Word: largey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instances of neglect, inaction, and total incomprehension of the needs of its constituency. Designed primarily as a power broker for Cambridge youth, the Bureau has consistently refused even to speak out as an agency on the most visible community issue ever to face its clientele: the death of Larry Largey...
...unreleased evaluation conducted by the GCLE funding committee during the time of the Largey incident said that "the bureau has done its best work in its lower priority areas" of individual contact. The report concluded that the Bureau's structure had effectively "insulated the administration both from other staff and the client population." And it termed the core Bureau's four-level decision-making process "needlessly complex" for a staff...
...bosses," said a 17-year-old from North Cambridge. "They don't have enough people out on the street getting to know the kids. The only time I saw a lot of them out on the street was when the shit was going down in East Cambridge (during the Largey incident). And then they were all just running around. They didn't know what to do. They really wanted in on that. Maybe the word came down from City Hall to get the kids off the street...
...LARRY LARGEY HIMSELF had been on the YRB's caseload. But although the Bureau referred him to an alcoholism program at the hospital, no one seems to have ever worked with him directly. During the riots following his death, certain Bureau administrators were patrolling the streets with expensive new walkie-talkies. Part of the strategy was to get kids to wear armbands identifying the neighborhoods from which they came, supposedly for the protection of those who were connected with the Bureau. Saravelas, meanwhile, was riding around in a car with Police Chief Reagan. Although the staff members wanted to take...
...year history, we have had an uphill battle with the police department," he continued, dreamily oblivious of the impression created by riding in a police car during the Largey riots. "But today, we are beginning to be recognized by some of the people who thought we were awful, some of the people who had to compete with us. Now they are saying, 'They certainly have a good relationship with the kids...