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...thought all I would have to do was maintain that, yes, Kansas City is a real city. Downtown has everything from tall, fancy office buildings to inner-city crime-ridden areas. Perhaps I would avoid the cow questions...
...Crime Wave, a collection of reportage and short fiction, mixes truth and fiction without blinking. Ellroy investigates the unsolved murder of his mother, trying to make sense of the event that has determined the course of his life. He follows real-life L.A. Sheriff's Department Homicide men through their daily crime-ridden routines. He takes the O.J. Simpson trial as a launch pad for an insightful analysis of L.A. And he spices it all with two alliteratively lunatic novellas set on the tainted side of Hollywood's golden age. All in all, there is nothing particularly new about Crime...
Although Yale has a reputation among Ivy League undergraduates for being crime-ridden, university officials claim their campus is actually among the safest of the eight colleges
Public housing in America is almost universally acknowledged as a policy failure of mammoth proportions. But in a nation of neglected, rat-infested and crime-ridden housing projects, New Orleans has always rated special notoriety. Its government-subsidized apartments were consistently rated among the country's worst. One of its biggest projects, an 1,800-unit catastrophe called Desire, was long reputed to be the very worst. The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO), a political hornet's nest of patronage and chronic mismanagement, was so inept at making repairs that tenants routinely waited years for simple services. Hundreds...
Visclosky, with his Eastern European working-class heritage, resembles much of his First District constituency. He consistently promotes the local steel industry and has made crime a focus as well, winning a $3 million appropriation to fight drugs and gangs in crime-ridden Gary. Though he faced a tough challenger in 1994, Visclosky remains a favorite...