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...draft dodgers and dissidents-or even the great numbers of social activists-who swelled their enrollments in the late '60s, while the evangelical schools have begun to reap a rich harvest from the Jesus movement. Union and Chicago are also losing out on new students because of their crime-ridden urban locations...
...higher taxes and higher spending have brought little if any improvement in public services. In many cases, the nation's streets are dirtier, its mass transit more decrepit, its public hospitals more understaffed, its streets more crime-ridden today than in decades. The knowledge that they are paying more and more for less and less service has bred in many citizens a suspicion that they are being cheated, and has fanned a mood of rebellion...
Some of the protests are clearly motivated by racism and unreason. Other objections, though, stem from parents' not unfounded fears that the buses will bring the corrosive problems of the ghettos to "their" schools, or take their children into the midst of the ghettos' often violent, crime-ridden culture. White parents fear that their children will be exposed to what blacks have learned to hate?the rapes, ripoffs, robberies and dope addiction that have turned all too many inner-city schools into blackboard jungles where learning is less important than learning how to survive. Beyond that, whites who have moved...
...plagued the Warren Court. Examples abound. The Warren Court's application of most Bill of Rights safeguards to all criminal defendants now seems as self-wounding to the nation's highest tribunal as it then seemed vital to American justice. By overlooking the real fears of a crime-ridden society, the court made itself a political target, which in turn encouraged police evasion of its rules, the very official lawlessness that it had aimed to curb in the first place...
Most important, the plan does not recognize the extent to which fear determines day-to-day decisions in the crime-ridden Detroit area. City dwellers, fearing for their safety and property, seek refuge in the suburbs. Suburbanites, afraid to shop downtown, create a demand for more outlying shopping centers, which erode Detroit's appeal even more. What the area's citizens seemingly do not fear is precisely what Doxiadis fears most: continued suburban sprawl...