Attention Anchorage Assembly and Mayor their is a municipal ordinance called 24.80.15
which prohibit unlawful solicitation on a public street in Anchorage,
Alaska. Please also enforce this on the panhandler who is soliciting
the donor parking as well. We can establish a consequences for this
action
First offense a warning then a ride to Beans Cafe or Anchorage Rescue
Mission if they refuse automatic one day at Community Service Lockup.
Second offense $500 fine for solicitor plus ride to Beans Cafe or
Anchorage Rescue Mission if they refuse then either three days at
Community Service Lockup or a week at Cook Inlet Pretrial charged as a
misdemeanor.
Third Offense $1000 fine for the solicitor. Now depending on
background and personal choice either can spend six months at Cook
Inlet Pretrial charged as a misdemeanor. If they are not from Anchorage
they have the option one time of having the taxpayers purchase them a
one way ticket where they came from and unless it is an in state
medical emergency they are officially kicked out of the Municipality of
Anchorage if they show up again must provide positive identification
then they will spend an automatic six month at Cook Inlet Pretrial for
trespassing unless a medical emergency.
Now all these offense can be reduced in an exchange for alcohol and
drug related treatment of offender and 500 hours of supervised
community service each offense. Judges and defendants have this option
during sentencing.
After the second offense notice the Municipal Health Department to send
a notice to the State of Alaska Department of Health and Social
Services and the Social Security Administration since most panhandlers
are recipients of the fraud program called Social Supplementary Income
which needs to be eliminated completely. Since federal law prohibits
anyone having benefits that involves a criminal record since 1997 the
last real Federal Welfare Reform Act which I had a hand in helping five
states pass and support of last real GOP congress and President Bill
Clinton signed it into law.
Please tell mayor Dan Sullivan, Anchorage Police chief Mark Mew and
your assembly you want fairness in panhandling enforcement which means
punish the panhandler and the donor.
Mayor Dan Sullivan ultimately vetoed it and it stood in October 2012.
Here is a picture I took with my cell phone of the 12th and Muldoon Intersection the panhandler is the small dude on east side of the intersection holding a sign. August 27, 2012 a cab driver called that a three car accident was
caused by a panhandler at the corner of C St and Benson Blvd near
Popeye's Fried Chicken. Anchorage Police Department refused to give the
panhandler the citation even though he caused the accident. We have a program in Anchorage called Change for the Better that is you give money to a Social Service agency not the panhandler do this period. Recently as of September 30, 2013 Anchorage police Mark Mew after numerous testimony from the author of this blog Mark Kim Marion and Tom McGrath they are now using the Community Service patrols to now offer these panhandlers a free ride to a homeless shelter. If they refuse then they call the Anchorage Police Department they are cited with a citation. Finally this blog is being listened too. We did it.
Alaska bail out amounts should be above 100,000 for severe crimes even on the first offense. If you make penalty for the crime severe enough. You prevent people from committing the crime. You also should require at least 90 percent of the bail money before release instead of just 10 percent. This will also deter crime. By making the bail amount high you actually keep the prisoners in jail instead having to search for them later. Having the bail amount so low it does an injustice to the victims of the crime.
Who says the Governor's Mansion needs to be in Juneau. Save some money sell it. Governor's House should be where the Governor is currently living. Sarah Palin only lived in the mansion during session then stayed in her house in Wasilla rest of the time. Governor Parnell residence is in Sand Lake which is where the governor should be living when legislature is not in session. Now days in the computer age you would have legislatures virtually could meet and stay in their districts. This would allow the legislatures to be closer to their districts. They only need to meet once a year like at the Den'ina Center in Anchorage once a year when the Governor addresses the legislature. You would eliminate the per diem problem because all the legislatures would be in their district. They could vote electronically on the issues.
Last month in August, 2012 we had a 16 year old girl named Viviana Gaspar Guerro from Mason County near Olympia who did not like the punishment her parents gave her. She decided to run away triggering an Amber Alert. She left her house making it look like a kidnapping. Teenagers like her should be required to spend time in jail and pay fines for using first responder resources when a kidnapping never happened. They waist the resources of first responders looking for someone who was never lost. These juveniles who choose to do this should have to pay the complete cost of the operation and spend time in jail. The juveniles parents will need to pay this penalty. You should consider this like a false 911 call.
I want to apologize for not writing this blog sooner. Mayor Dan Sullivan put this out in a Facebook message on June 28th. Anchorage Police is looking for an idiot who decided to light a match at the New Sagaya Market at 9th Ave and I St in the SE Corner around 9pm, June 1st. The idiot was wearing a dark jacket with reflective stripe across the shoulders and a dark ball cap. If anyone was around that area near New Saguya Market around 9th Ave and I St on June 1st, 2012 around 9pm. Please call Anchorage Police Department dispatch at (907) 786-8900 or Anchorage Crime Stoppers at (907) 561-STOP (7867) or The Arson Hot line at (907) 267-5060. Let's catch this moron before he strikes again.
