Kicked Out

By Nick Summers
As the foreclosure crisis escalates, evictions are on the rise nationwide. But statistics don’t capture the human drama involved in each of these cases, from the homeowners who suddenly find themselves and their possessions on the curb, to the law-enforcement officials charged with supervising the process. “Until you’re physically out there, you can’t really get the magnitude of what you’re actually up to,” says Cook County, Ill., Sheriff Thomas Dart. “It sounds like it’s an antiseptic process, and it’s anything but.” Here, a Colorado Springs, Colo., property manager breaks down a tenant’s door during an eviction in February 2009.