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Re "At Home, and Accused of Trespassing" (About New York column, Sept. 28):
Jim Dwyer reports that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg offered a "scoffing dismissal" to the suggestion that innocent people are wrongly charged with trespassing in New York City public housing.
The mayor's deliberate indifference to the realities of life for the 400,000 New Yorkers living in public housing would be scoffable if it weren't so insidious. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, with the Legal Aid Society, filed a federal lawsuit challenging this practice after countless public housing residents and their guests complained about wrongful stops and arrests for trespassing.
One college-educated African-American without a record was arrested after visiting a friend, another for sitting in the stairwell of his own building.
Equally illegal trespass stops and arrests occur regularly in public housing, where the majority of residents are black and Latino. These innocent New Yorkers deserve more than the mayor's derision; they deserve the same respect, safety and protection guaranteed to everyone.
CHRISTINA SWARNS
Director, Criminal Justice Project
NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund
New York, Sept. 28, 2012
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