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    "title": "Police State: Virtual House Arrest Ordered for Minors in East St. Louis",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "title": "Police State",
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    "created": "2012-09-28 18:58:25 UTC",
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        "2012-09-28 18:58:25 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Angered by\u00c2\u00a0the recent murders of four young people,\u00c2\u00a0 the mayor announced today that police are going to impose drastic new measurers to keep teens off the streets.</p>\n<p>\u00e2\u0080\u009cThere is something going on in the community at this point that we\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve got to safeguard them and keep them off the streets,\u00e2\u0080\u009d Mayor Alvin Parks said. \u00e2\u0080\u009cThere are people shooting at each other for no reason whatsoever.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>Among the new rules:</p>\n<p>**Minors are to be off the streets at ten o\u00e2\u0080\u0099clock on both weeknights and weekend nights.</p>\n<p>**Minors on the street during school hours will be arrested on sight.</p>\n<p>**Police will also perform I.D. checks on street corners and conduct gun searches, and Parks says he won\u00e2\u0080\u0099t hesitate to call in the National Guard if the spike in violence continues.</p>\n<p>East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks announcing crackdown on youth violence</p>\n<p>\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe loiterers will be arrested, not warned, but arrested. Those who are hanging out at 11th and Bond, 15th and Lynch, 38th and Waverly, wherever you happen to be, if you are loitering, you will be arrested.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\"Articulable suspicion\" is now \"walking around after 10pm\" and gets you searched on a whim. Papers, please! Via <em><a href=\"http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2012/09/26/controversial-new-measures-planned-to-curb-violence-in-east-st-louis/\">Virtual House Arrest Ordered for Minors in East St. Louis \u00c2\u00ab CBS St. Louis</a></em>.</p>\n"
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