David Poster

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  www.thevillager.com/villager_275/helpusprotect.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/8/2008    Last Visited: 8/8/2008  

  David Poster in his Christopher St. "headquarters" last week, looked over the reams of letters he has written to local politicians over the years, calling for tougher enforcement against prostitution and drug dealing.Although he occasionally gets return phone calls and letters from some of the politicians, they have never adopted any of his recommendations.
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  David Poster, president of the Christopher Street Patrol, a volunteer neighborhood anticrime group, would like to see the city offer more resources to help the troubled youth who gravitate to the Village's nighttime street scene.He is also chairperson of the Greenwich Village Block Associations' task force on prostitution and unruly street behavior.
  
  He praises The Door, a center on Broome St. that helps young adults obtain high school-equivalency diplomas and find jobs and which offers drop-in space for the gay youth who flock to the Village and the Christopher St. Pier at night.
  
  On Friday and Saturday nights, Poster ventures out with one or two other residents and several members of the Guardian Angels.They survey the night scene, helping any person who looks like he or she is in danger, whether it be from harassment or a self-inflicted problem like a drug overdose.Poster tracks the number of people he suspects are committing crimes like prostitution and detains them for a police arrest if he sees them making a deal.
  
  "I think we're the only ones who really know what's going on," Poster said of the action on the streets.
  
  He writes letters to local politicians, informing them of what he sees, what newspapers are reporting on and the relevant statistics he is acquiring from different city agencies.He copies each letter and stores them in his apartment, which he refers to as "the headquarters" for all of his work.
  
  "Believe me, I need another apartment for all of the letters I have," Poster said."I'm making sure that elected officials know about the problems because they are accountable for them.They can never say that they weren't made aware."
  
  A list of recommendations — none of which Poster said has ever been followed by the politicians — is attached to each letter.His G.V.B.A. task force recommends that groups providing outreach in the West Village "distribute behavioral guidelines to their clients."The task force also backs the introduction of legislation "that will meaningfully deter the major prostitution problems."
  
  While local city councilmembers do not have the power to change criminal laws, Poster said that they could submit recommendations to state legislators in Albany, specifically to members who hold power in the State Senate.

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  www.thevillager.com/villager_220/hookers.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/18/2007    Last Visited: 7/21/2007  

  David Poster, president of the Christopher St. Patrol, a neighborhood anticrime watch organization, agreed that a real problem is being pushed south into the residential Village.
  
  "They used to be able to stay up by the closed meatpacking businesses all night," said Poster.
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  Poster agrees there has been a lot of police intervention over the past five years, but says even that attention cannot completely discourage the prostitutes from working the Village.
  
  "There are about 400 arrests a year now, but they don't end up doing any time, so there's no deterrent to stop," Poster said.

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  www.thevillager.com/villager_273/bagelmanbattles.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/24/2008    Last Visited: 7/24/2008  

  David Poster, president of the Christopher Street Patrol, a neighborhood watch group formed in 1999, said that he once detained a prostitute from Queens who had been arrested 69 times, keeping the man from leaving until police came to make the arrest.Poster said he frequently sees 20 to 25 prostitutes per night on Greenwich, Washington and Hudson Sts. between Christopher and Perry Sts., a few more than he saw last year.
  
  "The police make arrests and they keep coming back," Poster said of the prostitutes.He cited recidivism as a serious problem, since current legislation doesn't punish prostitutes enough to keep them from returning to their work.
  
  "They think that because it's the Village they can do whatever they want — and they do," Poster said.
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  Poster, of the neighborhood patrol, disagrees that the Village is a safe place for prostitutes, because, he said, they always face the risk of sexually transmitted diseases like H.I.V./AIDS.He believes that the area's prostitution problem has become so endemic that residents have given up hope and are not even bothering to report it.

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  www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19318607&BRD=2 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/21/2008    Last Visited: 2/25/2008  

  Dave Poster, president of the Christopher Street Patrol, a volunteer anticrime watch working with the Guardian Angels, was skeptical of the latest proposals.
  
  Regarding a 24-hour, drop-in center, Poster said he was concerned it would in fact close at 1 a.m., like the rest of the park, meaning gay youth would flood into the neighborhood after the park curfew, as they do now when they leave Christopher Street.That late-night influx of youth has long been a festering concern among some West Village residents.Poster said he doesn't support allowing food vendors on the Christopher Street Pier at later hours, since that would simply add to the allure of the scene.

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  www.thevillager.com/villager_225/aterrificnightout.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/22/2007    Last Visited: 8/24/2007  

  Above right, Council Speaker Christine Quinn talked with David Poster, head of the volunteer Christopher St. Patrol.

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  Anti-crime Posters - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/22/2005    Last Visited: 12/21/2006  

  Poster are usually considerably larger and they usually have promotional writing around the image where as a print is typically closer in size to the original art work and the only writing would be the artist's signature and perhaps a "title" if the artist has named the painting.
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  Dave Poster, head of the anticrime Christopher St. Patrol since it was founded in 1990, ...

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  Barking Moonbat Early Warning System - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/1/2005    Last Visited: 9/20/2006  

  "The young people . . . are raising holy hell," said David Poster, 68, president of the Christopher Street Patrol, a neighborhood watch group.

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  C.B. 2 challenges pier kids to be on best behavior - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/31/2006    Last Visited: 3/31/2006  

  Speaking at last Thursday's full C.B. 2 meeting, Dave Poster, president of the Christopher St. Patrol, a volunteer anticrime group, said the problem remains the young park users funneling out of the park onto Christopher St., "many yelling and screaming, many with radios blaring.
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  Poster dismissed the joint task force that is to be set up and FIERCE!'s claim that it will self-police.He said the local politicians have been , and will continue to be , hands off.
  
  "I don't think anybody's going to monitor this down here," Poster said.

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  Christopher St. Late Night Flap - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/10/2005    Last Visited: 11/10/2005  

  "This has nothing to do with race or gender," said David Poster, president of the Christopher Street Patrol, at the November 7 meeting."It's about unruly behavior ...

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  Christopher St. anticrime activist is honored by... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/25/2004    Last Visited: 8/25/2004  

  David Poster, left, and Guardian Angels on patrol.
  
  Christopher St. anticrime activist is honored by Community Council
  
  Dave Poster, head of the anticrime Christopher St. Patrol since it was founded in 1990, received a special award on June 30 from the Sixth Police Precinct Community Council "for lifelong involvement in neighborhood activism and dedicated commitment to improving the quality of life the community."Community Board 2, whose district includes Soho and Noho, as well as the Village, also sponsored the award.
  
  Poster, a Village resident since 1978, has taken part in the Guardian Angels' anticrime efforts and headed the Greenwich Village Block Associations' quality-of-life task force.

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