I sat in a semi-circle with a group of residents in the backyard of an apartment complex. It was a city neighborhood, the apartment building was subsidized.…
The blocks are bleak; the street corner is barren.
I drive by the liquor store and no one is loitering, not even the drunks.
All but one of the boys is in…
A young man was murdered.
Then days later a ten-year-old girl was shot.
I stood in the back of a muggy basement where police officers, reporters, housing…
Resolving the beef between the Noose Set gang and the L Street gang rested on the shoulders of a fifteen-year-old . . . .
It was nearly time to bring the two…
Gizz called me.
“I’m out of jail”, he said.
He was arrested for breaking and entering (B & E). That’s his MO (Modus operandi).
He’d say, “I been B…