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...There are movies made everyday glorifying death, murder, and sex. Why does hip-hop have to be the first one to take the fall? -D. Lee in North Carolina It doesn't have to, but it does. People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. In the movies, the violence is so gratuitous. The sad truth is that people can't take it when it's reality. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier...
...mysterious black government sedans. But the press surrounding Barry’s rises and falls directed me, for the first time, to the uglier aspects of the city. Beyond the postcard images and the floods of tourists lay crime and violence so severe that many dubbed Washington the murder capital of the world. The District’s public education system was in shameful shape, and I became painfully aware that I lived in a small white enclave far removed from the city’s majority black population.Yes, I slowly learned, Washington was not always the inspiring metropolis that...
...pledged to press for mandatory 25-year sentences and a two-strikes death-penalty provision for convicted child predators. The proposal is a more extreme version of the so-called " Jessica's Law " passed by the Florida legislature in the wake of the February 2005 rape and murder of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford. That landmark statute imposed mandatory 25-year prison terms and life electronic monitoring for sex offenders, and since its passage in May 2005 42 states and Congress have implemented or are considering their own very similar laws...
...Even avowed supporters of the death penalty in murder cases think the Texas proposal would be a bad idea. "If you give the same sentence for molesting a little girl as for molesting and killing a little girl, it seems an incentive to go ahead and kill her," said Michael Rushford, head of the pro-death penalty Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento, Calif...
...thought it was the Dunster murder-suicide that really opened a lot of eyes around here in the 90s as far as logistical, on-the-ground things,” Wrinn said, referring to the 1995 incident when an undergraduate stabbed her roommate to death and hung herself. “There was kind of a switch then that pulled [the University] to begin to organize it more...