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...definitely disatisfied," Bragg said. "The causes of the L.A. riots still exist. Inner city decay, the pervasiveness of police brutality and the inadequacies of our judicial system--none of these problems have been cured...
...politically incorrect that even raising it requires more bravery than many scientists can muster. Critics from the social sciences have denounced biological research efforts as intellectually unjustified and politically motivated. African-American scholars and politicians are particularly incensed; they fear that because of the high crime rates in inner cities, blacks will be wrongly branded as a group programmed for violence...
...dealing with street crime is that the city skimped on its budget for so long. Los Angeles has only 1.3 officers per 1,000 citizens, compared with 5 per 1,000 in New York City. Williams, 49, the city's first black police chief, has won points with inner- city residents for many conciliatory gestures. In a town accustomed to faceless cops in prowl cars and helicopters, the new chief is promoting community policing, which encourages contact between officers and the neighborhoods they patrol. "Willie Williams is the best thing that's happened to this city," says Bernard Kinsey...
With his characteristic booster spirit, Ueberroth overestimated what his group could do. He spoke of making the riot-torn parts of the inner city the safest in Los Angeles. Using numbers provided by a study group he commissioned, he set out to raise $5 billion in private-sector investment over five years to bring at least 75,000 jobs to neglected parts of the city. By the group's own definition, that area encompassed 163 sq. mi. with 2.5 million residents...
...approached mostly big corporations at first, urging them to invest cash in the poor neighborhoods, but found them wary. He ran into resistance too from minority business people, who resented him for playing the role of the Great White Hope. As the months wore on and much of inner-city Los Angeles remained in ruins, citizens found it easy to blame Ueberroth for letting them down...