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I've seen the delightful Paco and Taco now a few times! So cool to see that they have traded in the shopping cart this spring for a wheelchair!
Posted on: 2014/4/3 16:46
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And I just looked at the math. A 90-day jail sentence plus a $1250 fine works out at somewhere between a $15k-$40k* cost to the City or County for every conviction. Seriously? The City proposes to spend that amount of our tax dollars when someone waves a cup in our face twice? Un-freaking-believable!
Why not just give them a month's light rail pass, a couple of hundred, and tell them to spend the month in Bayonne or Hoboken. * NJ average jail cost/year is $60k, NYC is $160k+, Hudson is probably somewhere between those 2 numbers.
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Devils advocate - even with a clear directed law, I doubt the cops will bother. Not likely they'll collect on any fine from a panhandler. St Lucy's will end up with a stack of undelivered summonses. The police wouldn't even want most of these folks in the back of their squad cars, never mind in a jail cell, or courtroom. They'd only bother if a more serious law was broken.
(...or might be a way for the homeless to get a warm cell bed and meal on cold winter nights.)
Posted on: 2014/3/28 19:35
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Because prosecutors don't like cases that are a challenge to win. They are already overloaded, so if they have to adapt a broad law for some aggressive panhandlers they'll just avoid prosecuting. Then the message that will get sent to cops is "don't bother arresting them, no one is going to jail or getting fined for it." That is why you need a clear law directed at the exact activity.
Posted on: 2014/3/28 17:31
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Ok, waiting for some Marxist idiocy to come up on the screen. Anytime now.
Posted on: 2014/3/28 17:29
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Also with the quotes if you didn?t already know?I just cut and paste the text I want to use and stick in a **** wrote:
Replace > < with left and right brackets >quote< joe wrote: hello >/quote< Quote: joe wrote: hello
Posted on: 2014/3/28 11:04
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Well now, Devilsadvocate, I guess we just getting started. Hope you stay tuned ALL, there be trouble in the waters. An ass whoopin comin' on for sure, lol. "...was pretty smart ACTUALLY...?" Nah, not merely an ass whoopin' that's coming on, but rather, an EVISCERATION.
Posted on: 2014/3/28 4:34
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If you think that making something illegal puts an end to it, perhaps you'd like to hear about the tooth fairy too. Sure, a law banning aggressive panhandling situations is something I'd favor in theory but in reality, the city council is just wasting their time and energy on something that is unenforceable and there are already state laws on the books for anyway. There are better things for them to focus on; passing this proposed law will be symbolic at best and nothing will change from it. I don't want this law because - what's the point? It will do nothing.
Posted on: 2014/3/28 0:10
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CHRIS CHRISTIE GUILTY of aggressive begging, soliciting, panhandling and bullying for votes
Posted on: 2014/3/27 22:48
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The simple reason the laws don't work, is like many laws, they're not enforced. Might be an novel idea to try enforcing existing laws, before creating more populist legislation that sits idly in the rule books.
Posted on: 2014/3/27 22:14
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I don't know if that homeless guy in Hoboken, asked the JC kids for cash before he got killed by them, but I believe beggars and panhandlers are regular targets for abuse and violence - any complaint stops at "name and address?". And yes, I can support the clergy representing the interests of the targets of the proposed legislation.
Posted on: 2014/3/27 22:00
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My humor is for the silent blue collar majority - If my posts offend, slander or you deem inappropriate and seek deletion, contact the webmaster for jurisdiction.
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I think those don't really work, because they're not doing it for the purpose of harassment. They're doing it for the purpose of solicitation. I don't understand why you think this only applies to homeless people. If I get out of my luxury car tonight and start being a jerk to try to get you to give me money because I left my wallet at home and need gas then I would equally be aggressively panhandling. I don't see anything in the proposed legislation that says "where person has a net worth of less than X" or "where the defendant has an income of no more than Y"...
Posted on: 2014/3/27 20:59
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I've never heard of a normal person on the street aggressively harassing a panhandler but have seen it the other way around. In any event, this proposed law was tabled to allow the clergy to have input. Surely you can support that?
Posted on: 2014/3/27 20:57
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The ones that don't fall under disorderly conduct law, probably fall under the Harassment law. http://www.newjersey-legal-guide.com/New-Jersey-Harassment.html The nice thing about the existing laws, is that they provide equal protection to all parties. Like you, I'm sure most panhandlers don't want to be on the receiving end of aggression or harassment.
Posted on: 2014/3/27 20:51
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So here's the description from the site: "To be convicted of New Jersey disorderly conduct, N.J.S.A. 2C:33-2, the person must engage in fighting, threatening, violent or tumultuous behavior or create a hazardous or physically dangerous condition by an act which serves no legitimate purpose." I can think of plenty of aggressive panhandling situations that would still not clearly fall under that. Again, WHY do we not want a law that very clearly bans the behavior. The people doing it, after a few arrests, will leave. That is GOOD. I'm not interested in crying for the homeless, I'm interested in them not bothering me.
Posted on: 2014/3/27 20:36
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Not necessarily. One can be rude and aggressive without necessarily doing anything illegal. However, we do not want people to rudely and aggressively panhandle. Therefore, we should ban it because it is a nuisance.
Posted on: 2014/3/27 20:33
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Yeah, you hit reply instead of quote when there are too many posts.
Posted on: 2014/3/27 18:55
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Posted on: 2014/3/27 18:52
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How about prohibiting quotes within quotes within quotes within quotes....
Posted on: 2014/3/27 18:39
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This do? http://www.newjersey-legal-guide.com/ ... y-Disorderly-Conduct.html Backtracking? Nope - just highlighting the absurd, discriminatory nature of the proposed law. People shouldn't have to deal with any aggression directed at them, panhandler or not. And equally, panhandlers shouldn't have to deal with aggression directed at them.
Posted on: 2014/3/27 17:31
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Probably illegal? Sure about that? Link? You're backtracking a lot. Cut your losses. Anyways, the problem is that people shouldn't have to deal with aggressive panhandlers.
Posted on: 2014/3/27 17:23
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Aggressive begging is probably already illegal also. So what is the point of the law, if not a NIMBY means to target street begging because it looks bad? Sweep the problem under the carpet.
Posted on: 2014/3/27 17:17
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The other aggressive actions you mentioned are already illegal or don't occur with any frequency (dog poop rage). So what is your point?
Posted on: 2014/3/27 16:48
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No, you were saying this law targets a group instead of an activity.
Posted on: 2014/3/27 16:11
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I was arguing the case against all aggressive actions. Lawyers - sheesh!
Posted on: 2014/3/27 16:08
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No, it is targeting the activity but that is fine because aggressive panhandling shouldn't be permitted. Really, I don't like non-aggressive panhandling either but we have to draw the line somewhere, and that seems like a reasonable place. I'm fine with NIMBY in this case. If someone else would like to adopt our homeless population and let them aggressively beg on their streets then I would be THRILLED with that. Seriously, how on earth can anyone actually defend the right to aggressively panhandle? Have you liberals lost your freakin' minds?
Posted on: 2014/3/27 15:35
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No, it's targeting an activity. If I were to aggressively panhandle, I would be violating the law. So no, it's not targeting the homeless or the poor. We all know that not everyone who panhandles is homeless or poor.
Posted on: 2014/3/27 15:19
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