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...first one, involving the "sweeps," as they're called, is really about values. Taking dead aim at the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against "unreasonable" and warrantless searches, the President, who once taught constitutional law, wants the concept of reasonableness balanced to conform with today's conditions. "There are many rights ((guaranteed by)) our laws . . . but ((victims)) have certain rights that we are letting slip away," says Clinton. "They include the right to go out to the playground and the right to walk to the corner without fear of gunfire, the right to go to school safely...
...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...
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...examine apartments looking for places in need of repair and for "unregistered guests." If "by chance we uncover weapons or drugs," Lane says with a smile, "we complain" to the trailing cops, and arrests are made on the spot. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the CHA for its warrantless searches, but Lane negotiated a consent decree that has allowed his program to proceed unimpeded. The key is resident support, a result of the operation's startling success. Crime has fallen substantially, down about 30% in the 100 buildings swept...
...Kansas City case was one of the more sweeping opinions handed down by the court during a busy week. Three of the other decisions, concerning possession of child pornography, the use of drugs in religious ceremonies, and warrantless arrests, involved the court's evolving body of privacy law. In addition, the high bench issued a major decision on labor relations. The rulings...