{"id":187257,"date":"2013-04-29T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/29\/this-is-repulsive-2\/"},"modified":"2013-04-29T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T01:12:00","slug":"this-is-repulsive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/29\/this-is-repulsive-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Repulsive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norristown, PA has a policy of <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/514158\/pennsylvania-town-plan-to-curb-disorderly-conduct-includes-evicting-battered-women#more-514158\">trying to evict victims of domestic violence<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Gosh. Norristown, Pennsylvania seems like it must be a real nice  place to live what with its strict schoolmarm rule against \u201cdisorderly  behavior.\u201d In order to be fair, however, the rule applies not only to  those who perpetrate \u201cdisorderly behavior\u201d but also to those who might  happen to be <i>victims<\/i> of it. Best legal system in the world! Watch and learn, America: The Norristown police <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/womens-rights-lgbt-rights-racial-justice-criminal-law-reform\/shut-or-get-out-pa-city-punishes\" target=\"_&quot;blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener\">notified<\/a> a woman whose boyfriend assaulted her that she was being evicted for the crime of disturbing the peace by <i>being assaulted too many times<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/womens-rights-lgbt-rights-racial-justice-criminal-law-reform\/shut-or-get-out-pa-city-punishes\" target=\"_&quot;blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener\">ACLU: <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Last year in Norristown, Pa., Lakisha Briggs\u2019  boyfriend physically assaulted her, and the police arrested him. But in a  cruel turn of events, a police officer then told Ms. Briggs, \u201cYou are  on three strikes. We\u2019re gonna have your landlord evict you.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Yes, that\u2019s right. The police threatened Ms. Briggs with eviction  because she had received their assistance for domestic violence. Under  Norristown\u2019s \u201cdisorderly behavior ordinance,\u201d the city penalizes  landlords and tenants when the police respond to three instances of  \u201cdisorderly behavior\u201d within a four-month period. The ordinance  specifically includes \u201cdomestic disturbances\u201d as disorderly behavior  that triggers enforcement of the law.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Oh, well, that certainly makes sense, doesn\u2019t it? After all, the poor  police officers wouldn\u2019t want to be dragged away from their donuts and  coffee just because some broad got in a fight with her man because he  didn\u2019t load the dishwasher right or something, and then she called the  5-O on him just \u2019cause bitches, man, sometimes they\u2019re like that.  <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">After her first \u201cstrike,\u201d Ms. Briggs was terrified of  calling the police. She did not want to do anything to risk losing her  home. So even when her now ex-boyfriend attacked her with a brick, she  did not call. And later, when he stabbed her in the neck, she was still  too afraid to reach out. But both times, someone else did call the  police. Based on these \u201cstrikes,\u201d the city pressured her landlord to  evict.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously.&nbsp; How about <b>arresting her psycho ex-boyfriend<\/b>?<\/p>\n<p>BTW, if you go the the ACLU link you will find that Norristown is not alone in this.<\/p>\n<p>Any number of municipalities have a policy of punishing the victim, because it is inconvenient.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norristown, PA has a policy of trying to evict victims of domestic violence: Gosh. Norristown, Pennsylvania seems like it must be a real nice place to live what with its strict schoolmarm rule against \u201cdisorderly behavior.\u201d In order to be fair, however, the rule applies not only to those who perpetrate \u201cdisorderly behavior\u201d but also &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1081],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}