Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...park bench or a cardboard box under a highway bridge. And a man's possessions, like his home, are protected by the Constitution from unlawful searches. That was the thrust of a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling last week that ordered a new trial for David Mooney, a homeless man charged with murder because his property -- a duffel bag and a box stashed under a ramp leading onto Interstate 91 in New Haven -- had been searched by police without a warrant. "His duffel bag was luggage," observes criminal-law professor Lloyd Weinreb of Harvard. "If someone were walking down the street...
...separate case involving a similar principle, a federal judge held the city of Miami in contempt of court last week for destroying bedrolls, clothes and medicine belonging to homeless people living under a highway overpass. The city was ordered to pay $2,500 to a homeless shelter...
...history of the beat cop has traveled full circle: once, he was nearly driven to extinction by a series of well-intended but ill-conceived reforms. Until the first decades of this century, police were all-purpose keepers of the peace. They ran lodging houses for the homeless, tracked down offensive smells, rounded up stray animals and kept the streetlamps supplied with oil. They also gained a reputation for taking payoffs and doling out a rough brand of curbside justice...
...analyst John Morton: "Maxwell has made a very risky move." During the strike, which led to truck burnings, beatings and intimidation of news dealers, the unions so effectively discouraged sales of the paper that the Tribune Co. practically gave it away. It let hundreds of hawkers, many of them homeless, buy stacks of 100 copies for $2.50 to peddle at 35 cents each...
...SPEED OF DARKNESS. Playwright Steve Tesich brings together two former Army buddies and trash-haulage partners in this haunting Broadway production, one (Stephen Lang) now scruffy and homeless, the other (Len Cariou) now South Dakota's man of the year. Ironically, the dropout is at peace; the man who suppressed his dark secrets to fit in exists on the knife edge of anger...