Arrests Up for Public Drinking, Peeing: Is There A Connection?

The NYPD recently released its summons counts for the seven most common "quality-of-life" violations, and for the past two years, the overall totals have been the highest on record, surpassing 500,000 "quality-of-life crimes" in '07 and '08. The Post reports that last year the number of summonses for drinking in public increased by more than 4,000 (from 66,885 cases to 70,948) from July 1st through December 31st, compared with the same period in 2007. And it doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to get why more people were also busted for public urination during the same time period, up from 3,888 to 4,161. More stats: disorderly conduct arrests during that time dropped from 47,730 to 43,018, marijuana possession busts declined from 4,775 to 4,107, and littering violations were down from 3,216 to 2,901. And the Post says you've got the Post to thank for a recent NYPD crackdown on "quality-of-life" crimes; the tabloid says cops turned up the heat on misdemeanors after the Post reported fewer summonses for minor offenses in 2008 than in 2007.

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By John Del Signore in News on April 7, 2009 4:29 PM

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theboneranger

because the irish clean after themselves and don't piss all over the streets and as a whole those crazy puerto ricans just LOVE goin' out rapin' alll over the place. ** roll eyes ** :P

surely stackmaster is NYPD, he/she is certainly repping the way they think...

aspiringrapper

Well, CR, if you agree with the above, you're both idiots. Stereotypically, or otherwise, Irish people may drink at their parade, but they don't then go out & rape & assault women & leave the parade route filthy & vandalized like the Puerto Ricans.

theboneranger

are you serious?!? ahahahaahahaha

theboneranger

thats because they're irish and not puerto ricans

CR

Agreed.

jackdonaghy

Of course there is a connection. Doesn't anybody remember the Saint Patrick Day parades pre-Guiliani?

Guest

I don't remember it pre-G because I didn't live here then, but from what I've seen the cops pretty much ignore public drinking during that parade. I work in Midtown and when I went outside to check out the festivities a few weeks ago, not a single cop said anything to people walking around with alcoholic drinks (and there were a LOT of them, including underage kids).