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On an August day in 2011, a man stood outside City Hall in Newark, New Jersey, exhorting a crowd through a wireless microphone. “Stop giving love to these psychopaths,” he roared. The “psychopaths” were criminals; a few days earlier, a twenty-nine-year-old teacher named Dawn Reddick had been shot and killed—a seemingly random crime, except that killings in Newark had come to seem dispiritingly unrandom. The city was on its way toward ninety-three murders that year, with a population of two hundred and seventy-seven thousand people—a rate five times that of New York City, which sits less than ten miles east but often feels much farther.

The New Yorker     Sep 30, 2024