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.
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.
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.