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Adolfo's Story
Adolfo Davis has been in jail since the age of fourteen, sentence to life in prison without parole for murder. In Illinois, it's legal to question a fourteen-year-old without the presence of a defense attorney so long as a youth officer is present, and the child is made aware of his rights.
Tags: accountability; murder; drug territory; parole; probation officer; testimony; sentencing
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Deadly Moves
The Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Tranformation was an effort to demolish the city's public housing buildings and replace them with mixed-income neighborhoods. But the demolition puts competing street gangs and drug dealers in small public housing spaces. The number of murders has increased since 2000. The reporters uncover whether this plan has a negative or positive impact, and what the city plans to do about the growing conflict.
Tags: Chicago Housing Authority; Plan for Tranformation; public housing; mixed-income neighborhoods; territorial disputes
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Drug killings boom in just 16 months
In this package of stories, The Columbus Dispatch examines the reasons behind a surge in drug violence. According to the newspaper's computer analysis of crime records, the drug business in Columbus is marked by the kind of planned violence and territorial disputes often seen in other types of organized crime. Drive-by, multiple and drug killings are rising, as well as the fatal shootings of bystanders. The package includes profiles of some of the victims.
Tags: drug violence; drugs; drug killings; crime; organized crime
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Village Voice (New York) describes how Ross Perot, when he became Texas drug czar in the early 1980s, pulled together a network of former Green Berets to intercept drug dealers outside the territorial boundaries of the United States; raises doubts about Perot's Iran rescue mission in 1979; questions his involvement with SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, and speculates that he jeopardized the safety of the 52 American hostages, June - July 1992.
Tags: NY Snepp Oliver North
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San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle looks at the "yakuza," the Japanese equivalent of the Mafia, which controls much of the entertainment and construction industries in Japan, plus tourism, gun smuggling and drugs in Hawaii and Los Angeles; now the group is staking out territory in San Francisco, Dec. 5, 1982.
Tags: CA