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  • Cops offer to search children's bedrooms (Parents' OK needed under new TPD anti-gang effort)

    11/04/2007 7:09:01 AM PST · by SandRat · 36 replies · 150+ views
    Arizona Daily Star ^ | Dale Quinn and Josh Brodesky
    The long arm of the law knows no limits — especially when it comes to searching through the belongings of Tucson's troubled youths. With the consent of parents, the Tucson Police Department's newly-formed gang-outreach unit is searching the rooms of kids in the program. The searches, police and City Council members say, are meant to be educational, showing concerned parents signs of gang activity. But they've raised the eyebrows of several neighborhood leaders, who view the searches as intrusive and heavy-handed — particularly since the gang unit deals with kids as young as 8 years old and the searches could...