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Newsgroups: alt.privacy,alt.society.civil-liberty,talk.politics.drugs
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From: whughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (William W. Hughes)
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Subject: BIG BROTHER is watching you in Texas!
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From the Sunday, 10 October 1993 edition of the San Antonio Express-News,
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page 8B. Reprinted without permission. All typos are mine.
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LETTERS TO TARGET DRIVERS IN ALLEGED DRUG ZONES
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Associated Press
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GRAND PRAIRIE - Police say they plan to wite letters to businesses and
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individuals whose vehicles are spotted in an allegedly drug-infested
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neighborhood in the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie.
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"Basically, what we'll do is send a friendly letter," said Joe Babina,
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a police storefront officer in the neighborhood of Dalworth. "We're not
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going to allege anything."
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The letters will inform people that police saw their vehicles on a
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particular date in a pearticular time in a known drug area.
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"The majority of people who come through Dalworth, they come in here
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to buy drugs," Babina said. "Why would you come down here if you don't live
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here?"
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Babina said more than half of the people arrested in Dalworth for drug
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offesnses are not from the town. Over the past six weeks, police have made
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17 drug arrests in the 2-square-mile neighborhood.
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The letter-writing operation, praised by city leaders, has drawn fire
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from the American Civil Liberties Union. The civil-rights group says
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notifying companies that their vehicles drove through known drug areas
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may put employees under undue suspicion.
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Police say they will send the letters to owners of vehicles that they think
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have no legitimate reasons for driving through the neighborhood.
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