My name is Song Cho, I operate coin laundromats in the city. I started with one, now I have three. We do a good job in providing excellent service, its clean, safe. These undercover cops were operating and coming into my business and then asking customers of our business, and enticing them to buy stolen goods at a very deep discount. One person took the bait and got caught, a second person who was on the outside of the store got caught. Did my employee buy it? No. Did I buy it? No. Did I say, did I put up a sign saying come in and buy stolen goods here? No. What they claimed was that we, as a business, provide space or inducive to providing those kind of illegal activities, because it happened at or near my business, I was the guilty victim. Under the New York City's nuisance law, my innocence was not a defense, I had a decision to make, you know whether to really fight this out in the court or to try to settle this. I felt that there is a very possibility that the end of my business was in jeopardy. Under the settlement, the police could come in at any time to a warrantless search, and I'm forced to operate the surveillance system 24 hours a day and make it available to please for their reviews. That's such an unfair, unfair to me, unfair to the old investment that I made here, unfair to employees that work here and support their family. It's New York City versus you know, a little guy like me.
The craziest part about this is that the police could do this exact same thing to literally any business open to the public. The police came in a fabricated the means to force this takeover themselves.
No business is safe from becoming an unwilling harbor of the police until that nuisance law is off the books.
The government will never be satisfied. They'll keep pushing for more and more power and control. The only thing to stop them is when citizens push back.
"Operate the surveillance system 24hrs a day, and make it available."
That's motive, right there.
The NYPD are some special kind of rat bastards.
So the movies like The Equalizer and so on are completely true in the terms of police taking over businesses and cutting out a profit? (not yet at least)
Can't he create a new business, sell the old one to the new one and then the new one isn't subject to the settlement? Also shouldn't he create the new business in New Jersey where they have business-friendly courts?
this is why i hate when i hear a sheep say but "its the law" there is no such thing as the law, its made for us to get locked up and for them / certain people to escape prosecution when they want, f#@k the law just don't go around stepping on small peoples toes and should be fine, otherwise do your thing and get yours without killing and no one sensible of how the world really works should have any complaints