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Posted Sat, May 1, 12:40 p.m.
The Burgess proposal was exactly what Kleiman prescribes - pragmatic and targeted at aggressive panhandlers. The same solution has worked well in Tacoma, and most of the social service organizations in Seattle supported it. Of course, once the local handwringing 'progressives', the ACLU and Tim Harris came out against it, ...
MOREPosted Wed, Apr 14, 4:56 p.m.
@debbalee - Linking this piece with the US Census is entirely appropriate, because the US Census was used to identify Japanese who were rounded up in many states. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=confirmed-the-us-census-b
MOREPosted Sat, Mar 13, 9:35 p.m.
The Tacoma law has passed legal scrutiny, as published here two years ago. http://crosscut.com/2007/12/04/law-justice/9598/
MOREPosted Sat, Mar 13, 12:07 p.m.
Crosscut has a short memory. Tacoma passed an identical law in 2007 and it has been effective at removing the worst offenders. Prior to that it was worse than Seattle. Here's the article -> http://crosscut.com/2007/12/04/law-justice/9598/ and the headline -> "It's not clear, but the begging has stopped in the City ...
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