Category: Security

Searching for sanctuary: Part 2, Public interest

5 March, 2013 (09:30) | Apartments, civil liberties, common areas, Fourth Amendment, Landlords, Law, New York City, Rental, Security |

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   By:David A. Smith   Yesterday’s post on Judge Shira Scheindlin’s decision, reported in the New York Post (January 8, 2013) and New York Times (January 8, 2013) (blue font), brought us to the unexpected boundary issue, that Operation Clean Halls inside apartment buildings is perfectly appropriate, whereas the judge [...]

Searching for sanctuary: Part 1, Private property?

4 March, 2013 (12:38) | Apartments, civil liberties, common areas, Fourth Amendment, Landlords, Law, New York City, Rental, Security |

By:David A. Smith   In the relations between landlords and residents, security and privacy conflict, and when to that mix is added the third participant, that of law enforcement, the mutuality of boundaries becomes very complicated indeed, as demonstrated by the legal disputes surrounding New York City’s apartment patrol program, known by its proponents as [...]

Freedom from security: Part 2, the legal jousting

14 December, 2012 (09:00) | Affordable Housing, High-rise, Innovations, New York City, occupancy, Regulation, Security |

By:David A. Smith   [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   Yesterday’s post used a New York Post (October 19, 2012) story and many other sources to explore New York City’s Operation Clean Halls program, under which rental landlords give permission for NYPD officers to conduct floor-to-roof patrols through their properties, and to challenge anyone who [...]

Freedom from security: Part 1, the landlords’ and tenants’ perspective

13 December, 2012 (09:30) | Affordable Housing, High-rise, Innovations, New York City, occupancy, Regulation, Security |

By:David A. Smith   F x S = k: The product of Freedom and Security is a constant. Larry Niven, Niven’s Laws   Whose stoop, whose lobby, whose right to stop?  Janeia Sandiford outside her building   Would you rather be free or be safe?  That question lies at the policy heart, if not the [...]

Nobody’s on the fence: Part 3, future

27 September, 2012 (09:50) | Communities, fences, Housing, Local issues, Neighborhood, New Haven, Politics, Public housing, Security |

[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.]   By:David A. Smith   In the two posts preceding this one, we’ve dealt with New Haven, Connecticut’s desire, called to my attention by dedicated reader Matthew Healy using a New Haven Register (September 6) story, about a fence that kept the residents of a [...]