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...reduce gang-related violence in America's inner cities, goes the conventional wisdom, is to persuade teenagers to quit their gangs. But that prescription seemed a little too simplistic to Chicago bureau chief Jon Hull, who had reported extensively on such groups during a stint in TIME's Los Angeles bureau. Says Jon: "When you join a gang, you make a very serious commitment. I had the sense that it wasn't so easy to leave one." So he took to the streets for three weeks, trying to find out what it takes to graduate from a gang. His frightening...
...about getting out. The money and security are too good and the alternatives too few. The gang is a surrogate family and the only source of approval, however convoluted, that they'll ever know. Pathetically, all the bloodshed is merely a by-product of an utterly misguided and frantic inner-city search for respect. "What other world do these kids know?" asks George Knox, director of the Gang Crime Research Center at Chicago State University...
Many anxious inner-city parents send their children to live with relatives out of state. Unfortunately, many of these kids simply start new gangs, rather than new lives, in Grandma's neighborhood. "They've just transported the cancer," says Sergeant McBride, who has a large map on his office wall covered with red and blue flags showing how the Los Angeles Crips and Bloods have metastasized across the country...
Despite these characteristics, fate and history and my almost chronic sense of inner responsibility have made my life full of paradoxes and absurdities. I was always active in public life as a citizen. This is something I considered an integral part of my mission as a writer. This is something I will have to continue doing. Knowing myself, I won't disappear from public life. It may become another absurdity and paradox of my life that I could be the President of two different states within a short period of time...
...national government into effective action against the criminals it has long tolerated. A week before his death, Borsellino told friends, "The tnt for me has already arrived in Palermo." With estimated annual profits of $20 billion at stake, the Mob had decided that he knew too much about its inner workings to live...