| A recent Wall Street Journal article
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| | examiner studied the death certificates
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| called, "Murder Spike Poses Quandary"
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| | of his victims and realized that 60
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| talks about how criminologists are
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| | percent of them had quit school over a
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| offering a number of explanations for an
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| | five-year period.
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| increase in the murder rate in some
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| | There are a number of organizations that
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| cities over the last month. In Washington
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| | are trying to do something about the
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| in April 2008 there were 18 murders
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| | negative aspects in their communities,
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| during a 13 day violence spurt, 20
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| | including Children of the City in
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| percent deadlier than one year ago.
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| | Brooklyn who believe that improving the
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| Other cities including Chicago and
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| | quality of life involves breaking the
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| Philadelphia had similar murder waves
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| | cyclical effects of poverty, therefore
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| during the same period. This leads
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| | giving families hope. In this community
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| criminologists to wonder if this
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| | alone there is a 48 percent high school
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| signifies the srat of a new trend. People
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| | drop out rate. With 30,000 children, that
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| studying crime tell us they can see no
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| | means 15,000 are dropping out. One in
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| easy explanations, other than the usual
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| | three families are under the poverty
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| usual reasons like poverty, gangs, easy
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| | level. A culture of drugs and gang, 1,000
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| access to guns and the economy.
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| | deaths annually. Kids are into violent
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| Murder rate statistics overall have
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| | acts like selling drugs.
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| dropped for years, but lately have been
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| | They believe that the only way to fix the
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| inching up in the black community --
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| | problem is via educating kids and their
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| accounting for only 13 percent of the
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| | families. For more than two and a half
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| country's population. However more
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| | decades, this group of volunteers has
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| African-Americans are killed in the U.S.
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| | been making a difference through programs
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| than any other racial group, and it
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| | like its Create Success program,
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| accounts for 49 percent of all murder
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| | countering the near 50 percent drop out
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| victims, states the FBI.
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| | rate and instigating positive change.
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| One county medical examiner in Cincinnati
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| | The best news is that almost half of the
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| who analyzed all the available data on
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| | kids enrolled in the education program
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| his region's most recent murder victims
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| | believe that it helped deter them from
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| thinks that the reason is lack of
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| | drugs.
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| education. This Hamilton County medical
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