Sentences with phrase «off street»

After school programs are important because they keep kids off the street and enhance their education, he said.

She says it's an indication that new strategies for getting people off the street are working.

Since this program started in 2008, it has been responsible for taking over 6,000 guns off the street of the five boroughs.»

Senator Gillibrand announced a bill on Sunday that will make gun trafficking a federal crime and provide tools to law enforcement to get illegal firearms off the street.

More than 1200 guns have been taken off the street, thanks to the Bronx gun buy - back program held this past Saturday.

«So [a] dangerous felon now off the street and another firearm off the street all the result of very huge police work by two rookie police officers, who I am pleased to have as members of the New York City Police Department,» Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said.

Police cordoned off the street with crime scene tape as officers surrounded and searched the house.

The usually cordoned - off street will host a party for 100 revellers to celebrate the Royal Wedding.

Boss Sharpton should just tell Mayor Putz to let the NYPD do its job and get the illegal guns off the street.

Closing off a street requires mayoral approval, which led Woerner to accuse Hizzoner of playing favorites.

«She said she wants to work to get illegal guns off the street and said it's been part of her work as an elected official to strengthen laws to keep America safe.

We have to get them off the street.»

They also are hoping to persuade state legislators to provide money for rewards and to safeguard witnesses who supply information, as well as to get illegal weapons off the street.

These are usually supporters of the politician who are drawn in from local functions or they are people who simply walk in off the street and volunteer their time.

It provides 24 - hour cover to customers paying a monthly subscription, and also offers a consultation to anyone walking off the street at a cost of # 100.

Dozens of alleged members of one of Syracuse's most notorious gangs are off the street following Operation Bricktown, the first series of arrests in an initiative from the New York state attorney general's office to get drugs off the streets.

I imagine such a move would be at as wildly popular with the public as the question of whether or not your average man or woman off the street should be able to vote for their legislators; last night YouGov put support for an elected Lords at around 75 %.

It's designed to stop more serious crimes by getting thugs off the street — and the subways — while they're committing «minor» crimes, before they graduate to more serious ones.

The developer subsequently proposed a 10 - foot - wide Lot Along East 88th Street, allowing it to move the building's entrance off the street and to add landscaping.

Saratoga County Sheriff Michael Zurlo said he would «not harass law - abiding citizens» and «not commit resources by taking deputies off the street to enforce this SAFE Act provision.»

«Bobby's not going to just give a speech and say, «We need to get guns off the street.»

«We should do everything in our power to give all survivors of child sexual abuse their day in court, as well as get predators off the street and behind bars,» he said.

And, he says, close loopholes and help law enforcement more effectively take dealers off the street.

«I believe that the commanding officers in these precincts, when they recognize that they have bad actors, they should be able to bench them keep them off the street,» she told the Observer.

Compare this to the hundred or so guns a precinct such as the Four - Six seizes each year, and you get an idea how effective the program is at getting guns off the street.

It is only through new enforcement tools and regulations that we will be able to take this dangerous drug off the street.

When Cuomo can get the drugs that have been banned since 1914 off the street, I will jump on his bandwagon with this foolish agenda

NYC workers and cops persuaded more than 100 homeless people to get off the street overnight into yesterday as the temperature plummeted below zero — but at least one man talked police into letting him stay.

Police precincts across NYC are reportedly calling off their planned annual festivities because they can't afford to take officers off the street while protests against police brutality continue to crop up almost nightly.

We're not interested in gamblers coming in off the street to gamble.»

Pushed to say what she would do for addicts, the assemblywoman said while Albany «has done a great job» at allocating resources to addiction treatment, they have been «reactive,» and she would be «proactive» by getting dealers off the street before they get the addicts.

It makes ZERO sense, even if he had the $ 10K to file, that any Joe Schmo off the street could win a major party nomination FOR THE SENATE without even campaigning.

It may be prepared to budge an inch on the role of lay members - or «blokes off the street» - but there will be no meaningful change.

«I mean, taking medical marijuana off the street and giving it to patients is not my idea of a health initiative,» Astorino said.

Mr. Banks said combining HRA and DHS would mean streamlined services to get people off the street and into shelter, out of shelter and into permanent housing and to prevent people struggling to hold onto their apartments from winding up homeless.

The DOT this morning announced it would place concrete barriers along the stretch of road where the family's car, a Honda Pilot, veered off the street and into a non-public area of the Bronx Zoo.

What ensued was a proper, gloves - off street fight of a campaign where Coyne's team hammered away on deeply personal issues that were hard to come back from once thrown into the open.

«Millions of homes in the UK do not have off street parking, so this funding is important to help local councils ensure that all their residents can take advantage of this revolution.»

Individuals who hold valuable intelligence, crucial for solving crime and taking knives off the street, are unlikely to share it with a police force that they feel does not have their best interests at heart.

She said: «We need to get this killer off the street.

The authors did not test random women off the street.

Get off the street corners.

They teach people how to take care of their families, they bring kids off the street and into safe havens, and they shower people in a love they may have never known.

People say things they wouldn't normally say to a friend, colleague, or stranger right off the street.

Three years after the Illinois General Assembly passed a law intended to make stepping off street corners safer, police reports indicate some Orland Park pedestrians still prefer crossing in the middle of the block.

The center should be secure, as well, so strangers can't just walk in off the street.

In some communities, teens are required by law to be off the street by a certain time each evening.

«We could be getting kids off the street and working as landscapers.»

Doctor: Gives a long explanation of why this is not necessarily true, starting with the point that the MWs are not affiliated with the hospital and so when you do transfer, they have to treat you like a patient off the street.

You can't just haul someone in from off the street and do a C / S... there are things that have to be known and done to make a mom ready for surgery.