{"id":423,"date":"2005-06-28T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2005\/06\/28\/law-of-vagrancy-2005-2\/"},"modified":"2005-06-28T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T13:27:00","slug":"law-of-vagrancy-2005-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2005\/06\/28\/law-of-vagrancy-2005-2\/","title":{"rendered":"law of vagrancy 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/pd.startribune.com\/sp?eId=14&amp;ecId=3465298&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.startribune.com%2Fstories%2F462%2F5529779.html\">Minneapolis Star-Tribune<\/a>:<\/em> Police Chief Bill McManus backed off on a plan to require panhandlers to register annually with the city and display a photo ID while they beg. Begging without a license could have resulted in arrest and misdemeanor charges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It certainly would be beneficial for downtown businesses and for people who are made to feel uncomfortable by panhandlers,&#8221; McManus said (in a quote that seems lifted verbatim from Chambliss&#8217; crit-classic &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sasw.chass.ncsu.edu\/s&amp;a\/faculty\/mccall\/articles\/sept%2027\/law%20of%20vagrancy.pdf\">Sociological Analysis of the Law of Vagrancy<\/a>&#8220;). Chief McManus spearheaded a similar effort in Dayton, OH but neither the Minneapolis city council nor the mayor wanted to carry the flag on this one. As one might imagine, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acluohio.org\/inthenews\/index.php?s=panhandling\">ACLU<\/a> points to constitutional problems with criminalizing begging. Restricting physically aggressive<em> <\/em>panhandling or limiting its time and place are probably constitutionally permissable, but the first amendment likely provides <em>some<\/em> protection of one&#8217;s right to ask people for money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6608\/1089\/1600\/neck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"128\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6608\/1089\/200\/neck.jpg\" width=\"118\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>My concern was more personal. As state support shrinks, the Minnversity is searching for new revenue streams. I&#8217;m glad I won&#8217;t have to wear a laminated panhandling license around my neck at my next lunch with potential donors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Police Chief Bill McManus backed off on a plan to require panhandlers to register annually with the city and display a photo ID while they beg. Begging without a license could have resulted in arrest and misdemeanor charges. &#8220;It certainly would be beneficial for downtown businesses and for people who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}