Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Detroit resorted to near martial law after roving gangs of young toughs with names like the Black Killers, the Errol Flynns, the Sheridan Strips and the Bishops virtually took over the streets of the city's scrubby east side. Perhaps as many as 500 of the gang members are concentrated in the impoverished Fifth Precinct, a 6-sq.-mi. moonscape of abandoned storefronts, crumbling homes and schools, littered streets and sidewalks. Once a quiet white community, the precinct is nearly all black, its various sections divided into territories controlled by one or another of the gangs...
...crowning horror occurred at a Cobo Hall rock concert in downtown Detroit in mid-August. Some 125 black youths, apparently acting in unison, beat and robbed scores of patrons and gang-raped one woman. For a full hour, undermanned police outside the hall refused to intervene-on the incredible grounds that Cobo Hall had promised to provide its own security. When they finally did bestir themselves, they arrested 47 hoodlums; all have been released...
...squeeze, he rehired 675 of them and immediately assigned 200 to gang-busting patrols. The city council also ordered the curfew, which curtailed the gangs' activities, at least for the moment. Aside from ordering a tightening of procedures, however, there was not much that Young could do about Detroit's overburdened and overly lenient juvenile-court system, whose facilities are so inadequate that robbers and rapists under the age of 18 are sometimes back on the streets within hours...
...situation obviously calls for more than palliatives-and it extends beyond Detroit. So far, neither President Ford nor Jimmy Carter has placed much emphasis on the plight of the large cities. The outbreak in Detroit-a chilling reminder of the violent riots that resulted in 43 deaths and more than $100 million in damage there in 1967-should signal to both candidates that the cities' cries for help can go unheeded only at grave risk. Aside from America's mayors, however, most politicians seem blithely willing to take that risk. Michigan's Republican Governor William Milliken...
...very day the mayor spoke, Detroit was mourning the death of a good Samaritan priest, Msgr. Thomas Jobs, who was gunned down in his rectory in a robbery that netted a few dollars. No charges have been filed...