Call 911, Police Can Have You Evicted

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Hey, don't bother the police!  Don't you realize the police can't be bothered with serving the public- well, unless they're serving citations.  Isn't it about time we quit the shit?  Enough no-knock raids, enough shooting the family pets.  End the terrorism and get back to the job of serving the public.  I'm a landlord, I'll let you know if my tenants are a nuisance.

www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/17/police-tell-victims-call-911-and-youll-get-evicted-under-nuisance-laws/

In Pennsylvania and other states, police can force landlords to evict tenants who officers consider to be a nuisance. According to the New York Times, under so-called “nuisance property” laws, individuals like domestic violence victim Lakisha Briggs of Norristown, PA can be told by police that if they call 911 one more time, they’ll be forced out of their homes.

The nuisance ordinances are intended to protect residential neighborhoods from rowdy, disruptive households, but in cases like Briggs’, they can leave victims of violence in an impossible situation, needing to call for help, but knowing it could cost them their home. Under the laws, officials can bring pressure to bear on landlords to evict a tenant if they’ve been called to a rental property more than three times in a four month period.

Briggs, 34, said that her violent, volatile ex-boyfriend showed up at her house at the beginning of summer 2012, fresh out of jail from their last fight, demanding to move in.

“If I called the police to get him out of my house, I’d get evicted,” she told the Times. “If I physically tried to remove him, somebody would call 911 and I’d be evicted.”

The nuisance laws are growing in popularity around the country. They are ostensibly enacted to enable landlords to weed out drug dealers and other disruptive tenants from rental properties and create “crime-free neighborhoods.” Unfortunately, they often end up placing victims of domestic violence and other crimes at the mercy of their abusers.

[Tennesseer]

Fear not.  Those terrible ACLU folks have taken up Lakisha Briggs' case.

ACLU

[EVT1]

As Carlin said- 3 strikes- works for baseball so why not the law....

So since the legal system cannot deal with an asshole we evict the victim- brilliant!

Thanks evil ACLU.

[EVT1]

Second that on no-knock raids.  That should be a very rare and well regulated occurrence- and no mistakes- sorry cops- you raid the wrong house YOU are the criminals- if you get shot by a homeowner I have no sympathy.

[zibazinski]

You don't have to evict. I simply chose not to renew a lease to a tenant who thought she could bring inappropriate behavior to a family neighborhood. Eviction takes too long. I warned her and she thought I was kidding. She can take her ghetto behavior back to the ghetto. I'm sorry if you make a bad choice to get involved with crazy but you don't have the right to bring it to there.

[swamp]

Aug 18, 2013 20:20:25 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

You don't have to evict. I simply chose not to renew a lease to a tenant who thought she could bring inappropriate behavior to a family neighborhood. Eviction takes too long. I warned her and she thought I was kidding. She can take her ghetto behavior back to the ghetto. I'm sorry if you make a bad choice to get involved with crazy but you don't have the right to bring it to there.

What if she didn't leave?  You'd still have to evict. 

[bean29]

I am a landlord. While I have sympathy for the abused woman, my rental does not pull the orofit it should. If I don't collect rent the payment for the rental comes from my owm living expenses. If. The gov't want's to ensure non-eviction - they need to pay the rent on behalf of my tenant

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[Virgil Showlion]

How many times does an individual have to call 911 before they're considered a "nuisance"?

Are we talking about domestic disputes once every week? Once a month? A lifetime maximum?

I don't like the idea of cutting people off from emergency services, but if they're phoning in an average of more than one emergency call every 2-3 weeks it's an abuse of the emergency line, a waste of police manpower, and the authorities have to draw the line somewhere.

ETA: I notice in the OP they give three times in four months as a baseline. Hence once every five weeks.

I dunno. Borderline.