when the office realized that the Police Athletic League Gym in West Harlem, which usually offered sports programming for young people, was closed on weekend nights, when crime rates tend to surge, so precisely when vulnerable teens needed to stay occupied. “That made no sense to us ...
Hispanic school dropout rates and teen birthrates are now the highest in the nation. Gang crime is ex- ploding nationally — rising 50% from 1999 to 2002 — driven by the march of His- panic immigration east and northacrossthecountry. Most worrisome, under- class indicators like crime and...