fact the sex offenders from the poor, working class and suburbs should be shipped to the to Manhattan and some of the other wealthier enclaves. The liberals can rehabilitate them and live with the results of their social engineering ideas.
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