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...this American trend is suburbia -- mass shootings by high schoolers appear to be confined to mostly white, suburban schools, rather than the inner city communities more commonly plagued by gun violence. "Violence in minority neighborhoods and schools tends to be gang- and drug-related," says TIME correspondent Elaine Rivera. "In suburbia, though, it appears to be influenced by intense alienation and isolation, combined with easy access to guns and a culture that teaches kids, in everything from movies to foreign policy, that violence is a valid means of resolving problems." The isolation of the latchkey kid is even more intense...
...wake of an April 1998 incident in which two white state troopers fired 11 shots into a van carrying three African-Americans and one Hispanic. ?This is a systematic problem that everyone in the minority community believes is a well-established police practice,? says TIME correspondent Elaine Rivera. ?Finally, here is a major acknowledgment that race profiling isn?t just a complaint by a few people...
...Racial profiling is a potent political issue, not only because of the charges of discrimination it raises, but also, according to TIME New York correspondent Elaine Rivera, "because the African-American community has been one of Bill Clinton's strongest supporters, as was particularly evidenced during his impeachment battle." In New Jersey, where two white state troopers last April fired 11 shots into a van carrying three African-Americans and a Hispanic, wounding three of the men, a section of the New Jersey Turnpike will be closed Saturday while forensic experts reenact the shooting. A state grand jury is investigating...
...People of color see racial profiling as a systematic problem that feeds on itself," says Rivera. "If police pull over more people of color because they fit a certain profile, then naturally they will tend to arrest more people of color for whatever infractions they uncover." The results of the arrests can then be used unfairly to justify the practice. Critics say this is a circular standard, and that it can be applied against any group of people police wish to target. Moreover, says Rivera, leading critics who have seen the criteria set forth in the profiles report that...
Instead, they can expect "sloppy clip jobs" from previously known scandals and " a handful of uncorroborated charges" made against Republicans. And this is only after leafing through a 16-page history of Flynt's media treatment, eight pages of responses from fans, and a note from Geraldo Rivera. It seems that though President Clinton unfortunately had plenty of skeletons in his closet to be unearthed, even Flynt's million-dollar enticement could not lure the snitchers to reveal enough about Republicans to fill an 84-page book...