Marginalization encourages violent crimes
On Saturday night, my friend and I decided to walk to the shore — a two-mile walk from our off-campus apartments. On Howard Street, a few blocks past the Yale-New Haven Hospital, we were mugged and then assaulted by a group of 14- and 15-year-olds who inflicted a slash across my face and then escaped with our wallets and my cell phone.
I write this piece not to deplore the state of un-security that can be found on our fair city’s streets, but rather to express my disquieted sense that New Haven and cities all over our nation are failing to address the basic problems of poverty when...
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