Giuliani banished "squeegee men": civility from treating small crimes
"We attacked crime immediately, but we knew it would take time to show results. Reducing the number of crimes would not be enough: people had to see improvement. We had to get people to feel safe.
That's how the idea for addressing the squeegee man problem appeared. There were men who would wander up to a car stopped in traffic, spray the windshield, & wipe it down. After the unsolicited "cleaning," the man would request payment.
My belief was that treating small crimes was a way to establish lawful, civil behavior & a feeling of safety. The police chief said we lacked a legal basis to move them as long as they were not threatening drivers or demanding money. I said, how about that they are jaywalking. When they stepped off the curb they violated the law.
Then, in giving them tickets, you could investigate whether there were outstanding warrants & so on.
In under a month, we reduced the problem dramatically. New Yorkers loved it & so did all the visitors who brought money into the city"
Source: Leadership, autobiography by Rudolph Giuliani, p. 41-43 Oct 1, 2002
This is such a classic bait and switch move, yeah its all those guys rubbing a dirty rag on your window that are a threat to your safety, not our maniac police department, crazy ass cabdrivers, or the entrenched paramilitary virus that is todays modern mafia, but fucking homeless people!!
Yeeeaaaaahhh!!!
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If you vote for this guy you deserve what you get you faux neo-con idiots!
Learn the art of critical thinking, there is absolutely no substitute!!
DF
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