1. Worst Crimes of the Century
... Utah Jazz was canceled (Cannon, 1997) On Friday morning, Mayor Bradley announced that a dusk-to-dawn (7 p.m.-6 a.m.) curfew will take place immediately throughout the city. The sale of ammunition and gas will be prohibited (except for automobiles). That curfew hurt some businesses. A few store owners reported a $40,000 to $50,000 loss per day (Cannon, 1997). The violence that started ... around 7,000 fires started . The overall estimated damages in L.A was nearly 1 billion dollars.(Charting the Hours of Chaos, 2002) Not many events in history has had almost 1 billion dollars worth of da...
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