Posted on August 3, 2017 by Erin Durkin in New York Daily News New York Daily News, By Erin Durkin Homeless advocates slammed the NYPD’s sweeps of homeless shelters to nab residents with open arrest warrants. Advocates charge that at least seven times this year, cops have showed up at shelters to make arrests. “It is a waste of time. It is a waste of police activity. It is a waste of taxpayers’ money,” said Griffin Kinard, 31, who said he’s been arrested three times in shelter sweeps for marijuana possession, only to be released shortly thereafter.
