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  Mayor Nose When To Blitz Crime 

Posted by FoM on November 15, 2000 at 07:51:29 PT
By Frankie Edozien 
Source: New York Post 

A day after Mayor Giuliani got assaulted by the scent of marijuana wafting in a Midtown breeze, his administration is renewing its war on quality-of-life offenses. "I was walking out of the speech that I gave and I smelled marijuana. I turned around and these guys took off, and my detail couldn't catch them," Giuliani said yesterday at City Hall. The mayor had just addressed widows and orphans of firefighters. 
"You do not get to smoke marijuana. If you do, we're going to arrest you," he declared. The crackdown will focus on such offenses as street prostitution and panhandling and will use computer statistics to identify hot spots around the city. Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik said that in recent weeks precinct commanders had "identified 800 different problem areas, some very minute, some with bigger problems than others." "Those areas will be handled just like violent crime, murders, robberies . . . if we stay on them constantly through the Compstat process, we'll be able to keep them to a very minimal level," he added. Compstat is the method by which police brass distribute resources based on computer statistics to identify areas where crime is on the rise. Giuliani said there are intricate connections between violent crime and minor offenses and that some of the most dangerous criminals were nabbed on quality-of-life offenses. "When we did our first squeegee-operator blitz, we found that 30 to 40 percent of them were wanted for violent crimes," the mayor said. The last quality-of-life initiative, which began just before Thanksgiving last year, targeted the homeless, infuriating civil libertarians and others. Some 1,317 were arrested, others were steered to hospitals and shelters, and some just moved along. Norman Siegel, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, contends that many of those arrests were false arrests and said he is poised to challenge the administration if sweeps begin again this holiday season. "If it's merely public relations and his legacy we don't care, but if it's a change towards the homeless, panhandlers, then we'll need to challenge it legally," Siegel said. He pointed to Boston and San Diego as cities that drove crime down by creating partnerships between cops and communities. "Giuliani has not done that," he said. "I'm glad crime is down but we have to be on guard with these kinds of initiatives. You can't always send the cops in." The "Mayor's Quality of Life Initiative 2000" is in essence the same policy that his administration has had for the past six years. He said the difference this time is that it needed to be "reinvigorated" and included in Compstat. Officials said noise complaints have been the most frequent reports made to the city's 877-677-LIFE hot line. Other areas to be targeted will be public consumption of alcohol, squeegee men, graffiti artists and the homeless. Source: New York Post (NY) Author: Frankie EdozienPublished: Wednesday, November 15,2000 Copyright: 2000 N.Y.P. Holdings, Inc. Contact:  letters nypost.com Website http://nypostonline.com/ CannabisNews Articles - Giuliani:http://cannabisnews.com/thcgi/search.pl?K=Giuliani

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Comment #5 posted by FoM on November 18, 2000 at 21:53:11 PT:

New York Post - Opinions

Giuliani's Lastest, Futile AssaultSource: New York Post (NY)Published: Saturday,November 18,2000Copyright: 2000 N.Y.P. Holdings, Inc. Contact: letters nypost.com Website http://nypostonline.com/ Mayor Giuliani is upset that he smelled cannabis smoke outside a place where he had just made a speech ("Mayor 'nose' when to blitz crime," Nov. 15). He called on the NYPD to go after all quality-of-life lawbreakers. I wish our mayor would give a speech on a subway train that has been stalled for more than 20 minutes. The real quality-of-life issues that need to be addressed are such things as safe streets, reliable transport and clean public bathrooms, Mr. Mayor. Arthur J. Clark Sunnyside Why the war against marijuana smokers? Cannabis has no lethal dose, and its pharmacological effects have never caused a single death in more than 5,000 years of recorded history. Myron Von Hollingsworth Fort Worth, TX Why doesn't Mayor Giuliani just impose a curfew or martial law? That would solve all of his crime problems, right? If he smells marijuana coming from someone's home, then he can send in a paramilitary squad to arrest them. Do you see where this is headed? Wake up, New Yorkers. Live and let live. Prohibition does not work. S. Craig Manhattan If the mayor wants to crack down on pot-smokers, maybe we should start with the politicians, as so many have admitted to using cannabis in the past. G. Hardy Bayside 
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Comment #4 posted by aocp on November 16, 2000 at 13:38:45 PT:

the balloon theory

>"Those areas will be handled just like violent crime, murders, robberies . . . if we stay on them constantly through the Compstat process, we'll be able to keepthem to a very minimal level," he added. Pure and total BS. This parrot doesn't realize that when you push down on one area, another problem pops up elsewhere. I read this really cool piece on what it would realistically take to shut our borders from the outside importation of illicits. In short, impossible. Despite what you think, ghoul-iani, you cannot win. Oops. I think i just made him salivate over an increase in his plans to kill amerika. My bad.
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Comment #3 posted by kaptinemo on November 16, 2000 at 04:53:32 PT:

Karma, again.

Tom, I wouldn't be so quick to tell Rudy how well it works; one less dictatorial anti to order his minions to apply their jackboots to our necks is just fine with me.Not that he'd listen; people like him will go to their graves without admitting to the suffering they've caused with their pig-headedness about MMJ. Even if he *does* try it surreptitiously, he'd never stoop so low as to come clean and renounce a policy that has literally killed members of his own constituency. Any antis suffering from cancer or other diseases that cannabis could ameliorate, but continue to support its prohibition, are getting exactly what they deserve. And they are doing it to themselves. As one of my old instructors used to say over and over, ad nauseum, that "Ignorance kills." In this case, the ignorant people that are themselves doing the killing will, in turn, be killed by their own ignorance. There is a symmetry to the Universe; sometimes it takes the form of a two edged blade. Rudy and his cancer-ridden anti ilk are being cut to the bone by it. And I am smiling. 
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Comment #2 posted by MikeEEEEE on November 15, 2000 at 16:05:15 PT

Police State

If you haven't been to a police state come to New York City. Guiliani has camera's all around City Hall, I wonder who he's afraid of; he's made a lot of enemies with his zero tolerance policy.
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Comment #1 posted by Tom Skua on November 15, 2000 at 10:57:23 PT:

For Rudolf

Guiliani has prostate cancer. I suggest he takes a toke when it inevitably spreads. My father, who is 79, has the same cancer that has since spread to his bones in spite of treatment. Miraculous how my dad's nausea and headaches from the treatment goes away after just a few puffs. Rudolf, IT DOES WORK. Stop arresting people! Enjoy what time you have left!
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