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Area 4 is Cambridge's poorest neighborhood and is the only one to contain a majority of non-white residents. Its residents have an average annual income of only $24,665--half that of some of Cambridge's wealthier areas. Unemployment stands at more than 10 percent, double the rate in most of the city's other neighborhoods...
...home for Amadou Diallo was an apartment in the Soundview section of the Bronx. It was just after midnight, a time when the city's elite Street Crime Unit could often be seen patrolling the poorest neighborhoods. The SCU's motto said as much: We Own the Night. The unit had been expanded, perhaps too quickly, from 150 undercover officers to nearly 400. Recruits were given only three days of intensive training. The unit belonged to no precinct and was based on one of the islets in the East River, isolated from every borough but having the freedom...
...upshot has been the biggest police scandal in Los Angeles history. At the center is the Rampart division--a police station in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods--and its special antigang unit. In the six months since Perez started talking, lurid revelations about law enforcement Rampart-style have emerged almost daily: allegations that cops raped a woman while on duty; accusations that a cop interrogating a handcuffed man beat him until he vomited blood; a fast-growing list of prisoners who were allegedly railroaded with fabricated evidence and police lies...
...sometimes ready to scrap a policy on the spot. When Jonathan Chait of the New Republic questioned his commitment to the dispossessed--pointing out that McCain's tax-cut plan does nothing for low-income people--McCain said, "Maybe I'm not paying attention to the poorest of America. Maybe my priorities are not correct. I selected this course not thinking that it's perfect but thinking that it's the best that I could come up with...
...fact, as the job becomes more like that of a CEO, fewer school executives trained in the traditional way are willing and able to take it on. The pool of applicants is shrinking, leaving millions of America's poorest kids--in cities that include New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore and Las Vegas--in school systems run by the managerial equivalent of a substitute teacher...