Paul Feiner has decided with his warped progressive vision that the Town should look the other way when it comes to illegal aliens. So, for all of you in neighborhoods with multiple families living in single family homes, should you simply shrug your shoulders and say, "Oh well, it's what The Paul wants," and ignore it? Not at all! There are numerous avenues and tell-tale signs that can be utilized to ferret them out and have the Town stop this. What The Paul chooses to ignore is really a very dangerous safety issue.
The easiest way to find this illegal activity is to ask any person in their neighborhood to point out where it is happening. They all know. Another way is to look for some tell-tale signs: no screen door (we don't know why), cable TV splitters on the outside of the house, multiple antennas and/or satellite dishes, the ever popular overcrowding of cars on the property, changing vehicles at that property, out of state license plates, above normal amounts of garbage during each garbage/recycle/trash pick-up days, increased utilities usage (specifically water). Finally, you can simply sit there and watch how many people enter and leave at any given time.
By the way, the Town of Greenburgh employees have been ordered not to report any of these violations. This is remarkable. They are on the front lines so to speak and can offer a wealth of daily information without any real effort. ABG spoke with several police officers, unofficially polling them to see what consistency, if any, there might be toward their reporting any kind of violation they may encounter during the response to a call. We specifically asked if they were called to a house for a domestic issue, and during the course of that call saw any of the following: illegal aliens, illegal apartments, subdivided rooms, multiple rooms with more than two mattresses in a room, mail to different last names at the same address, numerous cars with out of state plates; what would they do? They all said there is nothing they can do. They all said their orders were to not report anything else they saw and to only address the issue they were called there for.
One officer recounted a domestic disturbance call between a homeowner and one of his tenants. This was the second time this officer had been there for the same players and the same reason. He chased the perpetrator into the basement apartment and momentarily got disoriented. He commented to me that a) it was an illegal apartment and b) what if there was smoke and fire fighters went in there - they could die. It's okay though because The Paul condones it. It has to stop!
Government's most basic role is to protect it's people. Everything after that is subject to interpretation. Protecting your responders safety is vital. Keeping our residents safe is paramount. When you have overcrowded homes and there's an emergency, police and firefighters respond, arrive and do a “size-up” before they enter. If a single family home has an illegal amount of people and in particular, rooms they don't anticipate, it could prove deadly.
What can we do? We can go after these people by enforcing safety with fire codes, building codes and various regulations the Town Boards has enacted over the years. We can talk about it or we can do something. It long past time to do something. Contact the building department and let them know what you know. The Paul isn’t concerned with the first responders or even our residents safety, only the violators. He isn't concerned with the safety of Greenburgh. This is unacceptable. It time for The Paul to go!
One officer recounted a domestic disturbance call between a homeowner and one of his tenants. This was the second time this officer had been there for the same players and the same reason. He chased the perpetrator into the basement apartment and momentarily got disoriented. He commented to me that a) it was an illegal apartment and b) what if there was smoke and fire fighters went in there - they could die. It's okay though because The Paul condones it. It has to stop!
Government's most basic role is to protect it's people. Everything after that is subject to interpretation. Protecting your responders safety is vital. Keeping our residents safe is paramount. When you have overcrowded homes and there's an emergency, police and firefighters respond, arrive and do a “size-up” before they enter. If a single family home has an illegal amount of people and in particular, rooms they don't anticipate, it could prove deadly.
What can we do? We can go after these people by enforcing safety with fire codes, building codes and various regulations the Town Boards has enacted over the years. We can talk about it or we can do something. It long past time to do something. Contact the building department and let them know what you know. The Paul isn’t concerned with the first responders or even our residents safety, only the violators. He isn't concerned with the safety of Greenburgh. This is unacceptable. It time for The Paul to go!
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