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Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House
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To: JPR who wrote (9514)11/11/1999 8:24:00 AM
From: JPR  Read Replies (1) of 12475
 
Take me to Harlem or else ---You lose your cab
Hey You Cabby, Yes, I am black: refuse to pick me up--lose your cab.
Undercover cops on the look-out to catch cabbies (Beware South Asian Cabbies) ???in a sting operation
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
nytimes.com
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani announced an undercover sting
operation Wednesday that will take away the cabs of drivers
who refuse to pick up minority passengers. His decision came less than a week after the actor Danny Glover complained that several New York taxi drivers had refused to pick him up because he is black.

The operation, also aimed at cabbies who refuse to take passengers to places they want to go, usually minority neighborhoods, is to begin tomorrow at 7 a.m. with 150 police officers and taxi inspectors.

"We are perfectly entitled to do this," Giuliani said at a news conference. "I know we're going to get the same howls and screams and yells that we got when we did this with drunk drivers." In February, the mayor announced that the police would seize the cars of people arrested on charges of driving while drunk.

Several black officials praised the mayor's decision, including State Senator David A. Paterson, a Harlem resident who has said he has been forced out of cabs more than 100 times because his destination was Harlem. He complimented the mayor's decision Wednesday as "very proactive."
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