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...suit, the civil liberties organization charged that Cambridge is enforcing an unconstitutional Massachusetts statute that makes begging illegal, according to Jonathan Shapiro, a staff attorney with the union. The city has moved to dismiss the case, and a Middlesex County court is currently deciding on that motion...
...think that people have a right to ask other people for donations or for charity whether it be for a cause or for their own benefit," said Shapiro. "We are in no way suggesting that they have a right to harass anyone...
...Shapiro said other Boston-area municipalities do not enforce the vagrancy law as strictly as Cambridge does. He criticized the city police for reacting to large numbers of homeless people with force, rather than sensitivity...
...think with problems of homelessness in creasing, there has been an equal and opposite reaction by the police," Shapiro said...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...