Sentences with phrase «cities cracking down»

I have read about all the cities cracking down on Airbnb.
Plus, with more states and cities cracking down on using cell phones while driving, this accessory gives you a way to take calls, hands - free.
Fare - beating is a commonly cited example of the success of Mr. Bratton's broken windows policing philosophy in the early 1990s — as the city cracked down on it, other crimes also fell.
SIOUX CITY Six years after Sioux City cracked down on pit bulls and vicious dogs, fewer people are reporting cases of dog bites.

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In its most recent scandal, Uber's use of the software «Greyball,» which was used to track authorities in cities that were cracking down on the app and have drivers avoid picking them up, has subjected the company to federal inquiry by the U.S. Department of Justice.
And now that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is cracking down on sanctuary cities, where immigrants can live without fear of local authorities turning them in to the federal government, these groups are vulnerable to the recent deportation raids.
Trump and Sessions have also pledged to crack down on «sanctuary cities» — typically localities that limit how local authorities can work with federal immigration agents — as a way of getting at drug traffickers and gangs.
Though Cisneros didn't indicate a specific reason why now, of all times, the city is cracking down on license - free drivers, San Francisco did finally get an online business registration system operational last month.
As U.S. authorities have cracked down on home - produced meth, the cartels have been breaking badder: inundating Chicago and other U.S. cities with extremely pure, relatively cheap meth straight from «superlabs» in Mexico.
Our city is attempting to crack down on these people, but some of them seem to persist in spite of efforts to document what they're doing.
The city is trying to crack down on them.
On Wednesday, President Trump made good on his promises to crack down on immigration and sanctuary cities.
Whereas against Stoke City, typically a hard nut to crack, the Hornets were unable to break down Mark Hughes «limited side after falling behind.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo rolled out 42 city mayors from around the state who support his plan to crack down on college sexual assault, but failed to win over the woman who leads the state's fifth largest city: Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.
The Post exposed the abuse as Mayor Bill de Blasio is in the process of trying to crack down on the misuse of city - issued parking placards.
New York Daily News article on the NYPD cracking down on a growing trend of illegal ATVs and dirt bikes in city streets, quoting BP Adams.
ALBANY, N.Y. — Governor Andrew Cuomo announced new state police patrols in the capital city on Tuesday, part of his new statewide initiative to crack down on gang violence.
De Blasio's plan received a cold embrace from some transit experts, several of whom feared that any enforcement - led traffic measure would fail on the basis that the NYPD has been largely ineffective in cracking down on offenses such as double parking, blocking the box or the abuse of city - issued parking placards.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber: «The speech contains important issues to welcome - restoring the state pension link with earnings, cracking down on high - risk activities in the City, and an extra push on green energy.
To help crack down on other boondoggles, Liu announced a new «waste hotline,» 212 - NO - WASTE, and a companion website where city employees, contractors and members of the public will be encouraged to report wasteful spending and fraud.
«The recent attacks of women in Central Park and Hudson River Park underscore the need to crack down on sexual predators and also underscores the need to help those who have tragically been victimized by these crimes, to help them become the survivors we know that they are,» Quinn said during a press conference at City Hall.
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, an Upper East Side Democrat, said Mr. de Blasio's aggressive attempt to crack down on the ride - sharing industry's growth doesn't jibe with the «spirit of the city
The city will be cracking down on scammers who have been targeting helpless homeowners who had their properties foreclosed, City Councilmen Leroy Comrie (D -city will be cracking down on scammers who have been targeting helpless homeowners who had their properties foreclosed, City Councilmen Leroy Comrie (D -City Councilmen Leroy Comrie (D - St.
Aronson echoed calls for Urstadt Law repeal (a popular stance among many city Democrats) and vowed to crack down on illegal hotels she alleged have been driving up housing prices in the area.
A City Council bill would force the apartment - sharing service to turn over the names and addresses of all its New York City hosts so officials can crack down on units with «violations» — even when those breaches have nothing to do with their Airbnb listing.
Authorities have more power to crack down on shops selling synthetic marijuana after the City Council voted unanimously to pass three bills aimed at halting the spread of the drug.
Good news: Top cop Bill Bratton appears to be keeping his vow to crack down on quality - of - life violations across the city.
From his time working at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration to his work on the City Council to reform 421a and end discrimination against Section 8 tenants to his work as Public Advocate to crack down on bad landlords, no one has done more to fight for affordable safe housing for all New Yorkers.»
The city's Campaign Finance Board says Mayor Bill de Blasio's outside nonprofit group did not break campaign finance laws, but the board chairwoman had tough words for the mayor Wednesday and urged city officials to crack down on groups like de Blasio's.
(CNN)- It's President Obama's first trip back to Chicago since his chief of staff stepped down to foray into the city's mayoral race, so naturally, he couldn't help but crack a joke about it.
With this new authority in hand, municipalities from Buffalo to New York City, the North Country to Long Island will be able to pass tough new laws to crack down on puppy mills and bad breeders who place profit above the health and safety of animals.
The city of Syracuse is cracking down on property owners who don't pay taxes.
The U.S. attorney for the Southern District has made a name for himself with his crusade against political corruption both in Albany and New York City, repeatedly chastising elected officials from Cuomo on down for not doing more to crack down on bad actors.
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The city of Syracuse is asking Onondaga County to help crack down down on burglaries.
«It will give our city another strong tool to crack down on illegal hotels and preserve affordable housing.»
Ms. Gillibrand's potential problems stem from a number of positions she held while in the House, including her support of gun rights and for cracking down on so - called sanctuary cities like New York that do not enforce all immigration laws.
City Hall staffers, some of whom have worked for de Blasio since he came into office, were recently asked to sign a confidentiality agreement to crack down on leaks.
Miami - Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez ordered jails to comply with federal requests to detain immigrants, citing Trump's executive order earlier this week cracking down on «sanctuary cities
Last week, the Mayor announced a citywide $ 32 million initiative that started last year at ten developments to crack down on the rodent problem across the city.
Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh's recent announcement to crack down on code violations falls in line with promises he made on the campaign trail to improve «quality of life» for city residents.
«Our communities must join forces with the New York Police Department to crack down on gun possession, get illegal weapons off the streets and spread the message that this kind of criminal activity has no place in our city,» Stringer said.
President Trump vowed to «crack down» on New York and the roughly 300 other cities that protect undocumented immigrants — including Chicago, San Francisco, Newark and New Haven, Conn. — during a speech at Department of Homeland Security headquarters on Wednesday.
Police officials were not commenting about a recent report by Investigative Post which suggests the city's Strike Force, formed by the mayor to crack down on gangs and drugs, have conducted some searches without proper cause.
Beginning next year, New York City will test a pilot program limiting curbside delivery in certain high - traffic commercial zones during peak hours — and will also crack down on drivers who block intersections — as part of the mayor's five - part plan to curb congestion.
The mayor fiercely defended his administration's refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in the majority of cases a day after Trump vowed to crack down on so - called «sanctuary cities
The city of Syracuse of looking to close its deficit by cracking down on unpaid parking violations.
The city Parks Department is cracking down on rogue drivers who illegally park on public lawns and other green spaces.
His office's official position is that they never pressed the Albany mayor's office to crack down, and that the city backed down on its own.
He emphasized that while it's «not illegal to be homeless,» and «those experiencing the very painful reality of being street homeless, they don't take any joy in it,» the city would promptly crack down on any criminal behavior.
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