Thursday, February 28, 2008

News: Police Safe Homes plan leads to heated debates

Kyle de Beausset and Howard Manly at the Bay State Banner wrote this article about a Feb. 21 meeting on the so-called "Safe Homes" program. Manly moderated the discussion, and one participant was Sarah Wunsch, staff attorney with the ACLU of Massachusetts.

One thing the article talks about is a sense of shame that problems have:

spiraled downward to the point where suspending the U.S. Constitution — specifically the Fourth Amendment, which protects Americans from illegal searches and seizures — seemed like a small price to pay to stop the inner-city bleeding.

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