Word: ghettoes
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...trapped. He can barely read or write, even though he would have been in the seventh grade this year. Because he is nearly illiterate he could never hold even the meanest job for long. He has been running wild so long now that he may be beyond redemption. Ghetto children today are seduced much earlier by drugs and the street, some of them as young as eight or nine. That is the time they need help. Sinbad Lock wood, a Bed-Stuy street artist who tries to wean boys like Baby Love away from the streets to painting, says...
...when he first saw a man blown away-with a shotgun. He has faced down a few gunslingers himself. He sometimes carries a .25 automatic. "All my friends got guns," he says. "We go and try and shoot birds in the park." Trees are beaten to death in ghetto parks. Youngsters, too, get killed on summer evenings when there is disco music in the air. Tough, mean young men shoot it out like Western heroes of old. The dead are dumped in trashed buildings. Some of Baby Love's friends did not live through the summer. A cheeky dude...
...creators did not follow Sergeant Esterhaus' advice: they weren't careful out there. Writers-Producers Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll, Producer Gregory Hoblit and Director Robert Butler devised a "cop show" with no screaming car chases, no shining superheroes or disposable villains, no instant solutions to a ghetto full of predators and wary prey. Each episode tracks a day in the life of the policemen, the "blues," of an inner-city precinct. And at the end of each show, plot strands and predicaments are left hanging to be tied up next week or never. Hand-held cameras...
...uniforms read in the shade of oak trees. "The oasis," as the facility is called by the community, is one of more than 100 federally funded Job Corps centers in the U.S. Inside its gates 263 young people, ages 16 to 22, mostly high school dropouts from the surrounding ghetto, study English and bookkeeping, cooking and carpentry, social skills and selfdiscipline. They live in dormitories, and when they leave, they often move to entry-level employment, or the armed forces, or even, sometimes, to college...
...apply see the program as a last chance. While some drop out right away, those who stay usually commit themselves to a six-month residential program that is a cross between boot camp and boarding school. Says one South Bronx administrator: "If students went home at 5 p.m. to ghetto conditions, you would defuse 70% of what they learn." Job Corps staff not only provide vocational and remedial training but attempt to nurture cooperation and disciplined self-confidence. Even so, one teacher notes: "When they leave you know that the odds are still against them in almost every...