Hundreds of thousands of outstanding warrants for minor offences will be abolished in order to help the overloaded judicial system.
Four of the five city courts – Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, announced Wednesday that in the coming weeks they will cancel almost 700 000 of such warrants. We are talking about warrants signed by judges more than 10 years ago for offences such as Cycling on the sidewalk, public drinking, disorderly conduct, etc.
Orders will be canceled for those who did not were arrested and taken to court. However, if the warrant was illegal immigrant, he still could become the basis for his deportation, in other cases the presence of not implemented by law enforcement order may cause failure in the use of state housing or employment.
«Those who have committed minor offences ten years ago or earlier and have not violated the law since that time, today pose no threat to public safety,» said the Prosecutor from the Bronx of Darcel Clark.
The acting attorney Eric Gonzalez noted that most of these old orders were «issued mainly to low-income, blacks and Hispanics, many of whom may not even know that in respect of them got warrants».
