{"id":1037,"date":"2013-06-10T04:11:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T04:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2013-07-04T19:42:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T19:42:39","slug":"santa-cruz-and-nyc-new-laws-to-enforce-obedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/santa-cruz-and-nyc-new-laws-to-enforce-obedience\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cruz and NYC–New Laws to Enforce Obedience"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOTE BY NORSE:\u00a0\u00a0 While the below story may seem far away from “progressive” Santa Cruz, consider that tomorrow City Council will be passing a law to go into effect in a month that will make it a crime for anyone who \u201cby his or her conduct,or by threatening, abusive, or profane language, willfully molests or unreasonably interferes with the use of a City park or beach by any other person\u201d.\u00a0 Penalty up to a year in jail or $1000 fine. \u00a0 \u00a0 With an additional unprecedented 24-hour stay away order for any person who receives any kind of a citation (sleeping, smoking, urinating when a bathroom is closed).
\nSee http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2013\/06\/10\/18738230.php<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a>(“Round Two–The New Anti-Homeless Laws Return for a Final Reading”<\/p>\n
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06.10.13 – 2:13 PM<\/div>\n
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New York Senate Makes It Felony to Annoy or Alarm the Police, Which Won’t Be At All Problematic<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Arguing “too many people in our society have lost the respect they need to have for a police officer” – and we can’t imagine why – the New York State Senate has passed<\/strong><\/a> a bill creating the felony crime of aggravated harassment if anyone makes physical contact with a police officer with the intent <\/strong><\/a>to “harass, annoy, threaten or alarm” – a term so impossibly nebulous it could apply<\/strong><\/a> to virtually anyone, anytime, doing pretty much anything <\/strong><\/a>in the vicinity of said officer. And yes, he or she gets to decide just what is annoying, and obviously he or she will be totally <\/em>honest and accurate about what went down in any given encounter.<\/div>\n
“At a time when shocking incidents of disrespect and outright confrontation are at an all-time high, the men and women who patrol the streets of our cities deserve every possible protection we can offer them…We need to make it very clear that when a police officer is performing his duty, every citizen needs to comply and that refusal to comply carries a penalty.\u201d<\/div>\n

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