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“As we’ve lost resources, we’ve stopped doing delinquency prevention, and it’s not a coincidence that we’ve seen an explosive growth in drugs and gangs,” said Barry Nidorf, the county’s chief probation officer. “Punishment without services is useless, just as services without sanction...