... An article from the Niagara Gazette in the December 24, 2001 edition, shows the problems of this racing in Florida. "Troopers stopped about 350 cars, many of them juiced-up Hondas and Toyotas, and arrested 172 people in a sting targeting drag racers. Eleven people have been killed in ... article: "Across America last Friday, the same night the movie was released, teenagers and young adults gathered in the darkness, racing souped-up cars. The cars burning rubber down the streets in these modern drag races aren't the tricked-out Fords of the 1950s featured in movies such as Rebel Without ....

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... to Street Patrols " (1993), by Craig Wolf , he states "Under Mayor David N. Dinkins's police program, known as "Safe Streets, Safe City," the department's average daily patrol strength -- officers in radio cars and on foot patrol during a 24-hour period -- has increased from 6,640 in August 1990 to 7,813 for the current fiscal year, ending in June 1993 "(Wolf,1993,p.1). Adding more ... ...

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... will turn their departments bad, police brass around the country were lending an uneasy ear to the tales of officers sharing lines of coke from the dashboard of their squad cars and scuttling down fire escapes with sacks full of cash stolen from dealers' apartments. (New York Times,April 3,1993:p.5) The Mollen Commission has not uncovered a citywide system of payoffs among ... ...

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... "If you don't move yo feet/ den I don't eat." In accordance to freedom of expression principles, which hip-hop was founded upon, some artists have decided to rhyme about fancy cars, clothes, and other riches. However, others decided to produce music that speaks of hell, sin, the devil, and damnation. New hip-hop artist Pastor Troy, a Georgia native, is somewhat of ... ...

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... all art is similar. All aspects of modern culture had similarities whether it was a television, assembly line, commercial, or person. They used any objects, magazines, food, newspaper illustrations, clothing, furniture, cars and even cartoons as part of their theories on art. During this time, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauchenberg continued to explore the field of Pop Art, as well as many ... ...

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... named Eugene Williams, and hit him on the head. The boy died from this and a riot ensued where whites used bats, steel bars, and revolvers and drove around in their cars to attack black people. A Polish neighborhood was even burned down to get them to side with the rest of the white people in attacking the blacks. Rents in black communities ... ...

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