Last month New Yorkers in the Upper West Side were all up in arms about a hotel that was used as a temporary shelter to house 18 persons labeled as “sex offenders”. Neighbors of the Hotel Belleclaire, at 77th and Broadway, questioned why “so many” of these individuals had to be housed together. Now people living near a Holiday Inn Express in Queens are also whining that 15 registrants are being housed there by the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
While there are hundreds of places spread across the city where these people could be housed (including more than 100 hotels that are being utilized by the city’s Department of Homeless Services during the COVID crisis to facilitate social distancing), barely any will or can legally accept people on the registry. New York’s Sexual Assault Reform Act, restricts registrants from living within 1,000 feet of a school. Good luck finding many options!
The inevitable result is that registrants are clustered into the few available options. Now those living close to those options are arguing that their neighborhoods are somehow made less safe because of this law. Somewhat ironic, isn’t it?
Chicago tried a program to put all of the poor together in high-rise apartments, (Robert Taylor Homes, Cabrini Green). That was a TERRIBLE idea! Maybe a large voting block of RSOs can impose a restricted area where no child-care or children’s parks can be built. It is difficult to find housing far from parks. The children that live in neighborhoods without parks play in the front lawn where the RSO lives.
I still remember the big stink that was raised when a mosque was built about 500 feet from the WTC site a year or two after 9-11. At the time, some were saying something like “500 feet in NYC is like 5 miles anywhere else.” What happened to that logic?
There’s a saying that says “give a fool enough rope and he’ll hang himself with it”
Here’s the proof!!
Reminder….Jeffrey Epstein was a Registered Sex Offender in NY State….he never complied any time he visited NY….A Judge wrote an order making HIM COMPLY…he never complied…Nor did any New Yorker COMPLAIN about him NOT COMPLYING….Nor did the LEO’s enforce his compliance!
A FACT! BUT, Because these people do not have a ‘billion dollars’ in the bank accounts, they are being sought after
Jeffrey Epstein’s Apartment in Manhattan is within 1000 feet of academic institutions…..HUMMMMMM!?!?!?
Pop some popcorn, sit back, and watch the NY sex offender registry show.
Meanwhile, loads of New Yorkers are fleeing to Florida because of bad politics under Cuomo and De Blasio So, the same people who voted for them are now fleeing NY to come here.
LOL, yeah, I’m not going to be fleeing to Floriduh for any reason. Personally, I’d love to build a wall across the top of Floriduh and give it to Cuba. Nothing racial about that, BTW. Wanted to say that before people start assuming.
What I find interesting is that, with all the immigrants here in FL, many who are NOT legal, you’d THINK that FL laws would be more relaxed in all areas of law. But nope! I’ve never experienced a more “police state” in any of the other states I’ve visited. Literally there are cops EVERYWHERE down here. But never when these crazy Miami drivers make wrong turns or are speeding or not allowing pedestrians the right of way. Somehow there’s never a cop around for that. Maybe because they’re too concerned with someone who has a sex offense from 2 billion years ago.
Florida belongs to Puerto Rico now.
You mean Cuba..? Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory.
As a Puerto Rican, I certainly know my country is a US territory.
NYican
Mostly south Florida., little Havana in Miami.
However, in Osceola county which about 40 years ago was 98% white (not being racist just stating a fact) is now about 80% Hispanic.
The reason is two fold. #1 the white farmers used Mexican laborers for decades to work on the farms.
#2 and the Biggest influx of Migrants is the Theme park explosion. Disney, hotels, Universal all need maids, porters, housemen etc and many of them are from Mexico, Haiti , and other places. These unskilled workers are more likely to be willing to work for low wages.
To show the impact it is has had, the Osceola Sheriffs race winner for the first time in 150 years will be a Hispanic Sheriff. Both candidates repubs and dems are Hispanic so regardless of who wins, the Sheriff will be Hispanic. Marco Lopez or Luis “Tony” Fernández.
Again, I am stating facts, not demoralizing any group.
NY to FL has had the most of any migration (state to state) in the last decade. Florida even bumped a spot on top of NY from #4 to #3 for most populous state. I live in South Florida and have met more NY’ers and NJ’ers natives than people from any other state in the last couple of years. Some have began calling downtown Miami, aka: The tropical Manhattan.
Just think how much calmer everyone would be, whether required to register or not, if the registries didn’t exist.
Yep. It would improve public safety too. And allow millions of people to stop wasting time, money, goodwill, and other limited resources.
One saying comes to mind “Deja vu”.
The problem with all of this is people don’t understand how easily you can be put on the registry and they just look at the title not why or how and that they served their time it’s so sad how judge mental people are we really need criminal justice reform I feel that’s one of the ways it will help and to educate but some people don’t care and don’t want to listen