That s the sentiment of some local businesses.
Studies have shown that pilfering those wheeled carts and purposefully pushing a shopping cart off the premises of a business technically constitutes a theft costs businesses across the country millions of dollars each year.
In Fall River there’s even a local ordinance that exclusively pertains to the taking and abandonment of shopping carts.
Environment Article III of Chapter 26 which is intended to eliminate a public nuisance and potential health and safety hazards makes the shopping cart owner liable to a possible fine and forfeiture of the cart, in the event of it having been abandoned on a city street or sidewalk.
Northampton Arts Council becomes 1st city board to back activist group’s call to defund police by 50%
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The Northampton Arts Council last week became the first city board or agency to back a local activist organization’s call to defund the community’s police department by 50%.
At the group’s April 3 meeting, the cultural council, which works to fund, promote and present high-quality arts programming in it Northampton, voted to sign onto the official demands of Northampton Abolition Now (NAN), including its call for the significant cut to the police department’s budget.
The 11-member arts council held a five-minute period of silence and reflection before a majority voted to back NAN’s list of demands. The members who voted yes are Dana Osterling, Danielle Amodeo, Jesse Hassinger, Kent Alexander, Lori Steiner, Michael Abbatiello, Rachel Hart and Thulani Davis. Eamonn Crowley-Edge opted to abstain from voting, and Freeman Stein cast a no vote. One member
AMHERST An unarmed and civilian program whose workers would respond to many calls for service in place of town police officers is being proposed by the Community Safety Working Group. The group is also proposing a robust Civilian Oversight Board to.
Gerard Simonette: Cautions against using word ‘abolition’ in police reform
Published: 4/23/2021 12:35:20 PM
As reported in the Gazette, the groups including Northampton Abolition Now, held a “Spring Abolition Festival” in Pulaski Park this past Sunday, April 18. The organizations’ stated objectives are to reform local police departments by shifting some current police functions to other agencies such as a proposed Department of Community Care.
With the long history of national policing abuses, and especially with more recent examples of police overreach, it is certainly the time to establish reforms to guarantee that police provide public safety while maintaining citizens’ rights.
What I see as a danger, however, is the use of the term “abolition” to advance that cause. Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “Abolish” as, “To do away with, wholly: to annul; to make void.” In this case, to employ this word implies that the group is seeking to do away wit
NORTHAMPTON Joining a chorus of others, the city’s Arts Council voted last week to sign on to demands by the group Northampton Abolition Now and support cuts to the city’s Police Department budget. The demands ask for the immediate reallocation of.