Ridiculous Law Being Discussed – Sitting on your Home’s Sidewalk may become illegal!
Are you joking me? Has the city lawmakers gone nuts?
They are proposing a new bill that will make sitting on sidewalks illegal. Of course, this is intended to solve the problems of drug addicts smoking crack on the sidewalks but come one, is this going to really solve those problems?
San Francisco’s lawmakers are debating a proposed law that would ban sitting or lying on sidewalks throughout the city, a move critics say targets the homeless.
The bill brought forward by Mayor Gavin Newsom to the city’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday is believed to be the broadest of its kind in the nation, as it would ban anyone from sitting or lying on sidewalks from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. and would apply even in front of one’s own home.
I am not homeless nor am I a drug-addict but I personally like sitting on sidewalks at time to have a smoke. What the fu** is wrong with that?
Perhaps sidewalks have been used by drug-addicts and homeless as a chair but you can’t make that illegal.
Seriously, are you going to let cops have the right to arrest my 5 year old kids when they are sitting on the curb in front of my HOUSE?!?
I don’t care what the great reasons for making sidewalks illegal are, you must come up with a better solution than this.
Simply put, this law allows cops wide discretion to arrest people for doing basically nothing at all, completely at will. Ominous for its crystal clarity, one particularly Orwellian slide entitled “Customized for Our City” showed a crowd of happy people on the Golden Gate Bridge, with a series of captions about the law including, “Enables Preventative Intervention, Before Accident or Crime Occurs.” To emphasize the point, [assistant police chief Kevin] Cashman said that unlike other laws which focus on criminal acts, this would “prevent a criminal act from occurring in the first place.”
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