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Among the shattered expectations are notions about where crime happens, and to whom. While young men in the inner cities are by far the most likely group to be the victims of violent crimes, carjackers have begun recently to target women, the elderly, tourists -- the conspicuously vulnerable. And they hit in places that were supposed to be off limits. In big cities, soaked with drugs and guns, residents make certain concessions to safety. They learn what streets to avoid at night, what neighborhoods to avoid at all times, what activities to avoid at all costs. But now the generation that...
...long ago, many Americans dismissed the slaughter as an inner-city problem. But now the crackle of gunfire echoes from the poor, urban neighborhoods to the suburbs of the heartland. Omaha, with a population of 340,000, is just an average Midwestern city, which is why the story of its armed youth shows how treacherous the problem has become. The Omaha neighborhood of Benson, a tidy grid of suburban-style homes on the northwest side, has been taken by surprise. Three dozen shaken parents and troubled teenagers gathered on a rainy Tuesday night in May at the Benson Community Center...
...disc on his car CD player and cranks up the volume. "There's a lot of rappers that make a lot of sense," he says. His friend Scott nods reverently. But neither Doug nor Scott can explain what the songs mean to them. While the lyrics may address inner-city issues, the tone resonates among white teenagers like them simply because it's the angriest stuff on the market...
They're armed, dangerous and live next door. From inner cities to quiet suburbs, America's youth have developed a fatal attraction to firearms...
...designer of the giant chess set. Dr. Michael chess to runs program promoting chess to inner-city children, a branch of which is run by Phillips Brooks House...