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...Katherine, moving into the 14th and U area would have been a step up. A 10th-grade dropout with four children and no husband, she lived in a nearby but more crime-ridden neighborhood. She was waiting tables at a restaurant on Seventh Street, in a busy black commercial section, when she heard about the trouble at 14th and U. A glance at the street confirmed that the violence had already spread. People were breaking windows, and flames leaped from a building not far away. Shaking with fear, Katherine raced to her apartment, where she was horrified to discover that...
Johnson was later appointed to the position of deputy superintendent and became commander of Area, B, which includes the crime-ridden neighborhoods of Roxbury and Mattapan...
...unreasonable and lobby strongly to defeat: people will ordinarily be able to buy no more than one handgun a month. That should be enough for most amateur gun lovers, but not for the black-market professionals who have been buying weapons by the dozens and smuggling them into such crime-ridden cities as Washington, Baltimore, New York and Boston. As many as a quarter of New York City's handguns can be traced back to Virginia...
...what?" the ignorant masses want to What white sandy beaches? How about the smog-filled expressways and crime-ridden neighborhoods of the Motor City...
...addition to the basic tenet of eurocentrism inherent in his argument, Choi manipulates statistics to support his argument that Asians are a "model minority." For example, he explains that "many Black and Hispanic communities continue to suffer from low incomes, crime-ridden neighborhoods, broken homes," citing the Black, Hispanic and white poverty rates. He carefully omits the Asian poverty rate, thereby implying that Asians do not experience poverty at a significant rate...