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Re: Jersey City City Council awards $3.2 million contract to former BA's reval company
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thanks neverleft. i saw that pdf on JC's website, but since it says the revals start in Nov. 2010 and they didn't award the contract til Feb 2011 I thought it was old info. I was looking for some infor that was more current.

Posted on: 2011/3/23 11:47
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Re: Jersey City City Council awards $3.2 million contract to former BA's reval company
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Anyone know when the reval inspectors begin inspecting homes?

Posted on: 2011/3/22 13:34
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Re: Several local politicians arrested on corruption charges
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Anyone know if Vega is still working his county job? I haven't read anything about him being fired from that position.

Posted on: 2009/8/1 13:11
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Re: Pay-to-play passes; vote by council is unanimous
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I?m pretty sure I wasn?t the only person sitting in the auditorium Wed. night thinking something fishy was going on. Then Dan Levin hit on it. Something like? if the council approved the ordinance, then they have the ability to amend it at any time. If they didn?t approve the referendum and it goes to the ballot and passes in the election next May, then they would have to WAIT 3 YEARS TO AMEND IT.

Five bucks says the fat cat$ rewrite it before the end of this year.

Posted on: 2008/9/6 14:29
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Re: Are Cops drinking on duty in JC? you have to see this video!!!
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On Feb. 27, 2008, The CW11 News in New York City covered the ?drunk cop video? as their TOP FEATURE STORY. S6K posted it on their website. Here?s the link:

http://www.s6k.com/page.cfm?id_news=7 ... tion=9967506&xid=25632509



Also, Underdevelopment.tv posted a video showing how the off-duty JC cops hired by the landlord of 111 First Street tried to stop a Star Ledger reporter and photographer from covering the arson. Earlier that very same day, the cops pushed their way into a tenant?s private studio and forced a reporter and camera crew from New Jersey News network out of the building. Unfortunately, there?s no tape of that.

http://underdevelopment.tv/2008/02/19 ... porter-forced-out-of-111/

Posted on: 2008/3/19 3:08
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Re: Are Cops drinking on duty in JC? you have to see this video!!!
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Quote:

DanL wrote:
No ..... shame on Jersey City.

Our city failed to adequately protect its residents and enforce the applicable law. It is our city government's responsibility to regulate development and developers. Developers may be easy targets for rhetoric and deflecting blame, but it is our city leadership that has taken an oath of responsibility to serve the public.

I am glad to see these events revisited and believe the public should be seeking accountablility.


How would you suggest we can seek the city's accountability?

Posted on: 2007/11/6 14:47
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Re: Are Cops drinking on duty in JC? you have to see this video!!!
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Early in 2005, the desk sergeant at the East District Precinct told me there were eight police officers assigned to 111 First Street at all times. For EIGHT MONTHS, the city allowed Lloyd Goldman, a NYC multi-billionaire developer and landlord of 111, to hire uniformed off-duty Jersey City police officers with guns to harass and intimidate approx.100 residents at 111. Some of the drunk cops in the video were almost certainly working for Goldman, (as it was pointed out by someone else in this thread) because an employee of Goldman approached the vehicle with a paper at the end of the tape.

Harassment by the off-duty hired cops at 111 took place on a daily basis, ranging from mildly frustrating, to extremely dangerous, and to downright unconstitutional. An example of a mildly frustrating form of harassment is when one artist was taking some of his artwork out of the building for an exhibition, a cop told him that the artwork was now the property of Lloyd Goldman and he couldn?t remove the work. (True story!) An example of an extremely dangerous situation is when a cop blocked a fire exit with a 4x8 sheet of plywood so he could nap, drink, or do whatever he was doing in the dark street behind 111. There was also the arson. With eight cops watching the building, it is hard to imagine they couldn?t provide any information to the arson squad. Two examples in the unconstitutional category are when police officers hired by Goldman removed a television crew from the studio of one of the tenants. They also attempted to remove a Star Ledger reporter from the building. I have video of this and I also have a photo of the plywood against the fire door.

There were 100 tenants in the building during this time and each could probably tell you at least one story involving unprovoked harassment by the cops. I could easily rattle off another ten examples that personally happened to me.

It is important to understand the chaos and confusion that occurred by having uniformed off-duty Jersey City police officers (w/guns) hired by the landlord in and around the building. Confrontations between the tenants and BLDG Management (Goldman?s goons) were constant. If the tenants needed police intervention, it was impossible to get any justice from the rent-a-cops. We had to call the precinct to get an ON DUTY police officer for the situation. The precinct would then exclaim that they already had officers on site. And we would say, ?yeah, but there working for the landlord. We want someone who will be neutral.? Eventually we would get an on-duty Jersey City police officer, but the whole situation was nuts. It got to the point that when any interaction with a police officer occurred at 111, most of us would first ask if he/she was working for the landlord right now or if they were on-duty being paid by the city. For this reason alone, off-duty police officers hired by private companies/individuals should not be allowed to wear their uniforms or carry their police revolvers.

BTW- it costs about $45/per hour to hire an off-duty Jersey City police officer. If Goldman had 8 police daily for 8 months, it kicked in an additional $2,073,600 towards our boys/girls in blue. Unbelievable!!!

What angers me most is city officials knew all this was happening. We brought our grievances to Mayor Healy several times. Members of the city council were aware of the situation at 111. Certainly Mariano Vega and Junior Maldonado knew. Internal Affairs received reports. Even Judge Gallipoli must have indirectly had a clue, since we were in his court room several times to try to overturn bogus building restrictions that Goldman?s goons dreamed up to harass us and the off-duty hired cops enforced.

A lawyer friend of mine who worked in the legal department of a city in NJ once told me that he doubts you could find another city in this country that would allow their police force to be hired by a private contractor for long extended periods of time such as in the case of 111. I am furious Jersey City has this policy and they should immediately eliminate it. No other citizens in this city should experience the injustice the tenants of 111 went through.

Posted on: 2007/11/5 3:51
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