Gangs Research: Anti-Loitering Laws Can Reduce Gang Violence | Opposing Viewpoints Research Topic. Gangs summary with 139 pages of encyclopedia entries, research information, and more. ... On June 10, 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the law was unconstitutional. ... Anti-Loitering Laws Are Ineffective and Biased...
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The grass-roots Common Sense Coalition and a majority of Madison City Council members want to reinstate the city's controversial anti-loitering law to help stop a surge in serious crime.
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Chicago’s Anti-Loitering Law ... The Supreme Court struck down a Chicago anti-loitering law Thursday that authorized the police to sweep the streets of those who look to be gang members.
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Just about every major city has an anti-loitering law. If you're a law abiding citizen, you have nothing to worry about. This is to target drug dealer and people loitering outside of small businesses and other people's houses.
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NEWARK -- Newark's anti-loitering law is no longer welcome to hang around on the city's books. ... Transit police officers used the city's anti-loitering law to get him to leave, said George and Lydia Cotz, a Mahwah husband-and-wife law firm representing Kreimer in U.S. District Court in Newark. The case is before Judge...
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The court, after hearing arguments today, will decide whether Chicago's crime-fighting effort is as unlawful as the once-common,more general anti-loitering laws the court banned 26 years ago. More conservative than it once was, ... Next message: Tom Boland: "US Supreme Court: Justices knock Chicago anti-loitering law"
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The Public Defender's office and the ACLU fought hard to prove that the city's anti-gang loitering law gave the police powers to arbitrarily select people for arrest and punishment, arguing that such laws are likely to be enforced in a discriminatory manner and tend to trap people engaged in wholly innocent conduct.
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The Supreme Court appeared troubled today by the amount of discretion a Chicago anti-loitering ordinance gives to police to arrest people who have committed no crime. ... Chicago lawyer Lawrence Rosenthal, who defended the ordinance, insisted it was not vague. Loitering alone would not violate the law, he said,
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BRISTOL, R.I. — A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down Chicago's anti-loitering law shows that a similar ordinance in Bristol is also unconstitutional, argues the Rhode Island branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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