Word: crime-ridden
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...problem: one of those hopeless disaster areas known as a ghetto, an inner city, a slum. This particular one, on the northwest side of Fort Lauderdale, bore the cheerful name of Citrus Park, but it was a sullen collection of two dozen four-family stucco houses, dilapidated, garbage-strewn, crime-ridden...
...denounced the recent report of the Administration's Council on Human Resources and its get-tough approach to a crime-ridden school system...
Judy Kales, the owner of A Propos, a gift shop next door to Kimelli's said yesterday she was concerned about the robbery, but "we don't think the neighborhood is a crime-ridden area...
...moved through the officer ranks during the 1960s. promoted from within the department, his colleagues say. not because of political friendships but because of ability. In 1977. he became a deputy superintendent in the Boston Police and commander of Area B. one of Boston's most crime-ridden districts. encompassing Roxbury. Dorchester and Mattapan...
Hawkins' ordeal began last January when a man and woman entered his tiny grocery store in the crime-ridden heart of Watts. The two pulled out guns, took $140 in cash and $50 in food stamps, and fled. Hawkins, who had been robbed half a dozen times in the past, followed them outside and, in an exchange of gunfire, dropped the woman with a bullet in the head. She survived and, with her companion, went to jail...