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Exploring blighted U.S. neighborhoods, especially in Los Angeles and Chicago, posed both physical and emotional challenges for our correspondents. Notes Los Angeles-based Jon Hull: "For trespassers armed with only pen and paper, the scrutiny of the resident youth gang can be nearly unbearable. I passed through a gauntlet of youths with a pounding heart." His apprehension soon gave way to sadness. "While most Americans make a point of avoiding the bad side of town, those within dream of one day escaping. My depressing conclusion was that few will succeed...
...from Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Kansas City have been put in prison since last January. Federal and state investigators are confident that the string of convictions will break down the discipline that the Mafia's commission had enforced. Created in the 1930s after a particularly bloody period of gang warfare, the commission divides turf among families, settles disputes and sanctions the slayings of those who break the rules. It now has several vacancies that may not be easy to fill. "The machinery to resolve those disputes has been wiped out," contends Ronald Goldstock, head of the New York State...
Lucchese. Corallo may be succeeded by Neil Migliore, 53, whom Franceschini describes as a hothead capable of starting a gang war for control. A climber in the family for a decade, he runs a marble business, including the sale of tombstones, but specializes in illegal gambling...
...year-old Booker Cole, with an air of bravado. "There was a time when people wouldn't even talk to me because I would either beat them up or 'smoke' them if I didn't like what they said." A member of one of Los Angeles' biggest black street-gang networks since he was ten, Cole has served time for robbery and cocaine dealing. Now he is back in jail after being sentenced last May to serve six years for assault with a deadly weapon. "Death is a part of living," says he. "The only thing...
...south central Los Angeles. He knows. Almost two years ago, a good portion of his calf was blown away when he was shot at point-blank range -- by his cousin. "He wanted money for drugs," contends DeJurnett. "He just flipped out and blasted me." A heavyset former gang member who once served eleven months for mugging a woman and dislocating her shoulder, DeJurnett now has a part-time job as a construction worker and lives in a small stucco house with his wife and two boys. He blames the drug trade for much of the violence that marked the life...