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Perhaps the biggest lesson from the rapid rebound in Los Angeles gang murders, say cops and other gang experts, is that aggressive policing alone will never break the cycle of gang violence. Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest who works in gang-infested Boyle Heights, says the antigang strategy developed in California and copied elsewhere "is bankrupt. You have the three-strikes law and jail and so on, but you can't terrify a kid into being hopeful about his future." Many cops agree. "We don't need new laws," says Sergeant Wes McBride, founder of the California Gang Investigators...
...whenever Chino gets out of jail from his latest weapons-possession charge, he will still have nowhere to go but the gang neighborhood, nobody to hang with but his homeboys--and nothing to do but shoot at his enemies...
...spike in murders in Los Angeles shows, the gang nightmare is back. Gangs, it turns out, can take more beatings and lock-down time than any humane society is prepared to deal out. And it is the 13-year-old girl putting on makeup by her bedroom window who has to pay the price...
Bihar is one of the sorriest places on earth. The eastern Indian state is the poorest and most illiterate in the subcontinent. Extortion and gang wars are rife, thousands of people die in floods every few years, and NASA recently discovered a cloud of smog over Bihar five times as dense as that over Los Angeles. It's not a place where you'll find many tourists, and certainly not somewhere you'd expect a center of scholarly excellence...
...Setting the Record Straight One is Left Our Milestone on the death of radical Maoist Zhang Chunqiao [May 23] said in error that he was "the last surviving member of China's notorious Gang of Four." There is still one remaining member, Yao Wenyuan, who is living in Shanghai...