Death by drunken driver Bowery page 19 The NY Post

I don't attend community board 3 meetings anymore.  I would go and I talked about too many dorms and too many bars and when I did speak up which is on the record, no one stopped and said for the record it should be noted the community board chair owns many bars here in the East Village.

Page 19 "Measly 2 years for fatal DWI" does not state where Tenzing Bhutia drank so much beer his blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit but he did strike down and kill a beautiful young woman, Julia Thomson,  21 years old, a finance student here in the Bowery.  Her father said from his home in Scotland he blames the US justice system.  I would add the city because not enough is done to curtail out of control drinking.

I had even asked that a sign go up next to the one warning pregnant women not to drink, to not combine prescribed drugs with alcohol because I believe many people that party here are mixing it up by choice or worse having creeps drop sufi's in their drinks.  

I even suggested safety guidelines like the kind the NYPD handed out after the Imette St. Guillen be printed out on each receipt when people buy a drink or even booze at local deli's.  It should be noted in my opinion the NYPD deserves the highest praise for circulating those guide lines.  There were well written and I was pleased to see them handed out and piles of them for people to take in places with drinking establishments.  They may have saved lives and we will never know.  Well done.

I even tried calling Christine Quinn's office downtown before I went to the 9th Precinct meeting where I stated no woman should die the way Imette St. Guillen died and  another young woman did under age, a horrific violent death and associated with alcohol abuse/drinking in Chelsea.  I was really upset and one think I learned is don't bother reaching out to Christine Quinn's office at least the one downtown.  I got zero help and zero interest from them.  

People ask me if I want to run for political office or have suggested I do so but I am a passionate artist, a creative soul and I do not want to be a politician.  I do have creative ideas and I have passion and I do want the city to be a safer more effectively run city which gets even harder with population increases and budget cuts.

What are the statistics of death, violence, crime and injuries related to alcohol here in NYC?  

I can't express the upset and the belief that as a society can do more to protect people even if they don't have the initiative or know how.   One dynamic group that has begun to make a difference www.rightrides.org