The caption of this photo in The Telegraph:
A picture of an armed sheriff moving through an American home after an eviction due to a mortgage foreclosure won the top prize in the World Press Photo competition
Jury members said the strength of the photo by Anthony Suau for Time magazine was in its opposites – it looks like a classic war photograph, but is simply the eviction of people from a house
Rodney’s comment accompanying the link:
When smug commentators talk of 1.5 million repo’s, 1 million lost jobs etc., etc., photos like this really bring home the human cost. This was someone’s home, maybe a family’s, and what is it now? A dangerous place for a cop.
Believe it was on Frontline a story about how banks hired a company to de-family a repoed home in Cali.
It was unbelievable, and have yet to get my head around it.
It was done so fast even those in the flee market business were over come with so much merchandise they no longer came on site.
A hugh dumpster was brought to the front door and everything in the house from artwork to childrens homework was thrown in and moved very quickly.
Why was no banks failing last year, and the year before and the year before?
With all the foreclosures and the glut on the market, in all likelihood this house will remain a dangerous place for police for some time.