Cleaning up the neighborhood
As one response to the Kegs and Eggs riot, Albany Common Council members Leah Golby and Anton Konev are working to implement a Pine Hills Community Accountability Board, and they're looking for people interested in participating. The neighborhood board could assign community service requirements to perpetrators of non-violent quality-of-life crimes like public urination and noise ordinance violations. The DA's office will hold a training session this Saturday for people interested in joining this or any of the city's other Community Accountability Boards. Though the RSVP date was last Friday, Leah says the DA's office will accept registrations through Thursday.
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Great, a bunch of brownshirt busybodies who will find transient college student residents impossible to enforce against, but which I'm sure will be more than willing to flex their penny-ante authority against permanent residents.
If the d-bags weren't enough to drive you out of the neighborhood, this should do the trick...
... said Ike on Mar 29, 2011 at 6:02 PM | link
I have lived in the same house all my life,
in the Pine Hills.
Wish it was still like the old days!
I was used to things never getting better.
Putting up with the horrid behavior of the students.
Am glad the kegs, and egg behavior was stupidly filmed by the tons of students that were there!
This gave the city officials a big wake up call!
Hope this plan of Leah's works.
But,i do not think the spoiled,pampered, you can do no wrong upbrining of some of these brats will ever change!
Their parents are to blame for a lot of their actions.
Maybe i should have sent videos of their actions filmed in front of my house to the colleges,and parents a long time ago!
... said mg on Mar 30, 2011 at 9:20 AM | link
Aren't there worse neighborhoods in Albany, like ones where violent crimes take place?
... said Ron on Mar 30, 2011 at 10:46 AM | link