When you take away all of the productive things for at risk children to do after school, the streets become the only option. The public high school that I went to was pretty much open every day from 6am to 7 or 8 at night. There was always something going on. Visual and Performing Arts Center (VAPAC...our school had a radio station), the library, academic and social clubs, sports practices/games, the basketball gym, which was open to the public on weekends, just to name a few. Our school was a safe place in the neighborhood. Now they whittle away at aftershool programs until the schools become ghost towns in the late afternoon, which is a pivotal time of day for a lot of teenagers.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
