In 1993 the Police Department began an unprecedented attack on quality-of-life offenses.

I'm amazed at the indignation on the part of the people arrested for quality-of-life offenses.

This moving violation is not a quality-of-life offense, but one that endangers life itself.

But the city has no administrative courts to handle the quality-of-life offenses.

You never know these days if a festive gesture will become a quality-of-life offense.

No less than 95 percent of those ticketed for quality-of-life offenses are black and Latino men.

But even worse, residents say, is the growing number of quality-of-life offenses, like homelessness and drunkenness.

In previous years, a focus on such quality-of-life offenses has been credited for the record declines in crime during the Giuliani administration.

Many officers say they were forced to pursue quality-of-life offenses with such vigor that it made their efforts seem petty or discriminatory.

The effort, which would include arresting some traffic offenders, is part of the Mayor's attack on so-called quality-of-life offenses.