can be set up
# to pass court review and work effectively.
#
# The risk of selective enforcement is high, and it's not hard to
predict
# which neighborhoods will be the focus of police attention, and which
# will be ignored.
Get a load of this:
* "Police Applaud Ruling to Allow Restrictions on Gang Suspects"
* By Tim Golden, The New York Times, February 1, 1997
*
* Law enforcement officials in California today praised a State Supreme
* Court decision that allows cities to prohibit SUSPECTED gang members
* from standing together on street corners, climbing trees, wearing
beepers
* and doing any number of other things that are legal for ordinary
citizens.
*
* The ruling was in a case for the city of San Jose to prevent 38
Hispanic
* men and women suspected of member****p in a street gang from
frequenting
* a four-block neighborhood that the police said the gang had
terrorized.
*
* "We're thrilled," said Los Angelos County Attorney Gil Garcetti.
*
* State and local law enforcement officials predicted that the court
ruling
* would prompt a wave of similar legislation across California.
*
* Because the San Jose Ci
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