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Search results for "property line" ...
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The Cash Machine
An investigation reveals that the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office seizes millions every year in small amounts of cash seized from individuals stopped by police— but not necessarily arrested, and often never convicted of a crime. Through the use of "civil asset forfeiture," the Philadelphia D.A. has created a kind of forfeiture assembly line, pursuing cases for small amounts of cash by the thousands via a system which proceeds without regard to guilt or innocence and which places a tremendous burden of proof on the property owner. This investigation is one of the first quantitative looks into a big-city forfeiture operation and includes statistics compiled from reviews of thousands of court records as well as data compiled by hand.
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City Beneath the Radar
During August of 2007 the city of Gainesville attempted to evict the nearly 1,000 members of Tent City, a local homeless encampment, with a 5-1 vote by the City Commission. The evicted failed and public health and safety issues persist.
Tags: property line; public land; tents; shelter; unemployment; city ordinance;
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Cape Utilities
"Property owners in the City of Cape Coral, FL were being asked to pay as much as $40,000 when public utilities (water, sewer, irrigation) lines were installed in front of their homes." The city paid major profits to one contractor, and then overcharged for the utilities and "ignored millions of dollars in savings."
Tags: Utilities; water; sewer; irrigation; utility bills; no-bid contracts
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Despite Rhetoric, Businesses Eye Bottom Line
Education Week's special report on property-tax breaks granted to businesses and the effects on local school districts.
Tags: business; property taxes; schools; school boards; education; property-tax breaks
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An investigation into serious and systemic failures on the nation's commuter rail lines that the rail industry and the Federal Railroad Administration have ignored for 20 years, failures which have led directly to death, injury, and large scale property loss. ABC documented engineers so tired from overnight split shifts that they were falling asleep at the throttle, passenger cars turning into deathtraps from which passengers could not escape because of unmarked emergency exits and hidden emergency door releases that literally required a screwdriver or dime to be opened and used in the event of a crash. (May 22, 1996)
Tags: Ross Page Rummel Rosen Train safety Contest entry 6 pgs. TAPE
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Trouble is the Only Stop on Abandoned Rail Lines
An investigation by the News Tribune finds that abandoned and little-used railroad lines were used by criminals to smuggle drugs and stolen property away from the eyes of the police. The tracks and surrounding rights-of-way, were rarely patrolled by law enforcement. (July 23, 1995)
Tags: Krane Trouble is the only stop on abandoned rail lines Contest entry Police 5 pages