Word: detroit
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...past year, at a cost of more than $700,000. Latest figures show that Washington, D.C., has paid $180,202 to repair 36,525 broken windows. Damage to Los Angeles schools totals $125,000 from fires, $30,000 from malicious mischief, and $250,000 from thefts. In Detroit, vandalism and thefts cost the schools $415,000 and their insurance coverage. New York's official toll of major vandalism was $1,500,000-not including "minor items" such as furniture breakage and defaced walls, for which the school system had to pay more than...
...Lindsay's unique touch with the poor confined to New York. Touring Newark slums last week as vice chairman of the President's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (other commission members were visiting Detroit and New York), he was quickly recognized and surrounded. "You're the most beautiful cat in the world," one man told him. Lindsay just smiled. He had heard it before...
Actually, there are 300,000 or more citizens with that kind of public spirit in the U.S., and police, fire and other authorities are quickly catching on to the kind of help they can give. During the recent riots in Detroit, for example, the police received some 500 calls from two-way radio operators alerting them to trouble spots. Elsewhere, from Providence, R.I., to San Francisco, at all hours of the day or night, such callers are saving lives, spotting fires, getting aid to accident victims, and even bailing out motorists stalled on expressways...
...REACT (Radio Emergency Associated Citizens Team), under which some 50,000 citizen operators have been organized into 1,600 teams, each of which is required to maintain sufficient membership to guard citizens-band Channel 9 (a nationwide emergency channel) 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In Detroit, the Automobile Manufacturers Association operates the headquarters of HELP, whose several thousand members man a network of two-way radios designed primarily to help stranded motor vehicle drivers...
...commits a crime while drunk is nonetheless responsible for his act. But what of those who commit crimes while under the influence of something more unorthodox? In Detroit last week, Juvenile Court Judge James Lincoln surprisingly found that it makes a difference...