Peek a boo lyndhurst nj: Peekaboo Child Development Center – Daycare in Lyndhurst, NJ
Peek-A-Boo Infant and Child Development Center
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Description: Peek-A-Boo Infant and Child Development Center is a Regular Child Care Center in LYNDHURST NJ, with a maximum capacity of 91 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of 0 – 13 years. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
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- License Number:
02PEE0002 - Capacity:
91 - Age Range:
0 – 13 years - Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program:
No - District Office:
New Jersey Dept of Children and Families – Office of Licensing - District Office Phone:
1-877-667-9845 (Note: This is not the facility phone number.)
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-7.5(b)(10) | Administration and control of prescription and non-prescription medicines and health care procedures |
The center shall develop and follow a policy on the administration of medication and health care procedures to children, which shall include the following provisions: the center shall store prescribed epinephrine pens in their original boxes with the child’s name and prescription. A special care plan or other documentation from a health care provider shall accompany the epinephrine pen. If two epinephrine pens are required, both shall be available. Each center under the jurisdiction of N.J.S.A. 18A:40-12.5 shall store back-up epinephrine pens on site consistent with the requirements stated at N.J.S.A. 18A:40-12.5.e(1).
Violation Observed: PROVIDE MEDICATIONS, AS REQUIRED, BY THE CHILD’S SPECIAL NEEDS HEALTH CARE PLAN: BENADRYL FOR 2 NAMED CHILDREN IN ROOM 1 |
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-4.10(b)(1) | Child Abuse Record Information background check procedures |
When the center applies for a new or renewal license or Certificate of Life/Safety Approval, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall submit to the Department the completed CARI consent forms for all staff members who are or will be working at the center on a regularly scheduled basis. Within two weeks after a new staff member begins working at the center, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall submit to the Department a completed CARI consent form for the new staff member.
Violation Observed: MAINTAIN ON FILE CURRENT RENEWAL CARI BACKGROUND CLEARANCES FOR ALL STAFF |
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-4.11(b)(1) | Criminal History Record Information background check procedures |
When the center applies for a new license or Certificate of Life/Safety Approval, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall ensure that each staff member at least 18 years of age who is or will be working at the center on a regularly scheduled basis completes the CHRI fingerprinting process specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-4.11(a). Within two weeks after a new staff member begins working at the center, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall ensure that the new staff member completes the CHRI fingerprinting process specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-4.11(a).
Violation Observed: MAINTAIN ON FILE A CURRENT CHRI BACKGROUND CLEARANCE FOR : 1 NEW STAFF |
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-4. 4(a)(2) | Grouping of children |
For early childhood programs, the following shall apply for infants (under 18 months of age) and toddlers (18 months to 2½ years of age): a group shall consist of four infants or six toddlers to whom a primary caregiver has been assigned.
Violation Observed: MAINTAIN ON FILE, AT THE CENTER, A PRIMARY CAREGIVER LIST IN: ROOM 4 |
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-136 | Health & Fire Safety |
Provide and maintain in good condition handrails on all stairs with 3 or more risers.
Violation Observed: SECURE THE HANDRAIL THAT IS LOOSE ON THE EXTERIOR STAIRCASE, LEADING TO THE OUTDOOR PLAY AREA, FROM THE FIRST FLOOR |
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-7.3(a)(2) | Health and immunization requirements for children |
For early childhood programs, the following shall apply: for each child not enrolled in a public or private school, upon admission, the center shall maintain on file at the center a Universal Child Health Record (Department of Health Form CH-14) or its equivalent, updated annually, along with an immunization record, and a special care plan, if applicable. A 30-day grace period is permitted in N.J.A.C. 8:57-4.5(e)
Violation Observed: MAINTAIN ON FILE CURRENT UNIVERSAL CHILD HEALTH RECORDS FOR ALL ENROLLED CHILDREN |
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-7.6(a)(2) | Injury to a child while in the center’s care |
The center shall take immediate necessary action to protect the child from further harm and shall immediately notify the child’s parent(s) when a child sustains a head or facial injury, including when a child bumps his or her head.
Violation Observed: ENSURE THAT STAFF DOCUMENT THE TIME OF THE PARENTAL NOTIFICATION OF REQUIRED INJURIES ON THE ACCIDENT REPORTS |
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-4.8(a)(11) | Orientation training |
Topics of orientation training shall include recognizing and responding to injuries and emergencies, including the prevention of and response to emergencies due to food-related allergies and other allergic reactions.
Violation Observed: RE-TRAIN ALL STAFF INTHE FOLLOWING CORE AREA: DOCUMENTING PARENTAL NOTIFICATION OF REQUIRED INJURIES; INCLUDING TIME OF PARENTAL NOTIFICATION |
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-5.3(l)(4) | Physical plant requirements for all centers |
Emergency procedure requirements are as follows: the center shall conduct two lockdown drills per year and maintain on file a record of each lockdown drill. The center shall ensure that lockdown drills are conducted during each session provided at the center.
Violation Observed: CONDUCT AND DOCUMENT 2 LOCKDOWN DRILLS A YEAR |
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-5.3(a)(5)(ii) | Physical plant requirements for all centers |
Indoor maintenance and sanitation requirements are as follows: garbage receptacles shall be covered in a secure manner.
Violation Observed: ENSURE THAT THE INDOOR GARBAGE RECEPTACLE IN ROOM 2, USED FOR FOOD DISPOSAL, IS: COVERED |
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-5.3(a)(18) | Physical plant requirements for all centers |
Indoor maintenance and sanitation requirements are as follows: ensure that microwave ovens, toaster ovens, and other portable devices used to heat or prepare food are out of children’s reach, secured on a stable surface, and not in use when children are in the area in order to ensure the safety of children.
Violation Observed: ENSURE THAT THE MICROWAVE, LOCATED ON TOP OF THE REFRIGERATOR IN ROOM 1, IS SECURELY FASTENED |
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-5.3(b)(6) | Physical plant requirements for all centers |
Outdoor maintenance and sanitation requirements are as follows: centers that provide outdoor space shall maintain all fencing in proper condition.
Violation Observed: ENSURE THE CORNER OF THE OUTDOOR PLAY AREA FENCE, THAT IS NEAR THE EXTERIOR STAIRCASE THAT LEADS TO THE FIRST FLOOR, IS SECURELY FASTENED |
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-5.3(a)(2) | Physical plant requirements for all centers |
Indoor maintenance and sanitation requirements are as follows: floors, carpeting, walls, window coverings, ceilings, and other surfaces shall be kept clean and in good repair.
Violation Observed: REPLACE THE MISSING CEILING TILE IN THE CORNER OF ROOM 3 |
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-5.3(a)(16) | Physical plant requirements for all centers |
Indoor maintenance and sanitation requirements are as follows: walls shall be painted or otherwise covered whenever there is evidence of
Violation Observed: REPAIR THE SMALL HOLE IN THE CEILING, IN THE BOILER ROOM, NEAR THE BOILER |
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2021-02-08 | 2021-02-11 | 3A:52-5. 3(a)(17) | Physical plant requirements for all centers |
Indoor maintenance and sanitation requirements are as follows: all televisions and computers shall be secured on a stable surface and shelving shall be secured and not be overloaded.
Violation Observed: SECURE ALL TALL CUBBIES IN ROOM 5 TO A STABLE SURFACE |
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Peekaboo Child Development Center – Lyndhurst, NJ 07071
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Phone: (201) 935-9001
Address: 103 Ridge Rd, Lyndhurst, NJ 07071
Website: http://www.nj.gov/dcf/families/childcare/centers/02PEE0002.shtml
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Hudson Valley: Historic Mansions (Part 1)
Today we begin a series of articles on mansions in the Hudson Valley, which is full of incredible estates and historic buildings. Home to artists, presidents and mobsters, they tell the story of the US and New York, from the early Dutch settlements to the Revolution, the Victorian era and the 20th century.
We have already talked about the Rockefeller family nest – one of the most famous estates in the Hudson River Valley – Kykuit. Below are ten more estates worthy of your attention (and this is only the first part of the material). Scattered throughout the Hudson Valley, these homes will keep you on your toes for a long time – until you’ve explored each of these historic sites for yourself.
Glenview is a Victorian mansion located on the grounds of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers. The house was built between 1876 and 1877 for John Bond Trevor, a New York financier. In the 1920s, the estate and its grounds were sold to the City of Yonkers, which turned it into a park. The Hudson River Museum accepted it in 1948. Today, the mansion has been restored to its turn of the century splendor.
Thomas Sookley, a descendant of the Livingston and Beckman families, commissioned an Italianate style villa designed by architect John Warren Ritch in 1852. The estate was named Wilderstein – “wild man’s stone” – in honor of the Indian petroglyph, which is still located next to the estate. Thirty years later, Sukley’s son transformed the two-story villa into an elaborate Queen Anne-style country house with a dramatic five-story circular tower. The last resident of Wilderstein was Margaret (Daisy) Sookley, cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was Sookley who gave Roosevelt his famous black Scottish terrier, Fala.
The most famous resident of Locust Grove was the inventor of the telegraph, Samuel F. B. Morse. The estate’s name comes from the white locust trees planted by Henry Livingston Jr., the estate’s first resident. Alexander Jackson Davis designed the Italianate-style mansion for Morse in 1851. Unfortunately, from the time Morse lived here, almost nothing has been preserved, although the house has an exhibition dedicated to the inventor and a collection of some of his paintings.
Another masterpiece by architect Alexander Jackson Davis, Lyndhurst was originally built in 1838 for William Palding, Jr. , the former mayor of New York. This house is considered one of the finest Gothic Revival mansions. Its current appearance has been slightly changed from its historical appearance at the request of the last owners of the estate – Jay Gould, a railroad magnate and his daughters. The family later donated the mansion to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is now open to the public. It has also been used as a set for several films such as Winter’s Tale .
Staatsburgh is one of the most impressive mansions in New York. The house was built in the 1890s for Ogden Mills and his wife Ruth Livingston Mills. Built during the year, the house has 65 rooms, 23 fireplaces and 14 bathrooms. The mansion was one of five houses owned by the Mills, mostly the owners lived in Staatsburg in the fall, then they could receive up to eighty guests at a time. In 1938, the estate (the mansion and 192 acres of parkland) was donated to the State of New York.
Montgomery Place was built in 1803 at Annandale-on-Hudson. The house was also designed by Alexander Jackson Davis in the Italianate style for the Livingston family. Chancellor Livington, who led the swearing-in ceremony for George Washington when he swore in to the United States as the first president, had previously lived in an old house that had been destroyed by the British during the Revolutionary War. The house is open to visitors, and you can book a guided tour and walk through the gardens and forest trails, culminating in “fluttering terraces” available to the public free of charge and covering more than 380 acres of land.
Olana is the home of famed Hudson River School artist Frederick Edwin Church, which he designed with the help of Calvert Vaux. The home sits atop a 250-acre estate with stunning views of the Hudson Valley, which the artist painted regularly. Take a guided tour of this 19th century Victorian treasure reminiscent of Mark Twain’s Hartford House. The exhibition at the mansion showcases dozens of paintings by Church and his Hudson River School colleagues. In addition, there are Old School paintings, pre-Columbian artifacts, Persian tiles and peacocks walking in the garden.
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site is located on the Springwood estate, where Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born and died. The homestead, located in Hyde Park, was bought by Franklin’s father James in 1866. In 1915, Franklin D. Roosevelt and his mother Sarah began renovating and expanding the home, creating the imposing Italianate mansion that visitors see today. In 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt donated Springwood to the American people, and after his death, the house was turned over to the National Park Service.
Hyde Park is the estate of the Vanderbilt family, one of the oldest estates in the Hudson Valley. Much of it is open to the public as the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site. The main attraction is a fifty-room mansion designed by McKim, Mead & White. The mansion was built between 1896-1899 and designed in the Beaux Arts style. The house was filled with every modern convenience that only the Vanderbilts could afford at the time, including plumbing, central heating, and electric lighting. Franklin D. Roosevelt convinced Vanderbilt to donate the estate to the National Park Service, allowing visitors to marvel at its grandeur today.
In the 1830s, Washington Irving bought an eighteenth-century house which he converted into a Gothic and Spanish Revival style cottage and named Sunnyside. Inspired by Spanish architecture, Irving even added a tower to the mansion, as he liked such towers very much at the time when he was ambassador to Spain. It was a house that Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. called: “the most famous and expensive of all dwellings in the United States.” After Irving’s death in the same mansion, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. bought it and helped preserve it. Now you can walk along it with a tour.
The next part of the material Hudson Valley: historic mansions – read here.
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Small wormholes in the Big Apple. Looking at the outskirts of a completely safe New York is still not worth it
After the well-known events that took place in the capital Biryulyovo, some experts started talking about the fact that it would be worth creating ethnic districts, their own “Chinatowns” in Moscow. This idea was sharply criticized by Sergei Sobyanin: “Moscow differs from other large metropolitan areas in that the level of security is the same both in the center and on the outskirts of the city. This is generally a unique positive side of Moscow. In the same New York, God forbid you come to some outlying areas. How is security in the Big Apple? And what can we learn from the city of the American dream?
How to survive in Harlem
Indeed, crime in New York City is unevenly distributed. Harlem exists in Manhattan. This is the place of the criminal freemen of African Americans. The area has the highest murder rate, it is 6 times higher than the average for the city.
The history of Haarlem began in the 17th century, when this territory was settled by immigrants from the Netherlands, who named it as a Dutch city – Haarlem. The area gradually turned from an agricultural (until the 19th century), and then a resort town (until the 20th century) into an African-American ghetto.
Beginning in the 1920s, the black population flooded into Harlem, displacing the Germans, Italians and Jews who lived in this territory. Rent, which was lower in Harlem than in the rest of the Big Apple, and in the early twentieth century, tenants denied housing to the black population in other counties of New York, led to the formation of a ghetto. A socially unsettled life led to the flourishing of crime. This area has become infamous throughout the United States. Half of the children in Harlem grew up in single-parent families, which led to an increase in juvenile delinquency. Drug addiction became a huge problem – about 70% of New York’s drug addicts lived in Harlem, which is why white residents of the area hurried to leave it in the 50s, followed by middle-class blacks.
To some extent, the face and reputation of Harlem is changing today. From a haven of outcasts and drug dealers, the area has become a habitat for hip-hopers, actors and soul divas. Harlem is alive with late-night bars and quirky, quirky, eccentric shops.
One of our compatriots, abandoned in Harlem by the will of fate, left curious notes about life in this area.
In particular, she wrote: “The neighbors immediately fell in love with me, it was felt by the warmth of their views. It seems to me that I understand them: a crazy white woman with two boys has settled among them and lives as if nothing had happened. The aborigines loved me as a local landmark, like a white crow flying in from nowhere. Black families never have fewer than three children. I had two. When my pregnancy became obvious to the naked eye, I became completely my own for the locals. Motherhood, children, pregnancy – all this is here, if not sacred, then understandable and familiar.
Well, that’s a plus for Harlem. But here is another observation: “In my walks, I tried to develop such a gait, head position, manner of waving my arms and muttering on the go, which I spied on the locals. For example, an animal-like man is walking towards him, and there is not a soul else on the whole street. He will definitely pass next to me, but do not cross to the other side (it’s like running from a dog). The person holds his hand in his bosom, as if he is about to take out a knife or a pistol from there. If a man’s hands itch, and a fragile intellectual in glasses walks towards him, then skirmishes, most likely, cannot be avoided. But if even the same bespectacled man walks towards an aggressive ambal without looking around, but gesticulating and talking to himself on the go, then the ambal will probably pass by and go looking for another, more suitable victim. Aloud to yourself, you must speak only in English and in no case meet the eyes of the one you fear … “
Yes, Harlem is Harlem after all!
Showdown in the Bronx
In Brooklyn, the Italian gangs set the tone. The Russian Brighton Beach is also located in this area. And this is the patrimony of the Russian mafia. But she does not oppose the Italians. Russians specialize mainly in fraud, and they do it quite successfully.
In Queens, the Hispanics are in charge, and in the Bronx, the Italians hold the palm.
Many people know the film “Showdown in the Bronx” – with the famous Jackie Chan. Indeed, at 19In the 60s-1970s, the South Bronx was one of the most dangerous areas in New York, where even the police were afraid to appear.
The Bronx flourished in the first third of the 20th century. The population of the district grew from 200,000 to 1.3 million people in 30 years, when houses with columns and marble stairs were built along the wide boulevards. The Great Depression of the 1930s and 1940s slowed down the growth of the city, and from the 1950s its real decline began, which continued until the mid-1980s. Houses with marble stairs blazed in flames.
During a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx in 1977, an ABC television camera showed the world the flames of the South Bronx around the stadium on live television, and sportscaster Howard Cosell said the now famous phrase, “The Bronx is on fire. ”
Everyone who had the opportunity fled the Bronx, leaving the once chic area to be torn to pieces by bandits. And homeowners, realizing that their property was no longer worth anything, set fire to their own property to collect insurance payments.
The influx of homeless people, drug addicts, the mentally ill, or simply armed thugs began from the south of the Bronx, separated by the Harlem Strait from Manhattan, and spread further north, capturing about half of the area.
The Bronx, one of the five districts of New York and the only one located not on an island, but on the main part of the North American continent, has a really bad reputation even today. Of the 515 murders committed in New York in 2011, 148 took place in the Bronx. With a population of 1.4 million, that’s almost 11 homicides for every 100,000. In Manhattan, with a population of over 1.6 million, there were 71 homicides that same year, or 4.4 homicides for every 100,000 people.
In pure arithmetic terms, the odds of being killed in the Bronx are 2. 5 times higher than in Manhattan.
More than half of the Bronx’s population is Hispanic, a third is African American, less than 11% is white, and 3% is Asian. About a third live below the poverty line, twice the national average.
At the same time, things have changed in the Bronx lately. Parks began to be set up in the area, and new houses were erected on the site of the ghetto. And in May of this year, it became known that the Bronx Tours company, which conducted bus tours of the most dangerous areas of the Bronx, went bankrupt … due to a drop in the crime rate in the area. The company’s services were used by tourists from Australia and Europe, who, as it turned out, were not interested in the prosperous Bronx.
Under the slogan “zero tolerance”
Generally speaking, New York today is considered a fairly safe city. Experts attribute the “great criminal evolution” to the determined policies of former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who ruled the metropolis from 1994 to 2001. Under him, the police changed the strategy of combating criminality, introducing a number of innovations that can be safely qualified as know-how.
The first innovation is the CompStat statistical system. The introduction of this universal computer database made it possible to react instantly to the changing operational environment. The electronic system made it possible to track crimes on a special map and register any disturbing trends. Once a week, representatives of the leadership of the city police visited the police stations of all eight patrol areas of New York (in police slang – “boro”) and held meetings at these maps.
Huge maps flashing with multi-colored lights can be seen in Hollywood police action films: the points where the crime was committed flash and enlarge, and the route of the pursuit of intruders is marked with a flickering dotted line.
Today, CompStat cards have been adopted by almost all major US metropolitan areas.
The second know-how is the so-called broken windows theory, which began to guide the mayor and his team. The theory is very simple and may even seem naive to some. It establishes a logical connection between the devastation and littering of the environment, on the one hand, and the level of antisocial behavior, on the other. In other words, if a teenager is surrounded by abandoned houses with walls painted with graffiti and broken windows, and mountains of garbage are piled up on the streets, then willy-nilly, his hand reaches for the “jamb”, a knife and a gun. At 19In 1982, this simple idea was dressed in strict academic garb by the sociopsychologists James Wilson and George Kelling. They published their findings in The Atlantic Monthly. Soon Kelling was hired as a consultant by the New York City Transportation Authority. For six years, it was possible to clear the city subway, including the runs between stations, from the “creativity” of graffiti artists, monstrous in scope and taste.
Largely influenced by the ideas of Kelling and Wilson, the city fathers proclaimed “zero tolerance” for even the smallest offenses, in particular, riding the subway with a hare and drinking alcohol in public places. The turnstiles in the New York subway are quite low, and some people jump over them like a goat. Caught hares are beaten with a dollar – a fine of 100 bucks.
As for alcohol, in New York you can’t drink anything stronger than mineral water on the street, even if you put a bottle of beer in an opaque paper bag. Although in most cities in America it is allowed to use in public places in this way. But if caught in New York, the fine is $25. And a tipsy brawler, if he suddenly starts to swing rights, will be immediately arrested for antisocial behavior, and the court can sentence him to community service or even to prison.
There is also a very simple explanation of the decriminalization of New York, reminiscent of the old Jewish joke: “Do you want to drink good tea? Do not spare tea leaves! In this case, the quantitative increase in the number of law enforcement officers serves as tea leaves. First of all, cops patrolling the streets – privates of law enforcement. During the 1990s, the police force in the metropolis grew by 35%. Today, about 35,000 cops are on duty in the city, including 22,000 patrol officers.
Characteristically, in addition to the 35,000th cohort of the “best” (NY Finest – this is the motto of the New York Police Department), hundreds of representatives of other law enforcement agencies are on guard duty. So, many ministries have their own police. There are a dozen agencies that have the right to monitor and detain suspects. And it is more difficult for crime to slip through such a fine sieve. True, this practice often creates conflict situations when some policemen step on the heels of others.
Sometimes a city police investigator arrives on the scene and finds FBI guys or DEA guys running the place. This storyline is Hollywood’s favorite. The competition is caused by the fact that each cricket has its own pole in the form of a departmental code. For ordinary police, for example, the main “prayer book” is the Administrative Code of New York. And in it, the police are instructed to monitor compliance with the laws of the state of New York.
And what about, you ask, central, federal laws? They are also written to the policemen of the metropolis, but rather ornately. American law is precedent, and therefore one of the cases 19’99, reviewed by a federal appeals court. Its decision states that “local law enforcement officers have the right to arrest for violation of federal law, if it is not contrary to state law.” Note that local law takes precedence!
If there is a federal law, but there is no similar state law, as, for example, in immigration cases, then a New York police officer can arrest an illegal immigrant in order to immediately transfer him to federal jurisdiction.
The policy of zero tolerance for both serious crimes and petty offenses was continued by the current mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg. He is known as a zealous opponent of the free sale of weapons. Under his pressure, in 2006 the municipality approved a new set of rules requiring the mandatory registration of citizens who violated the law on the possession and possession of firearms. In addition, gun sellers must send detailed reports to the authorities twice a year on buyers and the number of barrels sold.
Gun owners, on the other hand, are not allowed to buy new guns more than once every three months.
Bloomberg has embarked on a massive nationwide campaign to legally, administratively and commercially shackle arms dealers in other states, from where they illegally flow to New York. If Bloomberg succeeds in blocking or at least narrowing these channels, then there will be even fewer murders in the city.
In addition, the mayor has put into practice the total prevention of street crime, legislatively approving the principle of “stop and search” (stop and frisk). Cops patrolling the streets have long been allowed to stop and search suspicious individuals on the street, but for good reason. The new regulation significantly expanded the wording “good reasons”. The streamlined formula gave the police almost unlimited possibilities, including stopping and turning out the pockets of the main risk group – immigrants from Latin America.