[At-Large] Issue Report on Thick Whois

[Karl Auerbach]

On 11/24/2011 10:35 AM, Bill Silverstein wrote:

> In the USA and many cities, the public are asked to provide police with
> tips and information.

Not a new practice, but one that has a history.  For instance consider
the following first sentence from a book about the effects of the
practice of "provid[ing] police with tips and information":

"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done
nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested."

   The Trial, by Franz Kafka