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...most of the city's 1,500 street people squeezed into shelters and missions, while some slept in jail. In New York City, where the temperature dipped to -2 degrees, a record low for the date, 19,269 of the homeless (another record) jammed into city shelters. Mayor Ed Koch followed the precedent set by Mayor Wilson Goode in Philadelphia and ordered that whenever the temperature, including the effect of the wind- chill factor, dropped to 5 degrees, police were to remove homeless from the street and take them to shelters or hospitals--whether they wanted...
...violence had confirmed every suspicion non New Yorkers held about New York as Sin City, the public reaction thoroughly dispelled the accompanying image of New York as Liberal Haven. New York Gov. Mario M. Cyomo and New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch left compelled to warn the citizenry that the state and city administrations by no means condoned taking the law into one's own hands. The citizenry appeared to take exception to this, giving Goetz a warm welcome and offers of financial assistance when he was extradited from New Hampshire, where he had surrendered to police several days...
CALLING WHAT GOETZ did illegal possession of a handgun sends a message exactly counter to Cuomo's and Koch's warnings immediately after the crime. He committed an act that could have led to the death of his aggressors, and was not indicted for it--an action that gives some credence to the charges of public racism levied almost immediately after the shooting...
...Piscataway High, Principal James Koch, proud of the "tight ship" he runs, said that the decision "puts an element of safety and stability back into public schools," without which "no education can take place." At other schools around the country, the judgment brought more applause and, in some states, outright relief. According to Scott Thomson, executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, teachers and administrators, uneasy about their rights of search, "have been looking the other way" when they sensed that something wrong was afoot...
...principals were more concerned with the decision's effect on day-to-day discipline in the schools. A jubilant Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said of the ruling, "It sends a message to students that school buildings are . . . off premises to troublemakers." Concluded Piscataway Principal Koch: "The rights we have had have been clarified and justified...