An 8-year old girl shot in the back? Is this the crown jewel event for a city book-ended by decades of record murder rates? How does a community/culture begin recognizing and responding to "higher than average homicide rates" as an epidemic, as a public health and political crisis - rather than as an accident, an aberration, a headline indicating that some things that just happen in intensely urban areas, or distressed communities ... or something. A heartbreaking headline. Adding to the many hidden and overt deaths and murders.....
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- jimlouis 3-25-2004 9:09 pm
An 8-year old girl shot in the back? Is this the crown jewel event for a city book-ended by decades of record murder rates? How does a community/culture begin recognizing and responding to "higher than average homicide rates" as an epidemic, as a public health and political crisis - rather than as an accident, an aberration, a headline indicating that some things that just happen in intensely urban areas, or distressed communities ... or something. A heartbreaking headline. Adding to the many hidden and overt deaths and murders.....
- Angela (guest) 3-26-2004 6:18 am [2 comments]