Word: stateways
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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...forbade the police to conduct sweeps of public-housing projects during which they searched apartments without obtaining warrants. The judge in March modified the order to allow cops to ransack without warning a building's "common areas" (lobbies, hallways, stairwells), and it was such a "vertical patrol" of the Stateway Gardens complex that Ghost joined. But Judge Andersen agreed with an American Civil Liberties Union complaint that warrantless searches of individual apartments violated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids "unreasonable searches and seizures...
Those who disagree include no small number of the people the ACLU 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...
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