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People have always accused kids of getting away with murder. Now that is all too literally true. Across the U.S., a pattern of crime has emerged that is both perplexing and appalling. Many youngsters appear to be robbing and raping, maiming and murdering as casually as they go to a movie or join a pickup baseball game. A new, remorseless, mutant juvenile seems to have been born, and there is no more terrifying figure in America today...
Analysts tirelessly?and correctly ?say that unemployment, slum housing, inadequate schools and the pathology of the ghetto contribute to the spreading scourge of youth crime. But the reverse is also true: the ripple effects of crime eventually overwhelm a city and destroy its élan. People are frightened away from downtown, reducing business for stores, theaters, restaurants. In their place, thick as weeds, sprout porno houses, massage parlors and gambling havens, where criminals thrive...
Most important is the breakdown in the family. "The old saws about the family are true," says Judge Seymour Gelber, who hears 1,000 delinquency cases a year in Dade County, Fla. "We look for quick solutions, but family stability is the long-term answer." Adds Detective Ellen Carlyle: "The parents don't seem to care. They turn to the police and say. 'Here's my problem. Take care of it.' But they must start caring for their children in infancy...
...record as favoring the B-l bomber. But, he says, "personally and morally I'm absolutely opposed to the B-l." In almost any other country, Winpisinger's agenda would scarcely seem all that far left. That it seems radical in the U.S. is a true measure of the labor conservatism that Wimpy intends to change...
...True to his word, the murderer struck again last week, creeping up behind a couple parked on a tree-shaded street near a disco-théque in the borough of Queens and firing four shots from his .44-caliber Charter Arms "Bulldog." Though Judy Placido, 17, and Salvatore Lupo, 20, his tenth and eleventh victims, were wounded, both miraculously survived. But the latest, and most publicized, attack tightened the grip of fear on neighborhoods in Queens and in The Bronx, where the bizarre, psychopathic killer has chosen his targets...