Civil Rights
Nov. 15, 2007
Skid Row Crackdown Creates 'Debtor's Prison,' Lawsuit Says
LOS ANGELES - Civil rights attorneys have launched a broad legal attack on the city's Skid Row crackdown, saying that tactics for policing the area's poor and homeless amount to discrimination on the basis of race and disability and create a modern-day debtor's prison.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Civil rights attorneys have launched a broad legal attack on the city's Skid Row crackdown, saying that tactics for policing the area's poor and homeless amount to discrimination on the basis of race and disability and create a modern-day debtor's prison.
"The city has systematically conducted a program of removing the homeless...
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