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...supermarket. Vernon Lewis, 22, formerly defaced the buses he now works to keep clean. Says he: "The reason we were out there destroying buses is that we didn't have nothing to do. We were the problem." In Atlanta, the police are looking to the citizens for help. George Napper, the city's black public safety commissioner, helped create Partnership Against Crime, a program in which citizens and police identify safety problems in communities and work out ways to deal with them. So far, that has involved shifting police patrol hours, setting up neighborhood-watch programs and business-watch groups...
...bodies have been recovered, but the potential number of victims grew to 22 when the name of Joseph Bell, 15, who had been missing since March 3, was added to the list. Atlanta has a worsening problem in other crimes as well. The city's black police chief, George Napper, who has a Ph.D. in criminology, sees his job in grim cartoon-like terms. Says he: "When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember your purpose is draining the swamp...
...deal. I got the bread, then to show him I wasn't just kidding around, I shot him three times.' And the guy next to him says, 'Well, you think that's bad? I took a shot and blew the dude's head off.' " Adds Atlanta Police Chief Napper: "There are a lot of young guys who just don't care, who go out and blow people away just for the hell of it." Chief Gates of Los Angeles takes a somewhat broader view. "We've lost a whole generation," he says. "Totally lost. No selfdiscipline. Total indulgence. Drugs. Lack...
Illustrations by JOHN NAPPER...
Some of the slum families were consumptive, some "harmless" (a euphemism for touched in the head) and some were looked down upon for reasons of caste: tinkers, or beggars, or those who live on charity, in the tenements (once fine 18th Century houses) of Napper Tandy Street. Twisty Nellie, a professional beggar who always promised a prayer to her benefactors, explained with spirit: "Sure how could I say a prayer for each one of them separate! I'd be at it all the day. I says a little prayer for the whole huroosh." Twisty Nellie's story, like...