Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streets. We will stand for it no longer." Detroit's police needed no further encouragement. Minutes after the curfew went into effect, plainclothesmen and uniformed cops were out in force, and anything that moved was fair game. At one point, a two-man team sighted three black youths on a dark street corner. "What are you doing out now?" demanded one cop as his partner covered the trio with a lethal-looking 12-gauge shotgun. "We were just coming home from skating, man," said one youth. "You're skating," barked the cop, "right to jail." And off they...
...recent months gang members have blazed a trail of terror. They accosted one youth on the street, ordered him to run, then shot him in the buttocks for no reason. They boarded buses and relieved all passengers of their valuables. They branched out to the Edsel Ford and the Lodge freeways, descending on stalled cars like army ants to rob, beat and rape terrified motorists. They devised a game called "Russian," in which one punk would knock on the door of a home while his confederates hid in the bushes; when the door opened, the whole mob would storm...
...judges and a new county jail. It will request authority for judges, rather than state social workers, to incarcerate juvenile offenders. A 40-member economic-growth council will be formed to help ease "the crushing burden of unemployment." Earlier, Young had declared, "I want the pimps, prostitutes, gangs and youth rovers off the streets. We're going to rid the city of them...
Typical of the week's victims was a widow, Mary Ndhovu, the mother of five children, who used to run a fleet of three taxis left to her by her husband. One cab was hijacked and burned out by black youths at the beginning of the Soweto disturbances in June. Last week, fearful of breaking the boycott, she kept her remaining taxis at home. But at midweek a youth, fleeing a Zulu gang, ran through the garden of her home. The enraged Zulus, thinking she had given him refuge, kicked down her front door, smashed her furniture and windows...
...Miller, who has a doctorate in social work, became head of Massachusetts' department of youth services and set out to reform the state's Dickensian juvenile prisons. Some 800 teenage inmates were locked in the concrete cottages of 10 institutions, where their keepers could have them kicked, beaten and put into solitary cells called "the tombs." Miller tried to turn these juvenile warehouses into "therapeutic communities" run by staffers who cared about rehabilitation...