Eugene OR City Council To Make Downtown Off Limits To Criminals

[Chief]

"I swear that I am not making this up."

Dave Barry


http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7011731221

Eugene, OR (AHN) - Eugene city officials fed up with crime are mulling an ordinance that will keep convicts and would-be criminals out of the downtown area for up to one year.

Under the proposal, which is awaiting the council's vote pending the conclusion of a public hearing, a person charged with a crime such as robbery or assault would be banned from downtown Eugene for 90 days. Convicted criminals will not be allowed downtown for one year.

The proposal from councilors Andrea Ortiz and Mike Clark drew mixed reactions from the police and merchants supporting the ban and human rights advocates opposing it. The proposed ordinance would be effective in fighting crime and blight that have picked up due to the economic downturn, Chief of Police Robert Lehner told ABCNews.com.

Exclusion of offenders should be left up to the municipal court's decision, lawyers of the American Civil Liberties Union said in a public hearing on the ordinance on Monday.


What makes them think that the criminals will obey this law any more than the ones they broke to make them criminals in the first place?

Pray for the big one down in Eugene, and when the earthquake is over we can bulldoze the place flat and start over.

[Waterbuffalo]

Maybe we should send them down the AIA ordinance to help them out? (not joking..)

[Chief]

Idiotic liberals, running amok.

We should move Eugene closer to Berkely, CA where it will be closer to the epicenter...

cewl

[Waterbuffalo]

Well you better watch out for what you wish, because the farther you push south, the farther the notions they spring come closer to home..

[Chief]

I'm just sick and tired of these pissant City Councilors who pass idiotic things like this in an attempt to out-liberal the next group.

Oregon is blessed by God, but cursed by Eugene and Portland...

ddrrii

[dawgfan451]

I thought Bush was the one taking all the civil rights away. Is Eugene's court house downtown? Is the jail downtown? Maybe it is the liberals way of not putting anyone in jail, or putting anyone on trial because when they are charged they can't go downtown. This requires a little more research.

[Waterbuffalo]

Dawg: You willing to pull out all the stops and research the subject matter?

[dawgfan451]

The courthouse and jail are downtown. Including the Lane County jail. Wonder how this will work.

[Waterbuffalo]

Will this become a crime circle like in Portland where they come out of Jail and go right back in for three hots and a cots just to stay out of the heat of the summer and cold in the winter?

So many opportunities and ways this could be taken.

[Chief]

The courthouse and jail are downtown. Including the Lane County jail. Wonder how this will work.

Now that's a good question...

And with gas at over $4.00 a gallon, how much will it cost per criminal, to drive them all to Corvallis for a drop-off??

mrgrn

[Waterbuffalo]

Hey now, how about drive them up to the nearly empty Wapato Jail near Sauvie Island? mrgrn

Would they not have to buy carbon credits to offset all of this driving to and from the Jail?

[dawgfan451]

I think they could take them over in rickshaws to cut on the carbon footprint. Or would that add to the carbon footprint, because of the extra food needed to supply the energy. What if its organic. But do cows for the manure add to the carbon footprint? I am so confused.

Better yet lets just put them in stocks just outside of downtown.

[Waterbuffalo]

Well Rickshaws sound like a good start. Will that carry all the College students going to U of O?

is carbon foot printing where one rubs their foot in shale or other fine particles and create a sidewalk motif?