Posted on 07/15/2015 12:55:10 PM PDT by QT3.14
Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (left) is moving forward with a controversial plan to decriminalize such offenses as urinating in public — part of an effort to rollback on criminal offenses used by police to stop and detain suspects under the “broken windows” approach of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton. Critics have charged that the murder rate and other crimes are already up under Mayor Bill de Blasio due to the tensions with police and new policies against stop and frisk maneuvers.
Mark-Viverito appears to believe that criminalizing urination is only a pretext for police stops or a minor offense for the city. Most citizens are likely to disagree. First, there are the health issues of human waste in the street. Second, there are the economic issues of a major tourism location that will now treat urination as a minor matter subject to a summons, which is unlikely to be honored. Finally, given the large number of homeless people and drinkers in New York, the decriminalization of this offense could trigger a urine tsunami as Mark-Viverito removes the threat of arrest.
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Forward!
That's gonna help.
De Blasio doesn’t know what he is doing. Being mayor is above his pay grade (competency).
why not legalize sh*tting on the trains (and sidewalks), too?
what’s with these cowardly, half-steps?
let’s make sure NYC self-destructs ......before O’s Iranian IslamoNazi pals nuke it anyway (with the bombs and ICBM’s he’s making sure they have)...
The destruction of New York by communists continues..
When I visited NYC in 1977, Times Square was lined with pornography shops and the subway cars were covered with graffiti. Seems Mayor Di Blasio wants to bring back those good old days.
Did you leave off the sarcasm tag?
“dumbing down”
More like scumming down....So you piss on the street its OK?
We have a sewer system for health reasons not convenience.Out here on my 32 it don’t matter.
In the city with kids and pets and all others walking around say hello to disease.
Sounds like DeBlasio wants to make us 3rd world sooner than later.
Jumping turnstiles.guess what thats stealing
I didn’t think I needed one, since my statement was so obviously absurd if interpreted literally.
Turnstile jumping used to be a near-death penalty offense in New York.
The Michael Brown/Ferguson Effect continues apace...
What a lovely mental picture.
Criminalizing Turnstile jumping is RACIST because we all know ‘white men can’t jump’.
New York City to become the New York City in Escape From New York ?
Keep it classy, NYC.
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots.
If there’s a Jonathon Turley ping list could you add me? The guy’s a national treasure... (and yeah, I know he’s a dem)
They should get a bunch of homeless people to go and urinate on his office desk, floor, furniture, computers, etc.
Then they should go to his house and urinate on the floor and furniture in every room.
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