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lindrios OP t1_iz9zlln wrote

Reply to comment by Loosh_03062 in Human Rights Violations supported by the Vermont Agency of Human Services by lindrios

Some useful information here concerning excessive police calls at these properties. It's a two part equation.

  1. there are drug/violence situations that require law enforcement, this will happen anywhere

  2. the property owners of the shitty hotels/motels regularly call the police on tenants as a form of intimidation. They also routinely call police to perform "evictions" on tenants that make them unhappy or file complaints about their treatment. This happened so frequently at the Econo Lodge in Saint Albans that the SAPD will no longer show up for these "evictions" as they are now aware the tenants have Occupancy Agreements and can't be ripped out of their housing because a hotel owner is having a bad day. IE if a tenant calls a property owner an unsavory name, the owner will call the PD because they are butthurt.

  3. with property owners basically abusing the PD functions and using them as "intimidation" by calling them multiple times a day it's stretched the already small PDs to their limits.

  4. Cortina Inn was one of the places that was calling PD whenever the owner was having a bad day. We will call these "Petty Calls". This led to the PD being misused as "security" for the property and eventually they got fed up with the drain of their resources and personal and demanded compensation for calling them so frequently.

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