FATHER BOYLE
Don’t you know by now that glamour is a key element, a motivating force, behind gang involvement? Is it not possible to run a story without immortalizing the images of the very element that gave you a tragedy to cover? And putting gang members’ street names in print--that would give anyone positive reinforcement.
V. YAMASHITA
Long Beach
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