Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students in California? Or the Kenyan woman who was robbed by Americans posing as taxi drivers in New York? Or the American who rode a train and then opened automatic fire on Long Island, New York? or the shocking revelations of the dirty cops of New York amid drugs, gang nuisance, murders and various forms of social strife? I think Mr. Gell would use his position more productively to save Americans from themselves... and also do some travelling to become more enlightened...
...claims to be representing: the tenants of public-housing projects. In the Robert Taylor Homes just south of Stateway Gardens, Ray Goodwin, 9, describes how one of his friends was gunned down on the monkey bars in a neighborhood playground "because he didn't want to be in a gang." Says Goodwin: "I want the sweeps. There be too many guns in our buildings." Around Easter they went off at an especially horrifying rate: after a truce between the Black Disciples and Gangster Disciples gangs apparently broke down, police recorded more than 300 shooting incidents in the Robert Taylor Homes...
...houses will be around awhile, and so will the controversy. Lane began the weapon sweeps in 1988, restricted them a year later to cases involving "immediate threat" after negotiating a court-ordered consent decree with the ACLU, then resumed them after armed gang members chased away repair crews dispatched by the housing authority from a project last August. That led to the restraining order that Judge Andersen has turned into an injunction. Lane says he will respect that ruling -- for now. But "if the circumstances that existed two weeks ago, when we heard 300 shots, exist again, I will search...
Barlett and Steele, who are not ideologues of any discernible persuasion, leave the distinct impression that government has begun to function like a gang. According to political science, "the state" is supposed to be a neutral place where various interest groups -- like, say, the rich and the unrich -- meet to work things out, far from the noisy marketplace. Instead, government seems to have become a place where legislators meet lobbyists, to the happy advantage of each. As for being above the marketplace -- even laws are for sale here. When the rich have exhausted all the other evasive tactics, they...
Facing a tough decision pitting personal security against constitutional rights, a federal judge came down on the side of rights, ruling that police must have warrants before searching for guns in Chicago's public-housing developments, which have become gang- and drug-war zones. President Clinton immediately ordered the Justice and Housing departments to develop a constitutionally permissible search policy to capture the guns and help protect residents...