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...absurdly out of proportion to the take. "They'll knock out a $400 window for a box of paper clips. They'll kill you for your belt buckle," says Patrolman Dennis Hansen. "They have no value system-zero." Drug dealing is so blatant that a visiting city councilman and plainclothes policeman were solicited at their car windows. Young Cuban entrepreneurs drop plastic Baggies of "Mexican brown" from their hotel fire escapes to accomplices in the street. Heroin, packaged in balloons, is hawked in the park like soda...
...been Jesse Jackson. No matter that other black officials are often grudging in their praise and that they resent the publicity he attracts with his flashy appearances. "Groups do work when Jesse's not around, when the reporters and cameras aren't there," says veteran Activist and Atlanta City Councilman John Lewis. Yet most admit that the flamboyant and magnetic Jackson and the "Southern Crusade" run by his Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) have helped spark excitement among rural blacks. "After he came, enthusiasm really revived, especially among the 18-to-24-year-olds," says Thompson...
...children from a poor St. Louis family, Waters graduated from California State University-Los Angeles. She owned a public relations firm and then worked as a deputy to Los Angeles City Councilman David Cunningham before her 1976 election to the assembly. She is married with two grown children...
Area residents have started a trust fund for Andrea and a legal-defense fund for Williams. Contributions in $5 and $10 amounts arrive daily. "We've gotten phone calls from Iowa, Utah, Florida, Delaware, you name it," says David Collins, a city councilman who has led the defense-fund drive. "last week a white man stopped his car in traffic and jumped out to say how much he was behind our efforts to help Willie and his little girl...
...year-old sister. Some black residents argue that the inability of the city's predominantly white police force to cope with crime in their areas also lies behind rage like Williams'. "You dial 911 and half the time the car won't come," says Councilman Collins. "I'm not indicting the police-there are just too many criminals, too much crime...