Posted on 08/16/2013 6:58:14 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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?’”
But residents who live within the confines of NYCHA buildings said the mayor’s fingerprinting idea goes too far.
“That’s like invading someone’s privacy or something. Why you want to fingerprint somebody? It is bad enough you get arrested, you get finger printed, so why you want to fingerprint us? Now Bloomberg needs to get a job. Get out of here already. He’s done. Bloomberg is done,” Chelsea Houses resident Nino Alayon said.
“Why? For what? We live here all these years, I mean, what seems to be the problem? This is not jail,” added Deborah Gatling of the Chelsea Houses.
“I don’t feel that that’s right. Fingerprinted for what?” resident Alberta Hale added.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
"Something tells me that most of them are fingerprinted already."
Oh heck...just go ahead and put a micro-chip in every New Yorker.
It’s “for the children”
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Put me in charge of food stamps. Food Stamp ATM cards could only be used for food without the ability to get cash. No money for junk food, alcohol, tobacco, or sodas - just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, alcohol or tobacco, then get a job.
Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV, Xbox 360 or a cell phone, then get a job and your own place.
In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It might be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing or whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims, low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and use that $$ to reduce the debt.
Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money youhave to accept our rules. Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin "self-esteem," consider that it wasn't all that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self-esteem.
If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make those bad choices.
AND while you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes, that is correct, since voting would be a conflict of interest. You will abstain from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then GET A JOB.
Bloomberg is a blooming fascist. Please tell him to get out of Colorado
AND have random, monthly drug tests for every recipient of government money. Those who test positive would have their government money revoked for eight months.
Great post from the web site. Reminds me of the rarely quoted verse, “if a man will not work, he shall not eat.”
Bloomberg is a blooming fascist. Please tell him to get out of Colorado
Cuba or North Korea?
Mr Bloomberg is quite the controller. New Yorkers must love him.
In Cuba or North Korea, if you don't work, you don't have a place to live, you don't eat, and so on. Public housing residents in NYC get free digs without having to work for it, unless having a pulse is considered working.
Actually, he is fairly conservative in the traditional sense of the word, which eschews laissez faire and libertinism in favor of societal curbs on errant individual behavior. Fascism requires that a people be united via bonds of blood and soil. That's a physical impossibility in multi-racial and -ethnic New York City. Ultimately, he's clamping down on black and Hispanic criminals in NYC while couching it in ethnically neutral terms.
Good idea, but ACLU will jump on this issue in favor of the criminal elements that inhabit public housing projects.
“AND while you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes, that is correct, since voting would be a conflict of interest. You will abstain from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then GET A JOB.”
If they want government assistance, they will also have to get a voter ID card.
That will explode the heads on the left.
If govt. can require such intrusions for welfare, they can require them for govt.-funded retirement programs as well.
Fixed it for you, Rudybot. ;)
Been tried in two states -- the welfare recipients had lower positives than the general population. And the tests cost more than the savings. Program dropped.
600,000 people in NYC are living in public housing ???
How is this sustainable??
And they are damn skippy correct...except for one part (IMHO): violation of ‘Rights’. It is not the gov’t $$, it is the TAXPAYER $$. That ‘charity’ comes from the end of a gun. Don’t like the new rules, tough sh!te.
LOVE the barracks idea. Good enough for your (wo)men, good enough for the brood mares and the like. BARE minimum and ‘free’ cleaning of parks, streets, rest stops, etc.
Yep, that last part’d get ‘em off ‘assistance’ damn quick
He can get their fingerprints offa discarded jumbo sodas.
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