""If I could have held it, I would have held it. But obviously I couldn't hold it," Singleton said. "I wasn't going to piss my pants.""
""When you see the utter failure of summonses to change behavior over decades, it's time to rethink what you're doing," she said."
A man in East Harlem was ticketed for public urination after seeking a restroom while leaving a funeral because a nearby restaurant's bathroom was out of order. An officer followed him across the street and issued a summons. Under Mayor Eric Adams, the NYPD has sharply increased enforcement of low-level offenses, with public urination summonses rising from 746 in fiscal 2020–21 to 10,003 in the most recent fiscal year. The Mayor's Management Report notes the totals include both civil and criminal summonses. A former city criminal justice official called summonses ineffective at changing behavior. The mayor's office did not immediately comment.
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