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NetQuarterLatte t1_ja7ss80 wrote

Wouldn’t that make it harder to win wage theft cases?

Criminal cases can be dropped for a lot of non-merit reasons and require a “beyond any reasonable doubt” burden of proof.

Civil cases only require preponderance of evidence and don’t have strict timelines (such as speedy trial) or onerous discovery requirements on the plaintiff side.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_ja5ldbx wrote

>Prosecutors said that Gzim Shabaj, who was charged earlier this week, had responded to one worker’s early September request to be paid by pulling out a knife and, with his other hand, repeatedly punching the worker in the head until his ear bled.
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>About three weeks later, a second day laborer asked for his money. This time, prosecutors said, Gzim Shabaj ripped a side mirror off the worker’s van and repeatedly hit the vehicle with the detached mirror, denting a hubcap and cracking the windshield. He also hit the laborer in the shoulder, and threatened to call immigration enforcement on him, cursing at him and telling him: “Hispanics, get out of the country.”

As a vocal critic of DA Bragg, I'm glad to see Bragg doing something.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_ja3meu1 wrote

The lack of oversight into NYC shelters is staggering. And the silence of our “progressive” advocates is complicit.

A typical congregate shelter cost the city over 5k per bed per month. And we are still building new shelters that are even more expensive.

And at the same time, their conditions are so bad that people who stay in a NYC shelter are more likely to die than people who stay at Riker’s.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j9vumgb wrote

A capped highway would be a lot cheaper and simpler to construct than a tunnel. This may be an example of the "perfect" being the enemy of the good.

And it would still be transformative.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/traffic/transit-traffic/new-proposal-would-replace-bqe-with-tunnel-open-up-brooklyn-bridge-park/2301108/

>Time could be an issue if the city chooses to build a tunnel. In Boston, the "Big Dig" construction project was plagued by delays and overruns — causing their tunnel project to take more than a decade and cost $24 billion.
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>The other option, called the "capped highway plan," calls for the BQE to be replaced by a street-level roadway with a deck over it. That plan would expand Brooklyn Bridge Park, making it one of the largest in the borough.
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>The latter plan would cost $3.5 billion and take six years to complete.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j9vsbq2 wrote

If you buy a co-op, you would actually become a shareholder in a company that owns the building, but that shareholder ownership also gives you a permanent lease of the unit.

Co-ops require board approval for transactions, so a co-op board could just deny your purchase without giving any reason. And that opens a lot of doors for potential discrimination. The application package you submit to the board can be invasive, like resume, copies of your tax returns, letters of recommendations and such (some describe as more invasive than going to a dentist). They may even require an interview... for what's practically the right to rent a unit after paying a huge deposit.

Despite the difficulties, that may still be a financially sound strategy compared to the alternatives. If you don't plan on living there for many years, it's probably not worth it.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j9vpmun wrote

The problem is that the concerns strike as either exaggerated or selective outrage in NYC when considering, for example, that our homeless shelters are deadlier than Riker's.

And it's just factual that the oversight board has an agenda, I mean they need to have a purpose. The problem is when that purpose trumps basic human dignity considerations, for example, when they released Tavira's footage after his death, that's not the kind of flattering footage any decent human being would want to portrait another who passed away.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j9ub2q5 wrote

That doesn’t seem like a regular fare evasion.

With the camera person right there, the framing and the movement of the camera, music editing etc, this actually strikes as a premeditated violation.

Violations committed for the sake of TikTok income should receive a lot less sympathy.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j9h9ehe wrote

>“It’s been eight years of working between agencies trying to get stuff done,” said Ms. King, who looks forward to a more streamlined process in the future. “Think of how many brain cells die in the process. You start to lose your mind.”

This can go both ways. If it's just another bureaucratic layer. Things will get worse.

But if her role will cut through the bureaucracy so that departments spend less effort passing the buck around and more effort solving problems, this might be good.

Let us hope for the best.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j9gjzan wrote

>Jon, a 15-year-old boy from Queens who asked to be identified by only his first name out of concern for potential legal repercussions, said he got caught surfing on the back of the No. 5 train by the police in early 2022, but got off with a warning.

The warning should ideally be like those anti-smoking warnings and show them some graphic image of what has happened to other teens in the past.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j97k7cy wrote

Not sure it would make a difference either way.

Because the vast majority of the Legal Aid’s revenue comes the government, so tax payers are already donating.

And specifically, the amount they spend on fundraising appears to practically cancel how much they actually raise from non-government revenue.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j8xtavv wrote

>Although the Staten Island Parade Committee blames the exclusion on the teachings of the Catholic Church, the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Manhattan ended a two-decade ban of LGBTQ+ groups in 2014, while parades in Boston and Dublin have done the same. And a St. Patrick’s Parade in the Bronx last year for the first time allowed an LGBTQ+ group to march openly.

The church actually teaches the opposite of hatred and exclusion, but the delusions of moral superiority and righteous attitude provided fertile grounds for bigots to hide and fester there for centuries.

It's surprising to see this kind of old-school bigotry still today.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j8lkrme wrote

I wasn’t in a very busy station. And it was just one person jumping the turnstile.

Not like the bulk evasion of people using the emergency door like in this video: https://youtu.be/gqRQ5_TiVA8

I’ve actually seen a person once (on his way out) purposely open and hold that kind of door just to see if anyone would want to come in for free. But I didn’t stick around to see if anyone took the opportunity.

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