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JUSTICE: Crime & Scandal | January 11, 1986


FIGHTING CRIME & TERRORISM

BY FIGHTING POVERTY

An Unpublished Letter to Los Angeles Times

Although they can never be completely eradicated, local crime and international terrorism can be best controlled by undercutting their root cause: Poverty. Desperate people are more likely to do desperate things. That is why there are more gangs in Watts than in Beverly Hills, and more terrorists from Palestine than from the United States.

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