New York’s City Council is considering whether to decriminalize some non-violent crimes like drinking in public.
Must need the jail space for real criminals, like smokers, salters, and popcorn-butterers.
New York’s City Council is considering whether to decriminalize some non-violent crimes like drinking in public.
Must need the jail space for real criminals, like smokers, salters, and popcorn-butterers.
The violent crime rate in New York plummeted when they stopped ignoring minor crimes. It seems the folks committing the minor crimes were often the same ones committing the major crimes.
Don’t forget the juicers.
Open bottles non-criminalized? … Must be the open change I’ve heard about.
It’ll just be an Irish Mist demeanor. And future instances will be tossed out of quart.
“Bottoms up! Don’t shoot!”
This precedent could have a Ripple effect.
Are they going to employ Liter Maids?
So as long as you ask nicely for someone’s wallet, they can’t arrest you?
I plead a fifth.
@7: wwwIST
(wish, wish, wish I’d said that) (Apparently that domain is not taken. I should buy it!)
Down the Hatch Amendment!
The brown bag lobby has vowed to fight this.
So now, undercover cops can watch loose cigarettes being sold and take down the real criminals once the sale goes down.
This precedent could have a Ripple effect.
Someone needs to smack Oppo for that one.