Sentences with phrase «decriminalized public urination»

The outraged officials include six members of the council's Progressive Caucus, which last year helped push thorough legislation that decriminalized public urination and a host of other quality - of - life offenses.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito denied that New Yorkers ever voluntarily relieve themselves in public, as she led the City Council today in decriminalizing public urination and a host of other low - level infractions today.

Not exact matches

Malliotakis described the «irony of Mayor de Blasio» as simultaneously seeking to decriminalize or legalize behaviors they see as worth punishing, such as public urination, but «want [ing] to punish the punitive (sic) hardworking person that's just trying to drive to work in the morning.»

While Police Commissioner Bill Bratton initially criticized the proposal, he is reportedly in talks with the speaker to decriminalize, among other offenses, drinking in public — but not urination.

Mayor de Blasio expressed strong reservations Wednesday about a council plan to decriminalize common low - level offenses, such as public urination and turnstile - jumping.

Most contentious of all is Ms. Mark - Viverito's proposal to decriminalize a range of low - level offenses like public urination.