"The murder rate among black teenagers has climbed since 2000 even as murders by young whites have scarcely grown or declined in some places, according to a new report. The celebrated reduction in murder rates nationally has concealed a “worrisome divergence,” said James Alan Fox, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University who wrote the report, to be released Monday, with Marc L. Swatt. And there are signs, they said, that the racial gap will grow without countermeasures like restoring police officers in the streets and creating social programs for poor youths."
See full article in The Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/us/29homicide.html
Reading this is after California voted against a proposition to fund restorative and treatment programs for youthful offenders, instead voting for a stronger police presence and stricter punishments for gang affiliated youth, has me sick to my stomach.
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