Posted on 03/01/2016 7:29:39 PM PST by Beave Meister
Go ahead and pop the champagne: the NYPD will no longer arrest most people who are caught drinking alcohol in public in Manhattan, the city announced todaybut they can still get a summons.
Unless its necessary for public safety reasons, the NYPD will no longer arrest people for certain low-level offenses in Manhattan, including public consumption of alcohol, public urination, littering and riding between subway cars or taking up more than one subway seatand Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. will no longer prosecute those infractions, his office said today. Offenders can still receive summonses, which require them to pay a fine but dont give them a criminal record, for those offenses. Summonses are already an option for this offenses, and are often given to violators who do not have a warrant.
Using summonses instead of arrests for low-level offenses is an intuitive and modern solution that will help make sure resources are focused on our main priority: addressing threats to public safety, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement. Todays reforms allow our hardworking police officers to concentrate their efforts on the narrow group of individuals driving violent crime in New York City. This plan will also help safely prevent unnecessary jail time for low-level offenses.
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The inmates have taken over the asylum. I’m glad I left New York after 50 years.
I haven’t worked in the city in 8 years. live on staten island.
heard it’s FALLING APART again after all of Rudy’s hard work.
Come back Rudy and stay in office till your last day!
and if my wife gets hurt in Manhattan by any piece of ####, jail will be the safest place for him/it.
But they bust heads for selling cigarettes? Guess you can tax pee.
Broken windows, here we come!
I would ask if this is some kind of joke but I know better.
Note to Billie: Guiliani attached the horrible crime problem in New York by minor crimes. If people know they cannot get away with small stuff, they will parlay that into the big stuff.
You have just opened the door for more crime in NYC. Nice job. /s
All to kill off Capitalism and anyone who would visit there to spend money. I’m glad to have spent a couple of great, long weekends there in the 80’s and 90’s. Not now. Will avoid. Until sanity prevails.
Since when is drinking alcohol in public a crime? That’s just weird.
Manhattan is not that big a drinking town, actually. Whenever I visit London and see the drunk kids on the sidewalk in the west end, I’m always reminded of how unrowdy Manhattan is on a Friday or Saturday night. So public drinking is not really a huge problem at all. Public urination among the homeless? That’s a problem!
Yup. Giuliani and Bratton got tons of well-deserved praise for the broken windows approach. It absolutely worked.
Now the politicians want to do the exact opposite. Because they are evil.
Drinking on public streets and sidewalks is illegal in New York.
Even if the cops don’t arrest you any more, they’ll still empty your can or glass into the gutter, and give you a ticket.
Ahhhh,,, the 70s are coming back.
Muzzies do it all the time so no problems. We urinate where someone can see it and Boom: Obscene predators list.
What about poop? Can you squat in front of a police officer and poop?
Undoing everything Rudy put in place.
In many cities open container laws (drinking in public) have long been in place.
Urinating and crapping in many parts of New York City would be considered an urban renewal initiative.
There was a Blue Bloods episode just last week about this sort of thing. Of course, Tom Selleck talked the City Council out of doing something so stupid by convincing them that crime would soar and they would be held accountable. Too bad DiBlasio is so stupid, along with Cyrus Vance (obviously another stupid Dem).
New York values.
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