Deja vu all over again.
It doesn't end well folks.
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 today—but they can still get a summons.
Unless it’s “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 seat—and 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 don’t 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. “Today’s 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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Ouch.
“You Won’t Get Arrested for Public Boozing (or Urinating) in Manhattan Anymore”
That’s all Manhattan is good for anyway.
NYC amendment 10 article 1
The right of public consumption of alcohol, public urination, littering and riding between subway cars or taking up more than one subway seat in the city of
New York shall not be infringed.
Yeah, "inquiring minds... etc."
Regards,
NYC, the new Calcutta.
“(Voice Over: That was Donald Trump a little over two years ago, endorsing [Marxist] Bill de Blasio for New York Mayor)”
That’s a good example of the low life things you have to do
to do business in New York. After all that’s where all the
suckers with the big bucks are. Endorse a Marxist and make
a billion or snub a Marxist and make jack.
“Can you squat in front of a police officer and poop?”
I don’t see why not. Actually in New York you’d be hard pressed
to find a clean spot to “cop” a “squat”. The whole town
is full of it anyway. Soon New York will be ground
zero for new mutations of the flue virus superseding
China as the worlds biggest open sewer.
Deja vu all over again.
It doesn't end well folks.
The laws in England were changed years ago. When you walk near pubs at midnight, there are women passed out from drink on the large pavements. I once had to step over a prone body. It’s like a Hogarth print. In fact, there’s talk of cracking down on drink and returning to the old-fashioned pub hours.
I’ve never seen that in Manhattan. My Manhattan apartment has an Irish pub three stores down on 2nd Avenue. When I get out of the taxi late on a Saturday night, it’s amazing how well-behaved everyone is coming out. Also, congregating on the sidewalk, drunk, does not occur.
you folks in N.Y. get what you deserve.
You elect garbage for a mayor, you deserve garbage.
Oh, come on, this is nothing - they’ve had the same rule in congress for decades.
Any relation to Jimmy Carter's Cyrus Vance?
And once that proves profitable, it won’t be long before rape w/o beating is a $700 fine and with a beating brings it to $1100 for the fine. Manslaughter starts at $60 and capital murder can go as high as $25000 if the victim is a Democrat...if the victim is a Republican, then the first time is a warning.
The public library will be a party!
My husband used to refer to the closing hour (in Britain) as ‘chucking out time’. We tried to never be driving around at ‘chucking out time’ as it was dangerous to be on those narrow roads with all those who had been imbibing.
Funny how life inmates art. I enjoy watching Blue Bloods with Tom Selleck. Last weeks episode Sellecks character (Police Chief) was going round and round with Lefty NYC Mayor over the same issues.
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