PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Diane Rose, Member of the Public, on Aging, Public Safety, and Housing
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8 min
Diane Rose provided testimony on the intersection of aging, public safety, and housing in New York City. She emphasized the importance of creating a "smart city" that enhances safety for older residents and discussed the concept of "non feasense" in relation to housing-related scams targeting seniors.
- Highlighted the need for a proactive approach to public safety in the context of an aging population
- Addressed housing-related scams that exploit vulnerable older adults, potentially leading to various forms of abuse
- Suggested recommendations including reframing public safety beyond law enforcement, educating professionals about vulnerabilities, and using media for public awareness
Diane Rose
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First is good to see you again, Councilwoman Hudson, and welcome, Council Men Salon.
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I'd like to address the issue of aging public safety in the context of housing.
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And I'd like to define 1st public safety from a proactive versus reactive perspective One thing we know according to the research is that a smart city is also a safe city, a city that trust forgive me.
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A city that enhances the safety therein in its entirety.
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I'm sorry.
Crystal Hudson
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That's what
Diane Rose
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start again.
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First of all, I'm an older person, so forgive me.
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
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It's all
Diane Rose
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good.
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Okay.
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A city that must enhance the city's performance in its entirety on safety and security for aging gracefully older persons.
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A smart safe city is a prerequisite to to create a robust economic and social environment in order that we as older persons age gracefully.
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And to attract investment over the long term.
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The growth of the growth of a smart city and the longevity of its inhabitants relies on the investments that enable the quality of life for all who live there.
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With rapid urbanization and the increase in the population due to migrants to the city.
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Public safety and aging gracefully has become a key socioeconomic challenge.
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Which needs immediate and urgent attention as a key pillar for the life in the city.
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What we have instead What we have instead, as I've observed, are contributions to what I define as a death cycle that though it may decrease the population size.
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It does so unnecessarily and is a cruel way to think about how anyone wants to age.
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If I may use my biblical canons as a minister of the cloth, the bible promises long life and health to our bones.
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For the last 5 years, I've come before as some of you are aware, a number of bodies from city hall to public, private, and nonprofit environments and have not with 90% achieve the goals for which I laid out from the beginning.
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Today, I'd like to share what I've defined as non feasense and how it affects the safety, the public safety and health concerns that has resulted.
Crystal Hudson
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If you're able for if
Diane Rose
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you're able to beat it up.
Crystal Hudson
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Just in the next minute or so.
Diane Rose
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That is the lack of public safety That is unenforceable by the absence of legal policy and procedures working through the bodies that are set up to address it.
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Especially in the context of housing.
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Non thesis is defined as I'll skip that part because I probably have a book here and might be able to present the rest in writing.
Crystal Hudson
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Yes.
Diane Rose
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But I would like to address scams related to a housing context.
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In a city where affordability is greatly challenged.
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People are using the opportunity to offer people places to live without legal redress to do so.
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In that context, this person is forced to engage in a relationship that involves an ongoing one with the what I define as con artists.
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In these cons, a person is subjected to further vulnerability to abuse.
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That abuse may be emotional, psychological, and can even rise to the levels of physical violence.
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To subject further subject this person to the insecurity of their home, which they perceived from the beginning was a legal relationship is to increase the already rising numbers of those vulnerable in a housing context, such as the 250% that is growing in the area of homelessness.
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So what I have are quite a few recommendations.
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Being mindful of time, But the first one is to take public safety into the context for which it was created as opposed to a law enforcement context, which it currently exists.
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Unfortunately, in this context, when one reaches out to a local precinct to include the crime prevention unit, there's not a crime that occurs that the police can act upon.
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And so in that context, there needs to be laws that protects one from a crying that would exist if it were on the books to do so.
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Does that make sense?
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And so with that
Crystal Hudson
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Apologies.
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But if I can just ask you to to wrap it up, we just have
Diane Rose
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to Okay.
Crystal Hudson
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Be equitable with that
Diane Rose
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with that.
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So crime prevention and battling crime to ensure public health by educating all professionals to the vulnerabilities in this context.
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Education through media.
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We heard a lot about pamphlets and giveaways, etcetera, going to a senior center, going to a precinct.
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Most people are not doing that.
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And so, yet, people may sit in front of their TVs, public announcements, media, etcetera.
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And integrating into policy legislative laws that will address the realm of established laws that are already on the books, but how it relates to this unique characteristic.
Crystal Hudson
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Thank you.
Diane Rose
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So I have a lot more.
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I'll submit the rest of them written.
Crystal Hudson
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I was just gonna say you could submit it in writing over the next 72 hours.
