Posted on 08/16/2013 6:58:14 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest crime-fighting idea had a lot of people riled up on Friday.
The mayor wants to fingerprint more than 600,000 people who live in public housing. He said it would be done to make the projects safer.
Bloomberg was responding to questions about Federal Judge Shira Schendlin’s ruling on the stop-and-frisk program when the topic shifted to security and the New York City Housing Authority. Bloomberg said there has to be a way to make the projects safer.
“Five percent of our population lives in NYCHA housing, 20 percent of the crime is in NYCHA housing – numbers like that. And we’ve just got to find some way to keep bringing crime down there. And we have a whole group of police officers assigned to NYCHA housing,” Bloomberg said. “The people that live there, most of them, want more police protection. They want more people. If you have strangers walking in the halls of your apartment building, don’t you want somebody to stop and say, ‘Who are you, why are you here?’”
But residents who live within the confines of NYCHA buildings said the mayor’s fingerprinting idea goes too far.
“That’s like invading someone’s privacy or something. Why you want to fingerprint somebody? It is bad enough you get arrested, you get finger printed, so why you want to fingerprint us? Now Bloomberg needs to get a job. Get out of here already. He’s done. Bloomberg is done,” Chelsea Houses resident Nino Alayon said.
“Why? For what? We live here all these years, I mean, what seems to be the problem? This is not jail,” added Deborah Gatling of the Chelsea Houses.
“I don’t feel that that’s right. Fingerprinted for what?” resident Alberta Hale added.
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I can understand the need for food stamps in some cases. But government should not be in the housing business, period.
Very good response. Our Social Security recipients don’t seem to realize that hooks come with the meat either. They think they “invested” in something other than an evil Ponzi scheme, and they also think it isn’t a Federal government invasive issue ........for them.
Touche!! Your point is well taken-at least with me.Want to know the truth? Many Demoncrats also proclaim to follow Jesus. So i ask you - what is the difference between the judgmental FReepers and the DU?
I can’t believe some of the hard hearted people on here who claim to be compassionate, caring and conservative, but in reality are quite the opposite.
I pay into the food stamp program as well and yet I sure don’t want to dictate what people can and can’t eat. If there is fraud, then sooner or later it will be found out. If not, then there’s a higher judge who keeps perfect records. It isn’t my place to become their judge, jury and executioner. My tax money goes for a lot worse things than food stamps and public housing,but there isn’t a thing I can do about it.
Left to their own devices, some FReepers would put conditions on everything. Wait - isn’t that a leftist tactic?
Bloomberg is a Jewish Nazi, just like Soros.
“I will never understand those that say those are “entitlements” after you have paid into them, and that you don’t deserve and shouldn’t get so much as a penny of that money back.”
I guess they are entitlements to those that don’t contribute to them.
yep...these idiots couldnt imagine that their *free $h!t* utopia would eventually lead to being reduced to cattle ???
they voted themselves an open air prison system...deal with it...
The difference is that both of those are forced programs. Welfare isn't.
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