Word: ropp
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...other study, from the Journal of the American Medical Association, documented skyrocketing violence in the inner city. Dr. Leland Ropp and his colleagues in Detroit found that the overall rate of childhood death for all races in their city had risen 50% from 1980 to 1988. Tragically, almost the entire increase was linked to a jump of 250% in the rate of murder, usually by handguns, of black boys ages 10 to 14 and of black teenagers of both sexes, ages...
Preliminary figures show that the epidemic of murder -- fueled by access to cheap, powerful weapons -- spread to other large cities in 1989 and began moving to smaller cities this year. Says Ropp: "We're beginning to see children's homicides and gunshot wounds in places like Minneapolis and Pittsburgh, where we've never seen them before...