Take the homeless, for example, the saddest symbols of the once and future
Apple. Under Giuliani, cops were bullied into taking them to overnight
shelters, from which he also weeded out the $2 hookers, crackheads and
fugitives from justice, who were carted off to jail. The ministers who had
allowed the rootless legions to camp on their church steps branded the
policy inhumane. Previous mayors would have backed off, but Giuliani loved
a fight and came at them head on. If the reverends were so concerned, he
asked, why didn't they open their church doors and let the unfortunates
camp out on the pews? The silence from the pulpits was deafening. FROM...
http://new.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/30/1038386354815.html
NEW YORK
Suspended for no arrest
A New York City policeman has been suspended for a month without pay for
refusing to arrest a homeless man living in an underground Manhattan car
park. Full report
Smiert Spionem
http://new.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/30/1038386354806.html
In the 1960s, the NYPD's bureau of strategic services, the successor to the
Red Squad, engaged in numerous "black bag jobs" - illegal operations - to
keep tabs on radicals at Columbia University and in the civil rights
movement...
SMIERT SPIONEM!
