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NYC City Council in talks to decriminalize minor offenses like open container and public [ed tr]
NY Daily News ^ | April 20, 2015 | Sarah Ryley

Posted on 04/20/2015 9:23:42 AM PDT by C19fan

A potential showdown is looming over a pair of City Council proposals that would decriminalize a host of offenses — including fare-beating, drinking on the street and public urination — in an overhaul that could dramatically impact the NYPD’s “broken windows” approach to policing.

The measures, still the focus of ongoing negotiations, could pit some Council members against Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who raised questions about the potential changes just last month.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s office is working on a proposal that would make some of the most common criminal court summonses civil charges instead. Violators would get a ticket to one of the city’s administrative courts, such as the Environmental Control Board, instead of criminal court. Cops could no longer make arrests for those offenses, and missed court dates would turn into default monetary judgments instead of warrants.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: broken; new; windows; york
If you never been to NYC I would recommend going now while the positive effects of the Giulani/Bloomberg policing are still evident. When these offenses against the social order were decriminalized during the 60s/70s NYC provided lots of material for Hollywood movies. Warriors come out and play.
1 posted on 04/20/2015 9:23:42 AM PDT by C19fan
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"— including fare-beating, drinking on the street and public urination —"

How long before you see posters appearing everywhere bearing a message something like this:

Street Party! Take the free bus to .... street every Saturday Night. BYOB. Drink, p*ss, repeat till you drop.

2 posted on 04/20/2015 9:42:55 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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Perfect way to lower your crime stats...lower the bar. I’m glad I don’t live in that socialist hellhole.


3 posted on 04/20/2015 9:50:57 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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Will they allow citizens to avoid paying cigarette taxes or parking tickets?


4 posted on 04/20/2015 9:52:00 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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Oh Joy! Another reason to never return to that sewer of town where I grew up.


5 posted on 04/20/2015 10:03:15 AM PDT by rllngrk33 (Things will continue getting worse until at least January 2017.)
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Hey NYC, try beating Kalifornia by changing the classification of your laws. Per prop 47, Grand Theft Auto in Kalifornia is now a misdemeanor
6 posted on 04/20/2015 10:12:04 AM PDT by drypowder
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Hey NYC, try beating Kalifornia by changing the classification of your laws. Per prop 47, Grand Theft Auto in Kalifornia is now a misdemeanor

No, it's not. Prop 47 said that Grand Theft is treated like a misdemeanor, only when the value of the stolen goods is less than $950.

7 posted on 04/20/2015 11:45:15 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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Then KSFO with Brian Sussman comments on that issue this morning were misreported.
8 posted on 04/20/2015 1:15:48 PM PDT by drypowder
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