NYPD kicking black people merely accused of crimes out of their appartments

[DetlefK]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/10/1481872/-New-York-City-residents-don-t-have-to-commit-a-crime-to-do-the-time

A recent investigation by ProPublica and the New York Daily News looked at a little over 500 “nuisance abatement” court cases in an 18-month period.

Three-quarters of the cases begin with secret court orders that lock residents out until the case is resolved. The police need a judge’s signoff, but residents aren’t notified and thus have no chance to tell their side of the story until they’ve already been locked out for days. And because these are civil actions, residents also have no right to an attorney.

Perhaps most fundamentally, residents can be permanently barred from their homes without being convicted or even charged with a crime.

A man was prohibited from living in his family home and separated from his young daughter over gambling allegations that were dismissed in criminal court. A diabetic man said he was forced to sleep on subways and stoops for a month after being served with a nuisance abatement action over low-level drug charges that also never led to a conviction. Meanwhile, his elderly mother was left with no one to care for her.

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173 of the people who gave up their leases or were banned from homes were not convicted of a crime, including 44 people who appear to have faced no criminal prosecution whatsoever.

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In at least 74 cases, residents agreed to warrantless searches of their homes, sometimes in perpetuity, as one of the conditions of being allowed back in. Others agreed to automatically forfeit their leases if they were merely accused of wrongdoing in the future.

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We identified the race of 215 of the 297 people who were barred from homes in nuisance abatement battles. Only five are white.

[KamaAina]

1. San Jose is looking at something similar

the "crime-free housing" ordinance. The difference here is that landlords would opt in and, in so doing, be given carte blanche to evict tenants who have had brushes with the law.

[joeybee12]

2. The question is not, Are we a police state yet?

It's, How long have we been a police state?

[madinmaryland]

4. Date was 9/11...

Look! I said a noun, verb, and 9/11!!!

BTW, dude. You have a Panther's avatar and yet you are whining about him being a sore loser!!

[joeybee12]

5. I took poor loser over pure evil...

You know, the team that plays at Mile HGH Stadium

[MagickMuffin]

6. Actually, it goes further back than 2001

The 4th Amendment has been obsolete since the War on Drugs.

[KamaAina]

8. And New York!

[madinmaryland]

13. Nice post, 9ui11iani!!

[MagickMuffin]

7. Since the 80's started with the War on Drugs

4th Amendment has been used against us from illegal searches and seizures.

[joeybee12]

11. Yup...

And sadly a lot of people are still in denial...makes you wonder what it will take.

[MagickMuffin]

12. To me the 4th Amendment is actually more important than the 2nd

It was designed to provide us with unnecessary searches and seizures. However, no one seemed to care at the time and they still don't seem to

[madinmaryland]

15. But everyone can have all the gunz they want...

Completely agree with you.

[madinmaryland]

14. I don't disagree with you. What I will say is that 9/11 has put law enforcement on steroids.

They are now using military grade equipment and surveillance equipment to go after people which was not available in the 80's and 90's.

Look at what happened to the un-armed and peaceful protestors of Occupy Wall Street a couple of years ago.

[Odin2005]

3. They could not red-line anymore, so they had to find enough way to keep away "those people".

[KamaAina]

9. So first the black person gets hassled by the cops for no reason,

then he gets kicked out of his apartment?!

[brooklynite]

10. Not the fault of the Police...

...they're being directed to enforce the ruling by the Court, as requested by City Attorneys.

Take it up with the Democratic Mayor, Bill De Blasio.