Sentences with phrase «jails out of our neighborhoods»

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I heard of a woman today who got attacked by a dog, climbed a telephone pole, fell out of a tree, was yelled at by a police officer on a 911 call, got patched in to the State Police in New York, was almost arrested and sent to jail, trespassed on several people's property, hurtled fences and hedges in a mad dash through a neighborhood, and even convinced a former mayor of our town to call in some favors to the local power company.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.