NYPost.com:
Scofflaws who’ve ignored tickets for boozing in public, urinating in the streets and other quality-of-life offenses have no reason to behave now: City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito is announcing legislation today to wipe out more than 700,000 outstanding warrants for the low-level misdeeds.When it comes to creating a liberal utopia\the Godless far-Left have taken over New York and turned it into the east-coast version of California. With Andrew Cuomo at the head and this woman lying in weight as a powerful City Council Speaker, any wonder when NY becomes a place conservatives will want to stay far away from.
The free passes will also be handed out to people nailed for disorderly conduct, breaking park rules, idling a vehicle, creating unreasonable noise and littering.
Mark-Viverito is unveiling the measure, which grants amnesty for nearly half of the city’s 1.5 million outstanding warrants, in her State of the City speech.
“We must continue the quest for reform,” Mark-Viverito said in excerpts of her speech released Wednesday.
“Our support for the NYPD and our efforts to improve the criminal justice system are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they go hand in hand.”
Mark-Viverito successfully pushed for an increase in the number of police officers last year.
But she and fellow council members have also come under fire from critics who say that many of the legislators’ ideas would hamper cops’ ability to get criminals off the streets.
The city’s largest police union was quick to slam the new amnesty plan.
“Densely populated cities like ours require that everyone act in a civil manner, or our neighborhoods will become virtual cesspools,” said Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.
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