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...C.C.W. member spots a crime in progress, he telephones the police as well as his block captain and two other volunteers. Each of those three calls another three members, and so on until all the volunteers in the neighborhood are notified. Armed with pencils and notebooks instead of .38s, the crime watchers jot down details of the crime and suspects before the police arrive. Local authorities give the program high marks. "It's fantastic," says one South Miami policeman. "I wish I had a hundred of them." And without guns, the C.C.W. manages to be the area...
...adds. To commemorate the patriotic tendencies of the youth assembled behind him, Ullrich awards Minuteman Tech principal Ron Fitzgerald a flag that was flown not only over the Capitol, but also over a southwestern Air Force Base, where it was in the "honored position" while a flyby of T-38s passed over...
...rivalry between the two gangs started with fistfights four years ago in the high school cafeteria. Then someone brought his mother's gun to school, and the killing started. Now the battles are called "gang-bangs," and they are often settled by blasts from sawed-off shotguns and .38s. Police estimate that about ten members of the Piru and the Crips have been killed to date. "People get high and just don't care sometimes," Bartender explains. "Somebody says go do something, and everybody is game for it because they don't want to look like they...
Bartender's courage often came from marijuana, cocaine, acid, "whites" (amphetamines) and "reds" (Seconal). They are still easy to get and so are guns. "You can get any kind of a 'roscoe'-twelve-gauge shotguns, four-ten shotguns, 9-mm. pistols, 38s, .357-cal. Magnums. I remember one person outside the gang even had a flamethrower...
Until the third chapter Coyle is referred to only as "the stocky man," in much the same way that a surveillance report would characterize a short man who is carrying too much weight. Eddie is on a desperate course. He has a lucrative deal supplying factory-fresh 38s to a bank robber named Jimmy Scalisi, but he is also up for sentencing for a truck hijacking. "I can't afford to do no more time." he tells a friendly federal prosecutor. "The kids're growing up and they go to school and the other kids make...