Who says Democratic states can’t govern?

New Yorkers are being advised by the local news to put up “No Trespassing” signs to stop squatters from stealing their homes. pic.twitter.com/V1Mwswlp3l

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) March 27, 2024

Related: New York: Woman Arrested for Trying to Kick Out Squatters from House She Owns

This is a brilliant idea.

The question in my mind is: why did no one think of this earlier? We all could have saved ourselves a lot of trouble with this one weird trick.

New York Post:

New Yorkers’ best defense against squatters? A flimsy plastic sign that costs a few bucks.

Local news reporters encouraged homeowners to get themselves a “No Trespassing” sign to thwart potential squatters from moving in uninvited and taking control of their houses.

“This was $3.47 at Home Depot. It is a ‘No Trespassing’ sign,” ABC 7 Eyewitness News’ Nina Pineda said during a Thursday broadcast. “You can put this up on your front door, on your property line, somewhere you can see it from the street.

“But this is the catch — take a time-stamped picture of the sign … because what you want to prove to police is that the sign was up before the squatters moved in,” Pineda said, adding that home security cameras are another key tool to fight home invaders.

In New York City, people can claim “squatter’s rights” — the legal right to inhabit a home — after living there for just 30 days, even without proof of the owner’s permission.

The law — which was initially meant to protect long-term tenants from eviction — requires the property owner to take up the matter in the often backlogged housing court, rendering cops powerless in the interim.

The homeowner is legally barred from changing the locks, turning off utility services or removing the freeloaders’ belongings.

The headline might be slightly deceptive, in that these people are claiming that there is some kind of legal basis for this – that if you have record that you put up the sign, the police will remove the squatters.

However, that is not true. The cops don’t care about your sign. They will not evict anyone without a court order at this point.

Cops probably don’t agree with the policy, personally, but if there’s one thing we know about the cops, it’s that they do whatever they’re told, no matter how egregious, and absolutely refuse to take any type of principled stand on anything.

The cops did the covid hoax against you. They went around punching people in the face for not wearing a cuck muzzle. Cops are a threat to the public order. They are armed thugs and there is no line they will not cross in support of serving their paymasters.

If you own property in a place with squatter’s rights, the best thing you can do is sell it and by property somewhere else.

Of course, nowhere in America has property rights, because we live under a gay and retarded version of communism.

But yeah, the sign won’t work. It will actually probably make the situation worse, as it marks the house as being unoccupied.

You can’t just kick people out of your house.

It’s against the law.

The Post Millennial:

A 47-year-old New York City woman was recently arrested for unlawful eviction after trying to prevent squatters from re-entering the $1 million property bequeathed to her by her family.

Adele Andaloro changed the locks on the Flushing, Queens home, which according to NYC law is not allowed if “tenants” have inhabited a building for more than 30 days, which in this case, some had.

According to ABC7, a number of people began occupying the home on February 6 and refused to leave. When a crew went out to interview Andaloro, one of the squatters arrived at the property and unlocked the door. After being confronted, however, she fled.

With the door wide open, Andaloro and the crew entered. In addition to her furniture, she discovered two men sleeping in a room at the back of the house, one of whom had only been “renting” for two days. A number of 911 calls were placed, and when police showed up, they took the men away.

Andaloro explained that police told her they could arrest her if the locksmith she had called earlier that day went ahead and changed the locks. Nonetheless, she told him to do it.

A short time later, the two men who had been apprehended returned to the property and confronted her, calling 911.

“Why is it that I have to leave and he doesn’t have to leave?” Andaloro asked officers when they showed up, to which one replied, “Technically he can’t be kicked out. You have to go to [housing] court.”

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In the end, Andaloro was arrested and the men were allowed to remain in the home, pending further legal action.

This is perhaps peak “anarcho-tyranny.”

You have the government literally enforcing lawlessness.

Just be grateful you don’t live in Atlanta