Today while driving in my neighborhood, I saw a "No Loitering" sign posted on a telephone pole. Is this enforceable and if so how?
How do you know who is loitering and who is just shooting the breeze with their neighbor?
Does this give the police free rein to stop and frisk anyone (which they do anyway) who is stopped in front of their home or their neighbor's home? I remember when the Nazis came and the police told the residents to go home and they said that they were at home and the rioting began. By the same token does a "No Loitering" sign belong in a neighborhood?
- if you are white, it's just 'shooting the breeze'.
Any other color and you are loitering.
us where this sign is at?
Rockingham between Fulton and Collingwood. Going North on Fulton from Delaware turn left onto Rockingham and the first telephone pole on the right hand side, has the sign on it.
---------
"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually dirty kitchen, and
five times out of nine I'll show you an exceptional man." -Charles
Bukowski
Tonight at the corner of Detroit and Delaware.
That corner was noted to have a high concentration of problems, related to drug dealing and some gang activity, if I remember correctly.
Detroit and Delaware has a corner store. The sign on Rockingham is no where near any commercial business. This is a street where people live.
I understand that point and concern.
I am also guessing that some where on Elm or other streets on the east side of Lagrange there maybe some more signs, as that area has been noted to have drug problems.
..is that this is just a way to pick-up dealers, junkies, or whores. They could get them off the street even without necessarily having prove they were engaged in illicit activity.
I remember seeing "No Standing" signs in detroit.. My guess is that they're not aimed at directed towards the guy walking his dog or shooting the shit with his neighbors.
My guess is that they're not aimed at directed towards the guy walking his dog or shooting the shit with his neighbors.
Sure, tell me about it. Let two or three neighbors get together in front of someone's home and watch what the police do. Police don't need a loitering law to roust whores and junkies.