-Caveat Lector-
On 23 Feb 99, , kimberly wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Hey, does this mean if a friend got a DUI in your car, it would be siezed? Is this
> Constitutional??? Snoowl don't you live in NY ? What's going on?
That's what it means. You can bet a lot of suburban families (most of the people who
work in NYC) won't be letting their kids drive the family car into the city on weekends
anymore. Let's hope that has some effect on all the businesses that count on these
folks coming into the city for a little weekend fun--theatre, clubs, restaurants, etc.,
rousing them to protest.
What is going on in New York? I've been out of the city for the winter, so I have to
suppose that more people who live and drive in NYC (Manhattanites don't drive. They
take public transportation for the most part. If they do have cars, they use them for
weekend getaways. Monthly garage space in the city costs more than apartments
used to cost.) have finally gotten the hang of the alternate-side parking situation and
the city needs revenue. If you do drive within the city, you rarely can go faster than
30
mph anyway, what with traffic lights and heavy traffic and I guess with the new
cameras, not enough people are running red lights.
More than that, Guilliani is gearing up for a senatorial run on the Republican ticket.
He
has to show the party that he can be as tough as any small town sheriff. In the past
month (s?) two innocent people have been savagely shot by NYPD. One woman who
was sitting in her car and seemed unresponsive went down with 18 bullets. Another
young man who happened to be the wrong color, in the wrong place at the wrong time,
got 41 bullets from 4 of New York's Finest. What I hear on the news is a little bit
about
the demonstrations against this police brutality and a lot of police given air time to
talk
about how difficult their job is and how hard it is to tell if a person is or is not
armed.
One of the very first things Guiliani did when he was elected to office was to get rid
of
all the independent PR and review organs that dealt with the police. And since
Guiliani
has taken personal credit for all the "zero tolerance" stuff in order to make the city
a
more pleasant place for tourists, ticketing New Yorkers for jaywalking, etc., I suppose
he has to take credit for this slaughter of innocents....and this new draconian
forfeiture
law, too.
I used to like Guiliani, when he was a simple crimebuster, going after organized crime
in the city. Seems to me he's crossed the line. Like Pataki with his $50K raises for
aides and his contempt for the city's schools, its poor, ill, and homeless, Guiliani
has become a true Repbulican, promoting power for the powerful. I would be very
surprised if New York elected any more Republicans to mayoral office. Seems there is
a price to be paid in injustice for a "clean" city.
So here I am now, upstate, looking up into a rural sky crisscrossed by contrails.
As the man said: You can run, but you can't hide :))
> Sincerely Barley
>
> Kris Millegan wrote:
>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Subject: Now, Forfeiture for Non-Drug-Related Charges
> > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:14:11 EST
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > NYC Seizes Cars in DWI Crackdown
> >
> > NEW YORK (AP) -- A city crackdown on drunken drivers began with the seizure of
> > at least two cars.
> >
> > New York is the first municipality in the nation to seize the vehicles of
> > motorists arrested on drunken driving charges as a way to reduce the number of
> > deaths on roadways.
> >
> > Motorists with a blood alcohol level of 0.10 percent -- the state's legal
> > limit for driving -- or higher will have their vehicles seized on the spot.
> > While the motorist faces prosecution in criminal court, the vehicle seizure
> > will be part of a separate proceeding in civil court under state forfeiture
> > laws.
> >
> > And because civil proceedings require only a preponderance of evidence for a
> > verdict -- rather than guilt beyond a reasonable doubt -- motorists acquitted
> > of drunken driving in criminal court may still lose their cars in civil court.
> >
> > Civil libertarians have attacked the new policy as excessive and vowed to
> > challenge it in court. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said he is confident the plan
> > will hold up in court.
> >
> > One car was seized Sunday and one today. Officer Theresa Farello, a police
> > department spokeswoman, could not immediately explain why a car was seized
> > Sunday evening, 1 1/2 hours before the program was to start at midnight.
sno0wl
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