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Article: FINDING A MEANS TO HELP YOUNG BLACK MEN.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 29, 1997
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Byline: WILLIAM RASPBERRY
WASHINGTON -- Five years ago, some 42 percent of young black men in the District of Columbia were in some sort of trouble with the law. They were locked up, on parole or probation, awaiting trial or being sought on an arrest warrant.
Today, it's just a hair under 50 percent. Don't be surprised if the numbers (supplied by the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives in Alexandria) are still worse five years from now. Why shouldn't they be worse? What is happening that would reverse that dismal trend? Where is the evidence that anyone is trying very hard to change it?
Oh, we'll talk about it for a few days, just ...