Cities have even passed 36 new laws to ban panhandling since 2006, despite courts repeatedly declaring panhandling constitutionally protected speech.
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And "aggressive" panhandling, which is broadly defined to include everything from begging while "recklessly touching the solicited person" to "panhandling on any day after sunset" is illegal everywhere in Mobile.
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They were known for panhandling beside Interstate 26, he said.
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The panhandling is not limited to New York City, however.
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To eat, he "flies," which is his term for panhandling.
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Aaron's landlord evicted him for smoking, bothering neighbors and panhandling.
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Bossier City in Louisiana has imposed stricter laws on panhandling.
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Darin Barton was panhandling near the scene when the crash happened.
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For example, Mobile went viral for its anti-panhandling enforcement in December.
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Parker had been panhandling outside the arena when the bomb was detonated.
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"It has taken on this air of panhandling to me," said Wenerd.
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In 20153, New York City enacted its own ban on aggressive panhandling.
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He is still homeless and was panhandling until he checked into rehab.
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"We rotate panhandling outside the co-working space," Ms. Pappalardo said, joking.
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You develop "tactics" for gaining enough money for food, including panhandling and prostitution.
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He told the Inquirer that he's once again homeless, using drugs, and panhandling.
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There have been laws outlawing panhandling and authorizing the removal of tent camps.
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Student Opinion How often do you see someone panhandling, or begging for money?
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However, some things — such as smoking, watching porn, and panhandling — are still banned.
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Panhandling remains illegal in the city's subways and buses and at Transit Authority stations.
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He had the money to pay for some of his meals, perhaps from panhandling.
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Mr. Parker, 33, was panhandling when the bomb exploded, according to local news reports.
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By June, McClure had sold the trailer for $10,000, and Bobbitt was back to panhandling.
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Both victims had a history of panhandling on local roads to make money, Bobo said.
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"That's a true hero," he said of the man, who had been panhandling in the area.
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There was also negative publicity around the group's panhandling tactics in airports and other public settings.
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Some business owners have also reportedly accused migrants of stealing or panhandling, leading to additional tensions.
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O's got a few bucks stashed away, so no reason for her to be panhandling online.
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The two, who authorities said were known for panhandling beside Interstate 26, were reported missing in December.
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California officials say Harvill depended on panhandling to support her family, who moved from motel to motel.
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A 2015 Supreme Court ruling found that any efforts to curb panhandling based on speech were unconstitutional.
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Someone shot this video of Snow White getting busted for aggressive panhandling Thursday afternoon on Hollywood Blvd.
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Before he formed his business, he spent time homeless in Las Vegas, Nevada, panhandling on the Strip.
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He also said he had gone back to drugs and panhandling and was once again without a home.
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Within a few months of Bratton assuming office, arrests for panhandling in the subway were up 271 percent.
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Panhandling was a business, and children were recruited specifically to appeal to unknowing, well-meaning suckers like me.
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Panhandling was made illegal in an area of downtown Mobile referred to as the "Visitors Domain" in 2010.
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"Although we do not condone panhandling and must enforce the city ordinances that limit panhandling, it is never out intent or desire as a police department to make light of those who find themselves in a homeless state," Mobile Police Chief Lawrence Battiste said in a statement posted to Facebook Monday.
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As Shih notes, even the homeless in China use WeChat-supported QR codes to accept mobile payments when panhandling.
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The money race began, and I attended political action committee fund-raisers, which are like panhandling with hors d'oeuvres.
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Those who have monitored the panhandling said it appeared the men were colluding as part of some larger network.
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"At lunchtime, the line was out the door," an older woman who was panhandling outside the restaurant told me.
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But instead of panhandling for cash to score drugs, he went to a methadone clinic, determined to stay clean.
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When society fails them, people of the 21st century now turn to our era's version of panhandling, the crowdfunding campaign.
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Kevin Smith told the Sun he wants to create a law in his wife's name banning panhandling in the city.
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I've always been a shy person so panhandling was like the worst thing in the world for me to do.
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I was smoking 20 80-mg oxys a day, I was doing tons of cocaine, I was panhandling for drugs.
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But they found a record that a 7-Eleven clerk called authorities at 7:54 pm complaining that Anderson was panhandling.
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The two other plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Ricky Vickery and Micki Holmes, similarly allege that panhandling is necessary to their survival.
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New Yorkers, who do not have to walk far to see someone sleeping rough or panhandling, are not happy about this.
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He is chronically homeless and has become an expert in surviving on the street, subsisting for years by panhandling and theft.
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It was the first time a federal court found that panhandling was a free-speech right protected by the First Amendment.
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And candidates are forced — unless they're Steyer or Bloomberg — to devote ludicrous and possibly corrupting sums of time to political panhandling.
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Moments after Sofia Andrade won Saturday night, she was at a stop sign and saw Glenn Williams panhandling in the freezing cold.
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He continued performing into his 90s and, as the Times reported in 2011, spent years panhandling on the streets of New York.
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"I've been told that the average homeless person in New York makes between 20 and 80 cents a day panhandling," he says.
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"We just gotta do something about the panhandling on the corner because if it's getting to this point, it's dangerous," Stokes said.
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While begging and donations are a tradition in Buddhism, aggressive panhandling and abusive behavior are not acceptable to most practitioners, experts agreed.
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For the better part of a decade, I spent my time in and out of homelessness, panhandling and scamming meals at shelters.
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" Another, by a former county executive who was convicted for misconduct in office, called panhandling "a public safety hazard at all times.
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Montgomery, another Alabama city, recently repealed its own anti-panhandling law after pressure from advocates who charged the statute essentially criminalized poverty.
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Another man, 33-year-old Chris Parker, had been panhandling in the area near the concert venue when the bomb went off.
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Afterward, judges began blocking enforcement of panhandling laws in cities including Hot Springs, Arkansas, Slidell, Louisiana, and Albuquerque — all on First Amendment grounds.
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Almost every day for the past six years, students at the University of Texas at Austin would see David Carter panhandling near campus.
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We started panhandling, and when we'd be done, we'd link up in a spot, and usually someone else would be waiting there too.
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Instead of taking action to alleviate poverty, cities like Utrecht in the Netherlands have taken overly simplistic measures, like implementing bans on panhandling.
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In the 1970s, however, the Bowery was still home to a host of men wandering the bars, drinking on the streets and panhandling.
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Montgomery passed its own panhandling ban in July, for example, but repealed it by December after protests and continued pressure from civil rights attorneys.
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In 2017, when Teresa Danks, an Oklahoma teacher made headlines after panhandling for school supplies, a GoFundMe page was set up in her honor.
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Other widely noted decisions by Judge Sand included a 1990 ruling that overturned a ban on panhandling in the New York City subway system.
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A recent study by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty found cities have passed at least 36 laws to ban panhandling since 2006.
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The report recommends that the new M.T.A. officers enforce rules about not sleeping or panhandling on the subway and help with outreach to access shelters.
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For example, before last year, the only convictions Maryland residents could expunge were those for nine misdemeanors related to homelessness, such as panhandling and public urination.
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In recent years, city lawmakers have considered adopting ordinances that would essentially prohibit panhandling and further regulate groups that feed the homeless, but both measures failed.
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In New York, you are constantly confronted with staggeringly stark divides: homeless men panhandling for money around $10 million homes; luxury sports cars parked outside dilapidated warehouses.
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Pushing into a subway car without letting others off again topped the list of grievances, but panhandling ranked second (which was not listed in the London study).
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The class action settlement, which merged several ongoing lawsuits against the city, was supposed to bring an end to these types of arrests for loitering and panhandling.
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My apartment and her panhandling beat were near the Mission Police Station, and once I offered to go in and ask the cops for a shelter list.
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But neither one of them have medical facilities for housing people who are chronically mentally ill and often arrested for crimes as simple as panhandling or trespassing.
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According to CTV News, Dane Rusk was driving back from a mall in Regina when he saw an older man panhandling on the corner with a sign.
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Several were filmed attending Omar's School for Beggars, founded during the recession of the 1970s to teach the art of creative panhandling with good clothes and nice manners.
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Today, Chinese citizens are accustomed to using mobile payments platforms such as WeChat Pay or Alipay for everything from buying groceries to settling personal debts — even for panhandling.
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Jacquelyn Smith, 54, was in the passenger seat of a car on Saturday when she spotted a young woman panhandling, the Baltimore Police Department said in a statement.
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Cities like Worcester, Massachusetts are fighting to keep the panhandling laws on the books, while others, like Denver, have changed their laws to conform to the first amendment.
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Along with these visible signs of homelessness come complaints about aggressive panhandling, public urination and disorderly conduct, as well as a rise in drug dealing and petty crimes.
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In 240, a story about a homeless man panhandling 21 BTC ($2000 in May 240—now over $21,2000 as of writing) made the rounds in the Bitcoin community.
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Mr. O'Connell's guide to the territory is a fresh-faced 20-year-old college dropout from Arizona, Today Malone, who survives by panhandling and selling The Berkeley Barb.
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He spent time panhandling on the Las Vegas Strip and learning about the sneaker-resale world by watching more experienced resellers line up for new releases in malls.
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Fare-beating seems rampant, despite the "crackdown" your editorial mentions; panhandling is incessant; and reports of riders being slapped, pushed and groped seem to be on the rise.
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Of the 187 cities surveyed annually by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, 83% still have at least one law restricting panhandling, according to its latest tally.
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Often, litigators have to strike down law after law that ban panhandling and loitering, which means it sometimes takes decades to force police departments to comply with the constitution.
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And as you can see, Screens left DealBook in the dust, and unfortunately Andrew Ross Sorkin is panhandling now with Flavor Flav … I hope he can turn it around.
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"They consider this panhandling, but this is just people getting home," Chaazaq Washington, 20, said this month after his court appearance for a February arrest for soliciting a swipe.
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Pete Hart, who hawked The Big Issue, a magazine meant to give homeless people a way to make money without panhandling, was a fixture in front of the shop.
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Political correctness aside, the best way America can help Africa is by letting Africa help itself, and by making sure the culture of panhandling on the continent is permanently ended.
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William Burke's fractured, meandering monologue, which he also directed, is a sometimes fascinating, more often confusingly indulgent trip inside the troubled mind of a panhandling Elmo (Modesto Jimenez, a.k.a. Flako).
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The police in DeKalb County, Ga., have reopened an investigation after a video surfaced online showing an officer repeatedly striking a homeless woman with his baton during a panhandling arrest.
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"I want people to feel empathy for the addict panhandling at the grocery store and for the addict passed out on the sidewalk with track marks on his arms," she said.
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Then there was Omar's School for Beggars, a New York City institution founded amid the recession of the 1970s, which claimed to teach the nouveau poor the gentle art of panhandling.
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The work was a response to a law passed in 2212 that prohibited panhandling within 2570 feet of an A.T.M. Instead of merely standing around in his absurd costume, however, Pope.
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In " The Pope on Panhandling: Give Without Worry," The New York Times Editorial Board writes: New Yorkers, if not city dwellers everywhere, might acknowledge a debt to Pope Francis this week.
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Judith Arnell told FOX12 at the time the decision to close her business, Judith Arnell Jewelers, came from a mix of panhandling and concerns over the safety of her employees and clients.
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We see our first glimpse of Justin in episode 3, wearing a tattered sweater, living out of his sky blue Liberty High School gym bag, panhandling on the streets of Oakland, California.
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In 1984, Mr. Innis ardently supported Bernard H. Goetz, the white gunman who shot four black youths in a subway confrontation that he called an attempted mugging and that they called panhandling.
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"I decided to stand on the side of the road with a sign -- much like panhandling -- and just rely on the generosity of my community to help this family out," she said.
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He bought heroin for the first time at age 15 with the money he and Christopher got panhandling in New York's Grand Central Station, according to David's obituary published by PEOPLE in 1984.
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But as of last week, she can add panhandling to the list—and since then, she has raised more than $25,000 to help keep teachers from paying out of pocket for classroom needs.
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When the unhoused are arrested for panhandling, sleeping in public, or any other violation of the city's "quality of life" ordinances, they are taken to Gateway's next-door neighbor, the Atlanta Detention Center.
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Church leaders would coerce victims to stay and continue panhandling by telling them their children would be taken away if they left, or their families and loved ones would reject them, prosecutors said.
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Alex Tresniowski and Laura Schrof's story began by a chance encounter in the 1980s when Schrof, a business executive, passed by a then 11-year-old Tresniowski panhandling for money on the subway.
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The drug use, the panhandling, the unruly dogs and the crusties&apos general presence on street corners and in front of stores have all become too much for some cities, triggering local government crackdowns.
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Employees of the Administration for Children's Services questioned the couple in November because of a report that Ms. Ambrose had been panhandling with the two girls at Grand Central Terminal, a police official said.
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But his remarks reflected a new effort by the Department of Homeless Services to better understand who is panhandling, why they are begging and how the city can help them get off the streets.
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Some cities have also voluntarily repealed, or at least revised, their panhandling law to ensure they're less about content and more about a specific type of conduct — like slowing traffic at a particularly busy intersection.
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He uses his improv skills to help them write better panhandling signs, all the while worrying about how he used to be one of them and if he's giving back enough now that he's not.
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Panhandling is illegal in the Netherlands (as well as many other countries and states around the world), and the homeless have been pushed out of the streets to create an illusion of financial well-being.
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Outside the exit, a good bet is the 7-Eleven on Drumm Street, where a half hour's panhandling money can buy you hot taquitos ($1.49 each or three for $3) or a hot dog ($1.99).
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During a two-year stint in the same job under Mayor Rudy Giuliani beginning in 290, he emphasized "broken windows" policing that went hard after so-called quality-of-life offenses like panhandling and turnstile jumping.
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Police officers, as a result, have become the first responders to nearly all of society's ailments — including family and mental health crises, conflicts in schools, and "quality of life" offenses such as public intoxication and panhandling.
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She moves into the violation column of her screaming panel a homeless veteran panhandling—which the woman knows he is because his sign says " HOMELESS VETERAN, PLEASE HELP "—as he's crushed by a speeding drunk driver.
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Catching fare-beaters was a cornerstone in that policing strategy, started under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, along with vanquishing public urination, panhandling, street prostitution and so-called "squeegee people" who wiped car windshields with dirty rags.
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In the days following the attack, Parker gave interviews to the press saying that he had been panhandling outside the arena when the bomb was detonated and that his gut instinct was to run back and help.
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The following year, the City of Hudson agreed to pay $37,500 to settle a lawsuit filed by the A.C.L.U. for Mr. Pendleton that said the police issued him a summons for panhandling, which they said was illegal.
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The best way Trump can help Africa is by ending the insidious culture of competitive panhandling on the continent and ensuring that American national security and tax dollars are not entangled with the toils of African dictatorships.
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Police officers deal frequently with behaviors that, while suspicious, are not criminal — or at least not criminal in any meaningful way: panhandling, loitering, mentally ill people endangering themselves walking in traffic, people carrying televisions down the street.
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Toward the end of my active addiction last winter, when I was myself homeless and panhandling in the East Village, Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center, at 25 Allen Street, saved me from having to share syringes.
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Twelve leaders of a California-based church were arrested Tuesday on charges that they forced dozens of mostly homeless people into panhandling and handing over their welfare benefits under the guise of "restoring" them from drug addiction.
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In another series of experiments, men had more luck getting a woman's phone number if they had a dog with them, and both men and women had more luck panhandling when they had a dog with them.
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Public housing authorities and private landlords refuse to rent to them, labeling them public safety risks, sending them to the streets, to homelessness — and often back to prison, for offenses like sleeping in public spaces and panhandling.
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A police chief in Mobile, Alabama is offering his "sincerest apology" after two of his officers mocked local homeless people over the holidays with a quilt they had fashioned out of panhandling signs seized across the city.
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The 2012 settlement came after more than 30 years of legal battles; until that decision, New York City government and its police department refused to listen to federal judges who declared its ban on panhandling and loitering unconstitutional.
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Michigan, a state roiled by the opioid epidemic and home to one of the nation's most controversial anti-panhandling laws, has seen 555 cases and 20 deaths of its own this year, overwhelmingly affecting its own homeless population.
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In some instances, the indictment said, victims were coerced to remain and continue panhandling for the financial benefit of church leaders with threats that their children would be taken from them or that loved ones would reject them.
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The leaders, including the former pastor of Imperial Valley Ministries, allegedly coerced homeless people into surrendering welfare benefits and panhandling for up to nine hours a day, six days a week, according to the Southern District of California.
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Employees of the Administration for Children's Services questioned the couple last month because of a report that Ms. Ambrose had been seen playing a guitar and panhandling with the two girls at Grand Central Terminal, the police official said.
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However, when pressed to locate the exact administrative code or law that is not subject to the 2012 settlement, the NYPD produced transit rules that ban the same type of panhandling or loitering that was struck down by the settlement.
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There are often random riff-raff travelers panhandling outside, food preparation by white rastafarians, and strange surcharges if you aren't a member, but you can't be a member if you don't live in that state, according to co-op by laws.
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The nearby Bedford-Atlantic Armory Men's Shelter, the largest shelter for single men in the city, with capacity for 350 residents, has been notorious for crime, loitering and panhandling, a reputation exacerbated by its ominous appearance inside a turreted castle.
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Local and state law enforcement continue to arrest labor trafficking victims who are forced to commit crimes such as transporting drugs and panhandling, as well as sex workers on 'prostitution' grounds, including minors who are eligible for victim services under federal law.
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Panhandling has been banned in many Australian states, U.S. cities and Norway; anti-homeless spikes have been erected in cities like London; and the poor have been pushed out of their communities across the globe for the sake of commerce and tourism.
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Several courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which struck down Portland's law against begging on median strips in 2015, have increasingly taken an unfavorable view of panhandling ordinances, saying they infringe on people's First Amendment rights.
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Now, as a writer who often returns to Cleveland for periods of time, I see how economic boom and gentrification is creating a city that relies more heavily on police—with cops cracking down on things like homelessness by criminalizing panhandling with city ordinances.
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In Atlanta, Kwanza Hall, a City Council member, introduced legislation this year that would decriminalize a series of low-level crimes — including spitting, panhandling, moving household goods at night and loitering around railroad tracks — that he said had been used to target African-Americans.
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Giuliani even touted it as one of his central achievements in his farewell address: "The broken windows theory replaced the idea that we were too busy to pay attention to street-level prostitution, too busy to pay attention to panhandling, too busy to pay attention to graffiti," Giuliani said.
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The Chamber of Commerce and the tourist board are calling for harsher measures to improve what is euphemistically called the "condition of the streets," a term that encompasses the intractable homeless problem, public intravenous drug use, the large population of mentally ill people on the streets and aggressive panhandling.
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Some of these pieces are comically subversive: In 21960, after New York outlawed aggressive panhandling near A.T.M.s, the artist used an eight-foot-long chain of Italian sausages to tie himself to a Chase A.T.M. in midtown Manhattan, wearing a skirt of $21961 bills to cover his lower half.
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We keep focusing on the economic challenges and the lack of housing, but clearly the biggest element is that in our city, we have the same drug ecosystem: users and suppliers nearby, and the means, through panhandling and unrelenting petty theft, to acquire small amounts of money to feed the cycle.
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Officials are not discussing a motive for the killing but say evidence suggests the purported panhandling woman holding what appeared to be a baby, wielding a sign that read "Help me feed my baby," was allegedly invented by the father and daughter, as was the man they claimed stabbed Smith to death.
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