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Archive for November 15th, 2010

crime,economy,politics

Battling blight & vacant properties: Philadelphia's unwelcome real estate legacy

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Hour 1 Philadelphia’s vast tracts of vacant land and abandoned buildings – about 40,000 properties by one count – are costing the city, and taxpayers, a fortune. A new study (pdf) by Econsult and two partners found that the blighted properties were depressing the city’s property values by billions of dollars, while directly costing city [...]

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criminal justice,law enforcement

Philadelphia's Stop and Frisk program

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Earlier this month, The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit on behalf of eight men who they say were subject to illegal searches since the City of Philadelphia implemented its stop and frisk policy.  We’ll talk with Temple Criminal Justice Professor JERRY RATCLIFFE who says the program is working and civil rights [...]

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