Bonds, special elections and a ban
on public urination and defecation are scheduled to be discussed at the Hempstead Town Board meeting Tuesday.
The overwhelmingly Democratic Council voted in favor of each bill in the act by an overwhelming margin, with the measure
on public urination scraping closest: 39 in favor, 10 against.
Cracking down
on public urination, disorderly conduct and other low - level offenses doesn't lead to a decline in more serious crimes, a watchdog agency tasked with monitoring the NYPD said.
Not exact matches
As evidenced by numerous comments
on a YouTube Breastfeeding montage created by the League of Maternal Justice (in protest of the Facebook Photo bannings), people still compare
public breastfeeding to
public urination and masturbation, and insist that it's inappropriate for women to expose themselves in order to feed their children.
A decline in the City's quality of life is her overarching theme, with subway delays,
public urination, crippling traffic and increasing numbers of homeless people
on the street prime examples she offers of problems caused, or at least not adequately addressed, by Mayor de Blasio.
He also supported a series of criminal justice reforms that eliminated criminal penalties
on quality - of - life crimes like littering, loitering and
public urination.
And of course he handled the countless picayune issues that cross the desk of your average local elected official, like complaints about idling buses and
public urination at Dallas BBQ, overly stringent leash - law enforcement and illegal commercial traffic
on West End Avenue.
The other offenses Mark - Viverito is targeting —
public urination, cycling
on a sidewalk,
public consumption of alcohol, being in a park after hours and failing to obey a parking sign — fall under city administrative code and don't need the Legislature's OK to be changed.
The City Council
on Monday will introduce a set of bills calling for civil summonses for nonviolent quality - of - life offenses, such as
public urination and drinking, but cops would still decide...
Last week, Mark - Viverito unveiled plans to make six low - level crimes civil rather than criminal offenses:
public urination, biking
on the sidewalk,
public consumption of alcohol, being in a park after dark, failure to obey a park sign and jumping subway turnstiles.
«I think
public urination should be a criminal offense, it's a quality - of - life crime and as someone who just witnessed someone urinating not too far from here, I think it should remain a criminal offense,» Ms. James told the Observer, not elaborating
on the
urination event she said she had witnessed.
The City Council
on Monday will introduce a set of bills calling for civil summonses for nonviolent quality - of - life offenses, such as
public urination and drinking, but cops would still decide whether to make an arrest.
At an Association for a Better New York power breakfast
on Thursday morning, she blasted the mayor's quality of life record, insisting that his plan to tackle the city's homelessness crisis is insufficient, calling for a better plan to address mental health issues and complaining about
public urination.
«
Public urination is something that the mayor has given the green - light to,» Mayor de Blasio's GOP contender said during an interview
on the «Cats Roundtable» radio show
on 970 AM
on Sunday.
The officials also called
on the city to take a zero - tolerance approach in addressing quality - of - life issues, including
public urination and noisy drumming, which have disturbed residents and business owners around Zuccotti Park for the past seven weeks.
And we're doing something about that,» the mayor said during his weekly radio sit - down with WOR's John Gambling Friday, adding that officials were focusing
on complaints about
public urination.
Hempstead Town Board members
on Tuesday will vote
on scheduling a
public hearing
on a proposal to update the town's disorderly - conduct code to ban
public urination and defecation.
But the Daily News recently reported Ms. Mark - Viverito's office and Councilman Rory Lancman were considering several other crimes they believed might be better handled with civil punishments like tickets —
public alcohol consumption,
public urination, biking
on the sidewalk, being in a park after dark, disobeying a park sign, and littering.
In fact, from the green benefits of
public urination, through a
public urinal that feeds plants with pee, to peeing
on my garden mulch for fertilizer, some have argued I have a mild obsession with all things pee - related.
I suggested in my post
on peeing in
public that the ugly temporary urinals that spring up in British town centers to mitigate anti-social
urination would be a whole lot more appealing if they collected urine as the valuable resource it is.