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Committee members said they were impressed with Watson's experience with community policing. As commander of the Englewood District from 1990 to 1994, Watson introduced community policing to one of Chicago's most crime-ridden neighborhoods and achieved spectacular success...
...sign on the squat brick schoolhouse in the midst of crime-ridden public-housing projects in Norfolk, Virginia, reads BOWLING PARK ELEMENTARY: A CARING COMMUNITY. Principal Herman Clark is one of those who does the caring, which is why every year he takes the parents of his pupils on a field trip to local attractions. One year it was to Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. "We got the chance to see the electric chair," he says. There have been visits to a prison in Chesapeake and a women's penal institution in Goochland. Two months ago, it was a walk...
...came around, however, younger performers found its passionate, insistent rhythms a more fitting vehicle for the messages they wanted to deliver and for presenting the truth of their lives. Groups like Public Enemy carried the flag of black protest, and later, gangsta rappers like Snoop Doggy Dogg chronicled the crime-ridden neighborhoods in which they lived in scathing, scatological terms. Soul music was left to Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men and the like. Talented performers, yes. Standard-bearers for musical boundary pushing...
Each year, there is always a name or two that becomes a celebrity at Harvard. Last year, the name Gina M. Grant was especially popular as students participated in the eternal debate as to whether or not the elite Harvard should have admitted such a horrific crime-ridden person. Well, she wasn't admitted; but many years ago, Theodore J. Kaczynski '62 was admitted. He was a math concentrator, he graduated and when he grew up, he became the suspected Unabomber! A celebrity. There is something almost sickly refreshing about the fact that the Unabomber may have graduated from Harvard...
...situation with regard to the homeless seems to be more complicated because the homeless, by definition, have no homes. But this does not change the fact that every American has a right to security and protection. Even in the most crime-ridden pockets of our cities, where these problems seem at least as intractable as the problems on the Holyoke grates, the government has not responded by expelling the residents of these neighborhoods. Instead, the state fights to maintain security and peace of mind even in these stricken areas. Surely the homeless of Cambridge deserve the same treatment...