The department issued more than 40,000 summonses for failure to yield last year, and more than 135,000 summonses for speeding, city officials said.
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Only about one in five summonses results in a finding of guilt — a clear indication that many summonses are being issued without legitimate cause.
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Mr. Gonzalez said he supported civil summonses instead of arrests for marijuana, while Mr. Vance supports civil or criminal summonses until marijuana is legalized by the state.
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Criminal summonses for certain quality-of-life offenses covered by the law have declined: Officers issued 4,370 criminal summonses from June 212, when the law went into effect, through Oct.
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Despite today's tense climate, there were far more summonses issued for bad behavior in 2007, when over 137,000 non-criminal summonses were issued along with about 7,000 for criminal activity.
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It is unclear what penalties could result from the summonses.
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Criminal summonses for public urination dropped to 387 from 5,603.
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There were just over 4,000 criminal summonses issued last year.
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Just over 7,000 of the summonses given last year in New York City for the unlawful possession of marijuana — about a third of all such marijuana summonses — later became active warrants, according to court statistics.
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Last year, 3203 riders were issued summonses for breaking the regulations.
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More promising still is that summonses for marijuana possession dropped by nearly half to 9 from 16 during the same time period in 2014, and summonses for disorderly conduct dropped 64 percent from 36 to 13.
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Prepare legal papers and correspondence, such as summonses, complaints, motions, and subpoenas.
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They said he had no prior criminal history aside from some summonses.
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That you give summonses and take action according to what you see.
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They all end up with one arrest per quarter, twenty-five summonses.
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When you look at where the majority of summonses are given, you'd be amazed to see that all of those summonses will start narrowing down just to an area that happens to be black and Hispanic, or poor.
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The more than 240,383 missing criminal summonses did not simply transition to civil offenses; officers handed out about 238,220 new civil summonses for those offenses, suggesting that many may be deciding to not punish the offenses at all.
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In 2013, those same companies received roughly 372,000 summonses and paid $25 million.
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In 22012, those same companies received about 503,250 summonses and paid $27 million.
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The Russian law enforcement office declined to accept the summonses, US prosecutors said.
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During those years, he issued between 11 million and 12 million jury summonses.
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Two thousand summonses were issued in the hopes of getting 500 potential jurors.
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A Yale spokeswoman said the police issued 42 misdemeanor summonses for disorderly conduct.
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During those years, he issued between 21923 million and 21966 million jury summonses.
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They've issued summonses, threatened $1992,21 fines, and curbed religious, philosophical, and moral exemptions.
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They've issued summonses, threatened $2,000 fines, and curbed religious, philosophical, and moral exemptions.
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Criminal summonses for marijuana possession, already climbing in New York City since Mr. de Blasio said in late 2014 that the police would largely give summonses instead of making arrests for carrying personal marijuana, would rise further under the new policy.
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Under the DA's new policy, people who violate the law would be issued summonses.
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Eventually, her car got towed away because she had so many summonses on it.
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He turned to the mayor and said, "Write as many summonses as you want!"
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The Magazine ___ Last year, New York City handed out more than 877,000 noncriminal summonses.
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It has issued civil summonses to 12 people it said have defied the order.
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One day, George was ordered to deliver summonses on behalf of the Jewish Council.
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In 22016, the New York City police issued 93,29 summonses for operating such vehicles.
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Their investigators are authorized to serve summonses and subpoenas and assist with grand jury witnesses.
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Puerto Rico's Justice Department has issued summonses for everyone involved in the private chat group.
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The police said that woman had outstanding warrants for prior summonses for selling unlicensed food.
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The police said she had two outstanding warrants, for prior summonses for selling unlicensed food.
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Under the DA's office new policy, people who violate the law would be issued summonses.
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The number of summonses plunged from 25,000 in 1970 to fewer than 2,000 in 1972.
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They're making up things, they're giving me summonses and they're making me prove them wrong.
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"They were bogus summonses," said Sergeant Oro, a veteran with 29 years on the job.
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Over the past 12 months, police have issued at least seven summonses to Dr. Focazio.
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A Yale spokeswoman told the Times that police issued 42 misdemeanor summonses for disorderly conduct.
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The criminal case is built around breaches of an article of the law on legislative summonses.
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The city has issued summonses to 12 people for failing to comply with the city's order.
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Under the Council plan, many more of these offenders would face civil summonses, not criminal charges.
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Summonses for failure to yield rose to about 39,000 last year, from nearly 15,000 in 2013.
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Some of the officials have failed to comply with the summonses, she said, declining to elaborate.
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The agency already handles some summonses from police officers, often related to violations by street vendors.
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The plan relies on two enforcement tools: the officers' presence, and the issuance of civil summonses.
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The Suffolk County police said the protesters were being released after receiving summonses for court appearances.
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Again, I might have enough arrests, but I might not have enough C summonses for them.
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Still, the total of 644,494 summonses dismissed on Wednesday dwarfs the number resolved at such events.
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He was stuck in the Omega booth, with few opportunities to arrest anyone or issue summonses.
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Those people could pay $1,000 if the summonses are upheld and they still haven't gotten vaccinated.
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Others tried to show they were being ''proactive''; invariably this meant more stops, more summonses, more arrests.
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More than 20173,000 drivers were given summonses for speeding last year, compared with about 83,000 in 2013.
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Puerto Rico's Justice Department has issued summonses for everyone involved in the private chat group with Rosselló.
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The next email from the NYPD requested that the TLC retract the summonses issued to these vehicles.
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Not long ago, members of the force were expected to meet monthly quotas for arrests and summonses.
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Summonses can be paid online, and they can be contested that way as well, or by phone.
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The department is now focused on the ''quality'' of arrests and summonses rather than the ''quantity,'' he said.
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No summonses were issued, and the matter is expected to be settled by the two drivers' insurance companies.
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"It's feast or famine," he said, but he usually writes at least five or six summonses a day.
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The sheriff's office then issued summonses requiring voters to appear with proof of their continued eligibility to vote.
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The group has been whittled down to 26 from the 231,000 people who received jury summonses, WACH reported.
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Philadelphia is considering issuing $230 summonses to marchers blocking highways or failing to disperse, rather than arresting them.
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Last year, not counting parking and red-light tickets, the city handed out more than 877,000 noncriminal summonses.
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Under Mr. de Blasio, crime has remained at or near record lows while arrests and summonses have declined.
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Soon, lawmakers were introducing bills seeking to curtail the IRS&apos use of designated summonses and other tools.
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The NYPD agreed in the settlement to reaffirm that quotas for summonses, arrests and stops violated department policy.
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Each week, the office — Mr. Goodman superintended a staff of more than 21600 — issues some 6,000 jury summonses.
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Because of the large number of potential claims — the 900,000 summonses represent about one-quarter of all such summonses issued during the period — the deal lays out a process of notifying people who are eligible for compensation, which has been set at a maximum of $150 per person per incident.
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Summonses are adjudicated in a lightning-round format, most in less than a minute, some in a few moments.
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Lewis does not have a criminal arrest history, but has a number of summonses in and around the area.
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Earlier on Wednesday, Puerto Rico's Justice Department issued summonses for everyone involved in the private chat group with Rosselló.
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Governor not considering resigning Puerto Rico's Justice Department has issued summonses for everyone involved in the private chat group.
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Police officers will shift to issuing criminal summonses for public marijuana smoking, instead of making arrests, starting Sept. 1.
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Police also said they issued court summonses to some 50 people for underage drinking in the concert's surrounding lots.
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It also revealed on Twitter that during last night's travel ban, 25 summonses were issued and one DWI ticket.
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This weekend, the mayor told the NYPD to issue summonses for smoking pot in public, instead of making arrests.
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But the Sanitation Department, which accounts for nearly half of the summonses processed by OATH, nearly never sends anyone.
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Ms. Colon said she went to Iowa to ask the mayor to eliminate all arrests and summonses in schools.
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The tickets are criminal court summonses, which means you have to show up in court and issue a plea.
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In 2014, the mayor announced a similar plan to issue summonses instead of making arrests for carrying around marijuana.
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Mr. Rose's portfolio centered on a program called "Begin Again," designed to resolve low-level warrants tied to summonses.
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Despite the apparent utility of designated summonses, the IRS has used them only three times since the mid-&apos90s.
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He said that this was because they "changed their ways" and started making more arrests and giving more summonses.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Summonses, Not Arrests, for Small Crimes in Manhattan" (news article, March 2): Youth Represent applauds the decision of the Manhattan district attorney and the New York Police Department to encourage police officers to issue summonses to those accused of quality-of-life crimes, rather than arrest them.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday police officers will shift to issuing criminal summonses for public marijuana smoking starting Sept.
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A local lawyer says that 46 people in the village are similarly PFT and being "driven mad" by repeated summonses.
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The High Court judges agreed the summonses should be quashed, saying they would give their reasons at a later date.
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This decline, which began in 22013-20143, has coincided with a decrease in suspensions and school-related arrests and summonses.
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Of nearly 4.5 million stops conducted under the policy, only 6 percent resulted in arrests and 6 percent in summonses.
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Areas in the Bronx, which is 98 percent black and Hispanic, had similarly high rates of summonses for minor infractions.
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Since September 22018, the official policy has been to issue criminal summonses to people caught smoking (with a few exceptions).
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Racial disparities persist—78 percent of the people who received criminal summonses between 2016 and 2018 were Black or Latinx.
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That it's not just limited to Staten Island, with this board game, where they get points for arrests and summonses.
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Dr. Focazio added that he challenged the summonses in court; fines were paid to resolve all but one, he said.
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The administrative trials agency already handles thousands of police summonses for offenses such as littering or obstructing a fire hydrant.
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In June, the Police Department began directing its officers to issue civil tickets for those infractions instead of criminal summonses.
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His note went viral, and other people followed suit, posting their own police summonses on Facebook and asking for compensation.
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They also noted that people previously arrested on the same charges were issued summonses, not arrested and taken to jail.
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Not only are summonses down, but fewer New Yorkers are calling 234 to lodge complaints about lewd acts in public.
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Celebrities join protests July 17 Puerto Rico's Justice Department issued summonses for everyone involved in the private chat group with Rosselló.
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Instead of arresting indigent people, the NYPD has begun issuing summonses—which means the case is handled in the civil system.
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The Police Department on Thursday released data on arrests and summonses from the second half of the 22014-215 school year.
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Tales from the tiny offices where New Yorkers go to fight summonses for everything from unshoveled sidewalks to underheated hot dogs.
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Police officers have handed out a flurry of civil summonses to try to clamp down on disruptive behavior on the subway.
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When the new law went into effect, the Police Department directed its officers to issue civil tickets rather than criminal summonses.
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Absent an imminent threat to public safety, officers have been instructed to delay arrest or to issue summonses, not arrest warrants.
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The protesters were arrested, given summonses for trespassing and released at the scene, the Charleston Police Department said in a statement.
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Chief Boyce said Mr. Lewis had no criminal record but had received a few summonses for minor infractions involving suspicious behavior.
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Only 6% of the modern-slavery offences recorded by police in the year to March 2017 resulted in charges or court summonses.
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But the case cites a memorandum from a federal lawsuit over dismissed summonses that the city settled for $75 million last year.
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The $360 billion social network ignored seven summonses from U.S. tax investigators seeking information about how it manages its finances across borders.
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The Police Department already issues thousands of summonses that are handled in such courts, often for code violations related to street vendors.
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She pulled out a folder containing a thick stack of white envelopes, summonses that arrived in a constant stream in the mail.
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Mr. Rosenblatt said that as long as people went with the outreach workers for an initial assessment, their summonses would be waived.
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Twelve summonses have been issued so far, the city health department said; people who do not answer them can be fined $2,000.
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From June 215, 21977, to June 23 of this year, the Police Department said, 2700 summonses had been issued to costumed characters.
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Chief Boyce said Mr. Lewis had been given summonses three times, twice for Parks Department violations and once for urinating in public.
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Even as he handed out fewer summonses and made fewer arrests, few serious crimes were reported in the areas he patrolled, he says.
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Last week, the department issued summonses for everyone involved in the private Telegram Messenger chat group with the governor, spokeswoman Mariana Cobian said.
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Prosecutors also disclosed that they had sought to deliver summonses to Concord and the Internet Research Agency through the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.
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The first Monday of February, the 5th, was a likely date for officers to begin handing out summonses that carry a $200 fine.
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For a veteran of drinking-in-the-park-after-dark summonses back in Cunningham Park in Queens, this was the definition of sophistication.
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In 2009, at the height of zero-tolerance policing, the city handed out more than 500,000 summonses, compared with about 268,000 last year.
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Last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a bill that allows the police to use civil summonses for some quality-of-life offenses.
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Instead of being hauled off to jail, many people found with small amounts are given summonses and allowed to continue on their way.
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Police said she had been issued 10 summonses in the past five months for selling food without a license at the same station.
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Those summonses, and the 911 call, apparently pointed detectives toward Mr. Lewis, who Chief Boyce said lives with his mother and is unemployed.
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As a result, city officials said, the number of summonses for illegal parking has risen to 54,608 last year from 28,269 in 2016.
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As a state senator, he sponsored the bill that led, in 2010, to the New York ban against quotas for stops, summonses and arrests.
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Under the proposed legislation, police officers would be encouraged to issue civil summonses to New Yorkers for public urination and the other affected offenses.
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NYPD seems to be particularly fond of ticketing public drinkers, writing 124,498 summonses in 2011 for drinking in public, more than any other offense.
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Authorities began focusing on Lewis after a search of recently-issued summonses showed he was near the crime scene just days before the murder.
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As a "courtesy," court papers state, county sheriff's deputies served summonses on the targeted voters, commanding them to defend themselves at election board meetings.
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These voters were served with "courtesy" summonses ordering them to appear in person to prove their residence to officials or lose their voting rights.
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Take the 2.7 million summonses that, according to a Daily News analysis, were issued to people for nonviolent offenses between 2001 and June 2014.
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After Mr. Rizieq failed to respond to summonses — and was discovered to be in Saudi Arabia — the police declared him to be a fugitive.
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At the height of zero tolerance policing in 5203, the city issued 520,000 summonses — compared with about 294,000 in 2015, the latest available figure.
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FedEx, FreshDirect, Peapod and UPS racked up just over 22020,21970 summonses for parking violations in 21965, totaling $21975 million in fines, according to the city.
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Only 219 riders were issued summonses last year for having unauthorized animals on subways and buses, down from 261 in 2014, according to the police.
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Officers wrote nearly 15,300 tickets for cellphone use, including the one issued to Christie, as well as more than 7,000 careless driving summonses, he said.
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Then there was his program called Begin Again, which allowed Brooklyn residents with summonses and warrants for many small offenses to easily clear their names.
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In response to the complaints, the restaurant received a series of summonses for violating an ordinance that compels certain retailers to close at 303 p.m.
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The low "hit rates" — the rates at which people stopped were issued summonses or arrested and people frisked had weapons — are indicative of the problem.
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But critics say summonses can be overused–– partially because they are so easy to hand out––and disproportionately affect poor communities that are over-policed.
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The city has issued summonses to those not following vaccination requirements, and has closed some ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools where unvaccinated students were attending class.
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Summonses carry a fine varying from $25 to $100, including $100 for fare evasion, $75 for moving between subway cars and $50 for obstructing seats.
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During the first month of the program at P.S. 124, the cameras resulted in nearly 250 summonses a day being imposed on drivers whizzing past.
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But injustices, of course, did not end 10 years ago; summonses continued to be handed out in large numbers between 2008 and 2013, many unfairly.
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They say their complaints and lawsuits against government agencies have led to retaliatory harassment and summonses by enforcement officers from town, county and state agencies.
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In 2019, the police issued 1,123 summonses for the operation of such vehicles, but were unable to provide the number of bike or scooter seizures.
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"Quotas for arrests, summonses or stops have never been used by the N.Y.P.D.," J. Peter Donald, a police spokesman, said in a statement on Monday.
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"New training and technological advances have reduced the percentage of summonses dismissed as 'facially insufficient' every year since 2011," Mr. Donald, the police spokesman, said.
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The Fire Department said it issued four summonses to the store, Urban Garden Center, which is under the elevated tracks on Park Avenue in East Harlem.
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The issuance of summonses instead of arrests is expected to result in the diversion of approximately 10,000 arrests that would be prosecuted in Manhattan Criminal Court.
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And the policy is said to be fundamentally discriminatory toward blacks and Hispanics, who make up the broad majority of arrests and summonses in New York.
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School safety agents will be discouraged — but not explicitly banned — from arresting students or giving summonses for minor offenses like marijuana possession, graffiti or disorderly conduct.
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As Mr. De Lellis, 32, grew a family business from its base in Queens and on Long Island into Manhattan, he needed help managing the summonses.
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They also say Tsachas punished them for not meeting quotas for arrests and summonses by taking away their overtime and banishing them to the worst posts.
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So many summonses — the Ramapough estimated they receive up to $20153,500 a week in fines — that the town says the tribe owes more than $4 million.
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The suit alleges that between 2008 and 2011, officers were dispatched to the restaurant on numerous occasions to issue summonses for allegedly staying open past 10 p.m.
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Four delivery companies — FedEx, FreshDirect, Peapod and UPS — accumulated just over 515,000 summonses for parking violations in 2018, totaling $73 million in fines, according to the city.
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According to a 2014 investigation by the New York Daily News and New York Civil Liberties Union, the number of court summonses and misdemeanor arrests dramatically increased.
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To put those totals in perspective, more than 75,28 summonses were issued across the transit system in 2015, for matters such as fare evasion and seat obstruction.
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He has denied wrongdoing but has repeatedly missed summonses from the KPK for questioning in recent months, saying he was ill and needed to undergo heart surgery.
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"Substituting summonses for arrests is certainly an improvement, but not nearly enough," Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, told the Daily News.
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The widespread and systematic use of police-civilian encounters such as stop, frisk, and questioning, misdemeanor arrests, tickets, and summonses, for less serious offenses should be prohibited.
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The widespread and systematic use of increasing police-civilian encounters through stop, frisk and questioning, misdemeanor arrests, tickets and summonses for less serious offenses should be prohibited.
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Prosecutors have until December 28 to file the charges in court, according to the prosecutor's office, at which time the three men will receive summonses to appear.
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Critics say the summonses and subsequent warrants largely affect poor people and minorities, saddling people with arrest records that limit their access to jobs, education and housing.
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Starting Monday, police officers in Manhattan are supposed to stop arresting people for minor crimes like pissing and drinking in public and instead give them criminal summonses.
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The widespread and systematic use of increasing police-civilian encounters through stop, frisk, and questioning, misdemeanor arrests, and summonses for less serious offenses should be prohibited. 4.
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Police officers often have the discretion to issue tickets and summonses for many misdemeanors, and that's what they should do, rather than booking people on such charges.
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On the street, he continued to have trouble with the authorities, receiving more than 120 summonses and being arrested at least 20 times, according to the police.
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Mr. Gonzalez's office will also automatically vacate 3,438 open marijuana warrants stemming from summonses and is encouraging people to come forward to have misdemeanor arrest warrants cleared.
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The Police Department said on Thursday that before 2013, a significant number of littering summonses were issued to riders who had discarded depleted MetroCards on the ground.
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In 2015, 12 officers sued the city, alleging that retaliation and discrimination over the use of an illegal quota system for summonses and arrests violated their rights.
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The New York Police Department said on Thursday that it had issued 1,114 summonses for the operation of e-bicycles and e-scooters so far in 2019.
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City of New York found that ridiculously few stops resulted in arrests or summonses and that in nearly 90 percent, the people stopped had done nothing wrong.
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Until now the biggest user of such summonses in tax cases has been America, which, for instance, used the procedure in 2008 to prise open Swiss bank secrecy.
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The Fire Department, which is conducting an investigation of the cause of the blaze, issued four summonses to the garden center over the storage of gas and propane.
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Under the new policy, officers will issue criminal summonses for such offenses rather than making arrests except when they determine an offender poses a threat to public safety.
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Under his tenure, summonses and the use of the controversial tactic known as "stop and frisk" have decreased significantly (although they still are applied in racially disparate fashion).
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The emails reveal that in the summer of 2015, the NYPD received summonses from the TLC for two vehicles that did not have any visible proof of insurance.
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But the sergeant, Joe Oro, 54, refused, arguing that it was improper to write summonses weeks after the signs had been removed, with no witnesses to the violations.
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Since then, the police have arrested 17,500 people for marijuana possession on average a year, down from about 26,000 people in 2014, and issued thousands of additional summonses.
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Since then, the police have arrested 218,239 people for marijuana possession on average a year, down from about 227,000 people in 2014, and issued thousands of additional summonses.
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The suit challenged the constitutionality of the summons process and argued that the Police Department had pressured officers to issue sham summonses — an allegation that the city denied.
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The plan for a mass dismissal of summonses had been in the works since early 2014 and required extensive negotiations with the Police Department and the mayor's office.
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And the City Council passed a law last year creating civil tickets for minor offenses that used to lead to criminal summonses under municipal law, like public urination.
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The IRS would have a new process to follow in order to block appeals or designate summonses and would have to report to Congress when it did so.
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" Mr. Carter added, "This settlement reflects the remarkable progress the N.Y.P.D. has made to ensure that summonses are properly drafted and include sufficient details to document probable cause.
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The program included a provision to revise the summons form to allow officers to write down more details about an incident so that fewer summonses were later dismissed.
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Donie O'Sullivan and Paula "No Relation" Newton: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg did not attend a hearing in Ottawa on Tuesday, despite receiving summonses from the Canadian parliament.
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" Fabulous was charged with third-degree aggravated assault and third-degree terroristic threats and was later released on "two complaint/summonses issued by Englewood Municipal Court Judge Lesley Adams.
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Where I strongly agree with Mac Donald is on the importance of letting police officers make arrests (not just issue summonses) for fare beating (turnstile jumping) and disorderly conduct.
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This month, the city started an initiative to issue summonses to — rather than arrest — offenders with warrants for quality-of-life crimes like littering, unreasonable noise and public urination.
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A judge in Granada found that the woman, Juana Rivas, ignored summonses to appear in court when she went into hiding with her children for a month in 20093.
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OATH, the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, now handles violation summonses from 19 city agencies, from the health department to the Fire Department to the Business Integrity Commission.
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Public health emergencies have been declared in New York City and Rockland County; summonses have been issued to those not abiding by vaccination requirements; and schools have been closed.
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NATIONAL An article on Tuesday about fund-raising letters disguised as legal summonses sent to voters by Senator Ted Cruz's re-election campaign misstated the name of a newspaper.
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He placed a foot-high stack of papers in front of him — the summonses and related documents — and worked his way rapidly through them, making his case to the judge.
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As the operators were handing out popsicles from 2009 to 2017 they also were racking up 22,000 summonses and nearly $4.5 million in fines for traffic violations, the city said.
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In the few hours we spent with Lieutenant Marrero, he issued summonses for littering, failing to obey recycling laws and walking a dog off leash — and two for public urination.
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The whole city then followed suit, and police throughout the five boroughs now follow the policy of issuing summonses rather than arresting people for possession of small amounts of pot.
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A spokeswoman for the Police Department said there were no records of any officers even encountering the extract; last year, 15,000 summonses were issued for possessing small amounts of marijuana.
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Summonses are adjudicated by judges, who ask the recipient questions about the alleged violation or infraction before deciding whether to dismiss the ticket or impose a penalty, usually a fine.
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The New York City mayor, Bill de Blasio, earned some praise this summer when his Police Department announced it would instead give out criminal summonses for smoking marijuana in public.
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Officers instead wrote civil summonses, but fewer of them, according to data from the hearings office: about 12,000 for open container, 1,900 for public urination, and about 635 for littering.
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Although the city lost the ability to issue summonses to most speeders after the first section of law expired in July, the cameras remained on, tracking speeds and compiling data.
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New York partially decriminalized marijuana last year, and in most cases, police are required to issue summonses instead of arresting someone who is carrying more than 2 ounces of pot.
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The department's new rules lay out exceptions: Officers will not give a new civil summons to someone who has "three or more unanswered civil summonses" in the past eight years.
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The result was the blanketing of minority neighborhoods with criminal summonses that forced hundreds of thousands of people to live with a constant threat of jail time for minor infractions.
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Summonses for breaking the petsitting rules are rarely issued, according to the health department, and unlawful at-home dog-sitting businesses are not typically investigated unless a complaint is filed.
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A breakdown of how many of each had been subject to summonses was unavailable, but advocates for delivery workers said the police were generally more inclined to target electric bicycles.
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On each of them, a printed signature loomed sternly over the upper-left-hand corner: "Norman Goodman," the name appended to the borough's jury summonses for nearly half a century.
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Soros's father read one of the messages, and informed the boy that he was in fact delivering summonses that would ultimately result in the recipients being deported to concentration camps.
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Novanto had stayed in power through several previous corruption cases and repeatedly missed summonses for questioning by the anti-graft agency in connection with this case, saying he needed heart surgery.
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Summonses were also issued to the teen on accusations of speeding, reckless driving, failure to maintain a lane, failure to keep right, and violating the provisions of his provisional driver's license.
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Cops say Britt was charged with possession ... and was also hit with summonses for possession of a controlled dangerous substance in a motor vehicle and obstructing passage of other motor vehicles.
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The officers enforce quality-of-life laws like those that regulate picking up after pets, littering and public urination, and they issue summonses for stealing trash, failing to recycle and more.
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"Fresh summonses will be served on the United Kingdom and Hong Kong offices of Goldman Sachs ahead of the next court hearing on June 13," prosecutor Aaron Paul Chelliah told reporters.
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A City Hall aide told CNN that de Blasio instructed police to issue summonses for smoking weed — the same punishment for possessing a small amount of marijuana — instead of making arrests.
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But as the night went on, the officers issued summonses to half a dozen underage students, including two freshmen carrying wine and a pair of convincing fake IDs, complete with holograms.
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But the new approach — in which officers would usually issue summonses instead of hauling people off to jail — does not address the core problem of racial inequality and poses new dangers.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio said in late 183 that the police would largely give summonses instead of making arrests for carrying personal marijuana, and reserve arrests mainly for smoking in public.
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The thefts occurred while the city was working to reform criminal summonses that disproportionately burdened minority residents with tickets and criminal records, and resulted in an enormous backlog of arrest warrants.
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At the end of 2014, Mr. de Blasio said the police would largely give summonses instead of making arrests for carrying personal marijuana, and reserve arrests mainly for smoking in public.
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The Bronx district attorney, Darcel D. Clark, urged the police to give criminal summonses in lieu of arrests, but stopped short of saying her office would decline to prosecute any cases.
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The proposed policy would require officers to turn their cameras on when responding to a crime in progress; making arrests; issuing summonses; and conducting most searches, traffic stops and pedestrian stops.
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In New York City, UPS, FedEx, FreshDirect, and Peapod accumulated 240% more summonses for parking violations in 2018 than they did in 2013, according to a recent New York Times report.
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Three lawyers and two legal assistants help drivers contest parking tickets, summonses from the taxi commission and other violations — more than 3,000 of them so far — and accompany them to hearings.
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Police officers dealt with Mr. Vassell many times over the years, giving him 120 summonses and classifying him as emotionally disturbed after several calls during which they took him to a hospital.
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In 2014, the New York Daily News reported that in East Harlem North, a precinct with a population that is 90 percent black and Hispanic, there were 18 summonses per 100 residents.
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Last summer, when the police began issuing civil rather than criminal summonses for quality-of-life offenses like public drinking and urination and making noise, those came under the OATH umbrella, too.
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But the campaign has been sending fund-raising appeals marked as summonses to voters since at least May, when The San Antonio Express-News took issue with the tactic in an editorial.
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"I make it back to the garage in the nick of time," he writes — with three summonses, for blocking a crosswalk, parking more than 12 inches from the curb and impeding traffic.
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The decisions to dismiss the 644,000 summonses for minor offenses were based on the argument that people who have stayed out of trouble for a decade deserve to have such warrants erased.
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" The mass dismissal of summonses had the support of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said in a statement that old outstanding warrants "can derail lives, disrupt families and lead to job loss.
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The spot became so notorious that it also drew attention from the police: In some years, officers patrolling the park, in Upper Manhattan, would issue public-sex summonses about once a week.
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The suit centers on what they claim is one of the fundamental policies of the New York Police Department: requiring officers to meet fixed numerical goals for arrests and court summonses each month.
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He should have parliamentary immunity, but the courts say it does not apply, although CPP officials have ignored summonses to appear before the tribunal investigating atrocities under the Khmer Rouge regime without consequence.
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The IRS sent summonses to Novartis AG, Roche Holding AG's Genentech unit, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer AG, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and Biogen Inc seeking information about donations to Good Days, court papers show.
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Police officers already issue hundreds of thousands of summonses each year, but people who receive tickets often do not show up in court, resulting in a bench warrant being issued for their arrest.
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And that's even more amazing—not only did you get twenty-five summonses, but you got twenty-five in the exact order they required: three of these, five of those, fifteen of these.
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Your odds of beating a ticket at an OATH hearing are not bad: 44 percent of the 223,000 summonses that were contested last year got dismissed, up from 39 percent the year before.
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The city has also issued summonses to 57 residents of Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood — where more than 80 percent of the city's cases have occurred — for refusing to get themselves or their children vaccinated.
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When his father read one of the messages, he saw that they were in fact summonses, orders for Jewish individuals to report to a rabbinical seminar with food for two days and blankets.
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He was a police detective checking on parking summonses issued in Brooklyn on July 31, the night the gunman known as Son of Sam shot a couple in a car in Bath Beach.
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The IRS sent summonses to Novartis AG, Roche Holding AG's Genentech unit, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer AG, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and Biogen Inc seeking information about donations to Good Days, according to court papers.
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But Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, and the police commissioner, William J. Bratton, have said they are committed to the approach, and officers still write hundreds of thousands of criminal summonses a year.
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"This will likely overshadow any other news, despite the temporary relief granted by a better-than-expected July inflation print," chief Africa economist at Standard Chartered Bank Razia Khan said, referring to the summonses.
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Part of the Tea & Sympathy dining experience is hearing Ms. Perry speak her mind, often very loudly, about issues like the city giving parking summonses to the shop's delivery vehicle — a classic London cab.
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Recipients of those summonses were deported — to concentration camps across Eastern Europe, including Auschwitz, a concentration camp and death camp in Poland where more than half a million Hungarian Jews were murdered by 1945.
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City of New York, the city agreed to pay up to $75 million to resolve a federal class-action lawsuit that accused it of issuing hundreds of thousands of criminal summonses without legal justification.
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The lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, Sharif L. Stinson, received two summonses in March 2010 in the Bronx for disorderly conduct and trespassing, Mr. Fitch, the plaintiff lawyer, said in an interview in 2015.
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It's a small sample size, but in the last three months of 2015, the number of court summonses handed out in Bronx schools decreased by 60 percent compared to the same time period in 2012.
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Lt. Russo later suggested detectives look into Lewis as a possible suspect, and it was soon learned he had been issued several summonses near the scene of Vetrano's death days before her August 2016 slaying.
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Filed in 2010, the lawsuit alleged that the NYPD officers engaged in a pattern and practice in which they stop, searched, arrested and issued summonses to individuals regardless of whether a crime or violation occurred.
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Novanto, who had been implicated in five graft scandals since the 1990s but never convicted, was detained by KPKinvestigators in November after repeatedly missing summonses for questioning over the case, saying he needed heart surgery.
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Mr. de Blasio estimated that giving most people summonses for smoking in public would eliminate about 10,000 arrests per year — more than half the total number — which is clearly an improvement over the status quo.
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The city recently cut the number of summonses issued and encouraged officers to shift many common petty offenses into civil court, where people can avoid criminal records and can sometimes make amends through community service.
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All told, between 2001 and 2013, black and Hispanic people were more than four times as likely as whites to receive summonses for minor violations, according to an analysis by the New York Civil Liberties Union.
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In April the tables were turned when a request from Finland prompted America's Internal Revenue Service to petition a federal court in North Carolina for leave to serve John Doe summonses on three banks in America.
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"He put two and two together," the source says, and investigators began reviewing records to discover that Lewis had been issued several summonses near the scene of Vetrano's death — one just days before the August slaying.
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The deal, announced on Monday by the city's Law Department, would resolve a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court brought by several plaintiffs who claimed they were issued summonses without probable cause that were later dismissed.
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"This settlement reflects the remarkable progress the NYPD has made to ensure that summonses are properly drafted and include sufficient details to document probable cause," New York City Corporation Counsel Zachary Carter said in a statement.
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Summonses for unlawful possession of marijuana, a noncriminal violation, can come with fines up to $100, though city officials said the fine amounts were ultimately up to judges and could change depending on someone's criminal history.
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Between October 2017 and June 2019, black and Hispanic New Yorkers received nearly 70 percent of all civil summonses for fare evasion, despite making up just more than half of the city's population, the statement said.
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The problem with the 10-year argument is that it does not include the tail end of the "zero tolerance" period, from 2008 to 2013, when the Police Department issued 426,000 to 520,000 summonses a year.
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"In fact, this policy allows N.Y.P.D. officers to conduct more enforcement of subway crimes," Mr. Vance added, because officers are encouraged to hand out summonses and return to the beat, rather than spending time in court.
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For now, the project is just a pilot program at five Bronx high school campuses (which house dozens of schools) that use warnings instead of court summonses for two kinds of infractions: pot possession and disorderly conduct.
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It was a summer of summonses: I had to run the equivalent of a national law firm on top of the campaign just for Ralph to remain a choice for voters and mathematically viable for the presidency.
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Of the 2.29 million summonses adjudicated in the city's criminal courts from 2004 to 2009, nearly 1.19 million were dismissed, the bulk of which the plaintiffs said were dismissed after a judge found they were legally insufficient.
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Such violations, while minor, made up a huge portion of the roughly 300,000 criminal summonses issued by city officers last year, many of them written in minority neighborhoods where the police must also address more serious crimes.
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The Justice Department did not issue summonses for those involved in the chats until several days after the scandal was publicized, and also gave the participants a few days to turn over their cell phones for inspection.
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The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco seeking to enforce IRS summonses served on Facebook and force the company to produce various documents as part of the agency's examination.
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The police said that Lauletta was involved in a similar episode at the same location on Monday, and that summonses were issued by mail for that offense because the police did not stop him at the scene.
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Around 17,500 people are arrested each year on marijuana possession charges in New York City, but Mr. de Blasio said about 10,000 of those arrests would be eliminated and replaced with criminal summonses under the new policy.
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After years of public debate and months of negotiations, New York City began directing its police officers on Tuesday to issue civil tickets rather than criminal summonses for petty offenses such as public drinking and public urination.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has approved New York City's $75 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit accusing its police department of issuing hundreds of thousands of criminal summonses without legal justification to meet quotas.
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The summonses had been issued for typically minor offenses, like disorderly conduct, trespassing and drinking in public — quality-of-life concerns that had been a major theme of policing in New York for two decades or so.
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Under the settlement, the New York Police Department will issue guidance to reiterate that the department does not use quotas to mandate that officers make a particular number of arrests, summonses or stops, a Law Department spokesman said.
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Big Apple In New York City, the power outages affected traffic lights but resulted in "no arrests, no summonses, no reports of any problems at all," NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio said at a Monday morning news conference.
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Rosselló says he will not run for re-election As part of the summonses, the chat participants -- which include 11 of Rosselló's top aides and Cabinet members -- were ordered to hand over their cellphones for inspection, Cobian said.
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"This will be more of the same, and our clients — New Yorkers from communities of color — will continue to suffer more of the same from a police department that prioritizes arrests and summonses above all else," she said.
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The Police Department and the Council are still negotiating over guidelines for when each would be used, with the civil tickets expected to serve as the default approach and criminal summonses issued for recidivists and those with warrants.
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The department said there had been a 227 percent decrease in arrests and a 37 percent decrease in summonses issued by the school safety division from January to June of 2016, compared with the same period in 2015.
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Instead, it focuses on the facts that in some boroughs, criminal courts are open past midnight, lines for warrant forgiveness events are known to scale an entire block, and that in 2015, cops gave out 297,413 criminal summonses.
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At the evening gatherings at the Christian Orthodox Church of Christ the Savior, they light candles, catch up on the latest police summonses, and swap tips for answering interrogators' questions and rumors of the whereabouts of Mr. Dragicevic.
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Carrying personal marijuana is already supposed to lead to summonses instead of arrests in New York City under a policy announced in late 2014, but that policy allowed officers to continue to make arrests for smoking in public.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian prosecutors on Monday said they would issue summonses to units of U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs in London and Hong Kong, requiring them to respond by June to criminal charges filed against them last year.
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Together, the law would set a preference for police officers to hand out civil penalties, rather than criminal summonses, for those who are caught with an open container, littering, urinating in public, making unreasonable noise, or violating park rules.
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But Mayor Bill de Blasio eventually embraced the approach when the Council and the Police Department reached a compromise that would allow officers to retain the option of issuing criminal summonses — and therefore, their arrest power in those encounters.
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About two years after the installation of the cameras, that number had dropped to 54 summonses every day, a nearly 80 percent decline, making it clear that the electronic monitoring was having its intended effect of slowing drivers down.
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Just last month, the city agreed to pay up to $75 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming that hundreds of thousands of summonses were issued by the police without legal justification and disproportionately singled out minority citizens.
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New York City, meanwhile, has issued at least 123 civil summonses to people who have refused to submit to the city's order requiring residents of certain Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods to get their shots, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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In predominantly black Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, for example, officers issued more than 2,000 summonses a year between 2008 and 2011 to people riding their bicycles on the sidewalk, according to the Marijuana Arrest Research Project, a nonprofit that studies police policy.
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On Thursday, she called for the creation of a system to clear a mountain of old arrest warrants that often emerge out of summonses for minor crimes, plague the court system and can result in New Yorkers' languishing on Rikers Island.
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Nor are there monitors this year in Hancock County, which the Justice Department did monitor in 2016; the county has been criticized for issuing summonses that require people to prove their voter registrations and adopting hyper-stringent standards for voting.
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Authorities have arrested the chief of police and another police officer in White, Georgia, on allegations that both men arrested people on bogus charges, then offered them summonses for lesser crimes, collecting thousands in fines that went directly into their pockets.
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"The News found the correlation between race and summonses was not strong for offenses like motor vehicle violations and unlawful possession of alcohol for a minor," Sarah Ryley, Laura Bult, and Dareh Gregorian wrote for the New York Daily News.
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The deal came on top of other reforms enacted under Mayor Bill de Blasio, who in June signed a law that would give the NYPD the ability to issue civil rather than criminal summonses for certain quality-of-life offences.
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The Texas-based charity, previously known as Chronic Disease Fund Inc, has since February filed several lawsuits in federal courts in three states and the District of Columbia to quash summonses the IRS served on drug companies that donated to it.
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The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco seeking to enforce IRS summonses served on Facebook and to force the world's largest social network to produce various documents as part of the probe.
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The move does not make it legal to smoke marijuana in public, but the mayor said that police will issue criminal summonses, the same punishment for possessing a small amount of marijuana, instead of arresting people caught smoking pot in public.
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The offenses included in the bills, which also cover littering and excessive noise, are part of the city's administrative code and make up a large percentage of the roughly 300,000 criminal summonses issued by officers last year, many in minority neighborhoods.
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A statistical study of nearly 4.5 million stops produced at trial showed that only 6 percent of stops resulted in arrests and 6 percent resulted in summonses — which meant that 88 percent of the people stopped had been doing nothing wrong.
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By his own admission — or really, boasting — Mr. Davidson has received nearly 200 summonses over the years for violations that include occupying excessive sidewalk space and leaving books unattended as well as more serious crimes involving fights with other vendors.
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In the weeks that followed, a team of enforcement officers from the parks department arrived at Mr. Ricatto's house, he said, and issued him 22 summonses with fines totaling $1,500 and citing unauthorized posting and "minor tree damage" to 11 trees.
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Two government ministers have also been summoned to appear before the Supreme Court in contempt cases, and lower courts have issued contempt summonses to Mr. Sharif and his daughter and political heir, Maryam Nawaz, because of speeches critical of the judiciary.
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The City Council and the district attorneys argue that people who have stayed out of trouble for a decade after committing minor violations deserve to have their warrants expunged — particularly since many of the summonses were issued unjustly or unnecessarily.
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Summonses had typically been issued for minor offenses, such as disorderly conduct and drinking alcohol in public, as part of a "broken windows" approach to policing quality-of-life concerns that the New York Police Department adopted in the 1990s.
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The lawsuit (filed in New York, where Clearview is based) is at its very earliest stages and has only been assigned a judge, and summonses sent to Clearview and CDW Government, the intermediary for selling its services to law enforcement.
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Many of the summonses appeared to breach the right to due process and a fair trial, and some of those detained had been charged with "incitement to commit a felony", which was not appropriate for expressing political support, they said.
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Twitter contends the request amounts to an "unlawful" use of the government's investigative powers, as the rules that allow customs and border officials to issue summonses generally relate to the import of merchandise, including counterfeit goods — not information involving online accounts.
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Some officers, trying to increase their totals of summonses and arrests for the month, hide in bathrooms and closets meant for subway employees, peeking out through vents so they can jump out at anyone foolish or desperate enough to vault the turnstiles.
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Not all violators— alleged violators, rather—accept their summonses without a fight, which is what brought Pakenham, the other day, to the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, or OATH , on John Street, where he had a handful of old cases awaiting adjudication.
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Currently, between 1,753 to 1,800 summonses per week are issued for prohibited transit conduct — including jumping turnstiles, stretching out in subways cars and on platforms, smoking and drinking alcohol — which is about 16 percent more than in 2016, according to police officials.
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The following month, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the Police Department would cut down on arrests for publicly smoking by more than half and give people summonses instead, but would continue to arrest some individuals who have past arrests or convictions. Gov.
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That was underscored in a settlement this year, when the city agreed to pay up to $75 million to settle a class-action suit charging that the police disproportionately singled out minority citizens while issuing hundreds of thousands of summonses without legitimate cause.
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Police are working with U.S. State Park Police to look into all previous arrests and summonses issued in the area (so far, two have been detected from May), as well as investigating anyone who uses the park and looking at video and forensic evidence.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has agreed to pay up to $75 million to resolve a class action lawsuit accusing its police of engaging in a widespread pattern of issuing criminal summonses to individuals without probable cause in order to meet minimum quotas.
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"Events of the past few days regarding summonses served on Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan have been of concern to many South Africans across all sectors of society," said Ramaphosa, who is seen as a strong contender to replace Zuma when his term ends in 2019.
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" The red lanterns were not a problem, apparently, because the Police Department was in on the game and had agreed that scavenger hunters "who had taken red lanterns from the streets would not receive summonses if the lanterns were returned within a reasonable time.
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By doing so, the new rules would attempt to lift some of the 42 percent of all NYC criminal summonses that involve this sort of low-level BS, thereby allowing the clogged system to focus on more serious stuff, like gun violence or domestic abuse.
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In January, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito unveiled the Criminal Justice Reform Act of 2016; if passed, it would give cops the discretion to hand out either civil penalties or (criminal) summonses, as called for under the new Manhattan policy, for low-level offenses.
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We'll start with the measles controversy: Three New York parents face $220006,2202 fines for failing to vaccinate children New York City public health officials said they issued summonses to the parents of three children Thursday for failing to vaccinate their children against the measles.
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Anticorruption officials issued a warrant for his arrest last week after he had failed to respond to nearly a dozen summonses to appear for questioning over accusations of his involvement in the embezzling of more than $170 million from a national identity card program.
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No, I don't think that they're presenting false statistics, but look what happened the other day when the mayor's saying summonses are down 90 percent — that doesn't mean that public urination has gone down or that smoking marijuana in the street has gone down.
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Malaysian prosecutors had previously issued summonses to three Goldman Sachs units in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore, requiring them to respond to criminal charges filed against them over bond issues that the bank had arranged for state fund 423Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
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In perhaps the most consequential moment, she announced that the Council would work with four of the city's five district attorneys — Staten Island being the lone holdout — to do away with outstanding warrants for low-level summonses that were more than 10 years old.
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Since January 2014, the start of the two-year period during which Raymond made most of his recordings, the department has been led by Police Commissioner William Bratton, who has presided over a decline in summonses and arrests even as crime levels have remained historically low.
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The results were clear: Officers who had worked during the CompStat era were twice as likely as their predecessors to say that they had been under intense pressure to increase arrests, and three times as likely to say the same about the pressure to increase summonses.
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But it has yet to incorporate training on "implicit bias" and "procedural justice" for the entire force of 36,000 officers, who are expected to draw on such knowledge not only for street stops but also in writing summonses, aiding victims and making arrests, the report said.
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"According to a U.S. Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks, TNK-BP's C.E.O., Robert Dudley, sometimes came home at night and found papers on his kitchen table: legal summonses compelling him to appear at hearings far from Moscow, with only a few hours' notice," The New Yorker wrote.
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That design has, perhaps not so coincidentally, been followed by an evasion "epidemic"—and at least 22018,236 civil summonses being handed out to alleged fare beaters between November 22017 and April 270 on a handful of bus routes in that borough and the Bronx, among other locations.
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Sure. But the NYPD clarified to the screeching Twitter mob that she had continued to recklessly sell sweet, sweet churros after receiving 10 summonses over six months—all the information I, a white man, need to convince myself of my own moral superiority in this matter.
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The NYCLU is currently urging for the passage of the Criminal Justice Reform Act, which would in part help divert the millions of people who receive summonses each year for quality of life violations that could barely be considered crimes, away from the criminal justice system.
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Two thousand summonses were issued in the hope of getting 500 potential jurors to report Tuesday to the State Supreme Court, where the judge and lawyers for both sides will begin whittling the pool down to 12 people and six alternates, said Lucian Chalfen, a court spokesman.
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NEW YORK, April 218 (Reuters) - New York City has issued civil summonses to 22000 people it said were not complying with a mandatory measles vaccination order as the number of recorded cases in the city's worst outbreak since 2383 rose to 390, according to data released on Wednesday.
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"I saw what was happening to the [do-it-yourself] venues," he says, "and I volunteered in 2008 to represent pro bono all the people who had been given summonses or tickets as a result of a raid on the [venue] Market Hotel," a place he'd made recordings.
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The majority-white Hancock County Board of Elections and Registration was systematically questioning the registrations of more than 2000 black Sparta citizens — a fifth of the city's registered voters — by dispatching deputies with summonses commanding them to appear in person to prove their residence or lose their voting rights.
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In 2017, Councilman Rory Lancman, who represents Jamaica and other neighborhoods in Queens, introduced legislation requiring the NYPD to report the number of arrests and summonses issued for subway fare evasion on a quarterly basis, broken down by subway station, transit bureau district, and race, sex, and age group.
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Instead, public drinking, along with a slew of other low-level offenses such as public urination, littering, and various subway offenses, will now only result in court summonses rather than arrests, unless "there is a demonstrated public safety reason to do so," according to the New York County district attorney's office.
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"This will be more of the same, and our clients — New Yorkers from communities of color — will continue to suffer more of the same from a police department that prioritizes arrests and summonses above all else," said Tina Luongo, who leads the criminal defense practice at the Legal Aid Society.
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With a proposed court settlement filed on Monday, the city is trying to turn the page on a period when black and Latino New Yorkers in some neighborhoods were routinely stopped and frisked by police officers or issued unjustified criminal summonses for minor offenses, like disorderly conduct, trespassing or public drinking.
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"The people who have these warrants have not been in trouble with the law for a decade or more, and it is time that they are given the opportunity to live productive lives, free from summonses hanging over their heads," Darcel D. Clark, the Bronx district attorney, said in court.
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"He said, 'The problem is, it's like a third-world country up there,'" Mr. Davidson recounted, adding that he has almost always won dismissals by pointing out errors on the summonses and noting that free speech laws permit him to sell printed material without the city permits that other vendors must obtain.
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Two-thirds of those given criminal summonses for marijuana possession last year were black or Hispanic, and 13 percent were white, with the race of many of those given tickets — the vast majority in certain precincts — not specified in police records, according to data the Police Department provided to the City Council.
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In another disciplinary change, the Police Department is testing a new program that gives school safety agents, who are in charge of school security, the discretion to hand out warning cards to students who are 16 or older, instead of issuing criminal summonses for disorderly conduct or possession of small amounts of marijuana.
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Last year, Mckesson, with Elzie, Brittany Packnett, and Samuel Sinyangwe, a twenty-five-year-old data analyst with a degree from Stanford, launched Campaign Zero, a list of policing-policy recommendations that calls for, among other things, curtailing arrests for low-level crimes, reducing quotas for summonses and arrests, and demilitarizing police departments.
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New York City has agreed to pay up to $22015 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that accused its Police Department of issuing hundreds of thousands of criminal summonses that were later found to be without legal justification, according to a signed copy of the proposed deal filed on Monday.
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A unanimous three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the rangers, who were backed in their appeal by the U.S. Department of Labor, could not have done their jobs patrolling parks, issuing summonses and making arrests without the equipment they were required to don before clocking in to work.
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Targeting homeless people on the subway with summonses has been criticized by advocates for the homeless and others as a wrongheaded approach that punishes people for having no home, adds to their burden by imposing fines they cannot afford to pay and entangles them in a legal system they are ill equipped to navigate.
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Councilman Rory I. Lancman, a Queens Democrat, said the lack of information on fare-evasion arrests and summonses violates the law, and he and the nonprofit Community Service Society filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan in an effort to compel the mayor and the Police Department to release the data.
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Editorial New York City is wisely backing away from an abusive "zero tolerance" policing strategy that led officers to blanket minority communities with criminal summonses for minor infractions — like drinking beer in public or sitting in a park after dark — and was based on the discredited premise that petty misconduct leads to serious crime.
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In a review of a month's worth of public drinking tickets in Brooklyn, a New York City judge's staff in 2012 found that, as reported by the New York Times, "85 percent of the summonses were issued to blacks and Latinos, while only 4 percent were issued to whites" — even though 36 percent of Brooklyn's population is white.
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The police and the district attorneys have reduced the number of people prosecuted on minor marijuana charges; the City Council passed a law last year creating civil tickets for minor offenses that used to lead to criminal summonses; and in June, the Manhattan district attorney's office announced it would no longer prosecute most people arrested on fare-beating charges.
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In his testimony, Tsachas offered a series of similarly evasive answers to claims that he'd ordered cops to racially profile citizens ("I discussed crime statistics with officers"), enforced quotas for arrest and summonses ("I have expectations"), and gave plum overtime assignments to cops who made more arrests while stripping them from those who didn't ("They don't deserve it").
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"The truth is that if the cops are having fewer enforcement interfaces—arrests for fare evasion, summonses for violations such as smoking or urinating in the subway, fewer ejections (a power transit cops have)—this will probably result in less pre-emption of violent acts and also may embolden people who are prone to acting out," O'Donnell explains.
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The decline in arrests and summonses is now highlighted by police officials as a positive sign of the department's efforts to improve police-community relations, with no adverse effect on overall crime: Shootings through June were down to the lowest level for any six-month period in history; murders were also down more than 7 percent compared with last year's lows.
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"People who write headlight summonses walk footposts in the rain and snow," it read, before adding, "(or will do so soon.)" It was probably the most visual demonstration ever that police quotas are a fact of life in New York City—a practice, that, although the city vehemently denies it, is taken for granted by many cops, policymakers, journalists, and residents.
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NYPD WILL START ISSUING SUMMONSES, NOT ARRESTS, FOR MARIJUANA CBC reports that several amendments were stripped from the final bill, including one that would have banned the sale of branded "swag" by pot companies and another that would have created a public registry of investors in cannabis companies to dissuade criminal gangs from trying to gain a foothold in the market with offshore tax havens.
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Last week, a magistrate agreed to issue summonses for Johnson to face charges of misconduct in public office over a claim emblazoned on his bright red "Leave" campaign bus that Britain would be 350 million pounds ($446 million) a week better off outside the EU. Opponents had argued that the slogan was deliberately misleading and it became symbolic of the divisions caused by the referendum, which saw Britons vote 52-48% to leave the European Union.
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