IT'S TIME TO TAKE CRIME SERIOUSLY

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Monday, December 7, 1992

Responding to a concern over crime in the state's urban centers expressed in a recent column, a woman from Washington, Mo., berated us for worrying about a problem that was the fault of residents living in the affected neighborhoods. The gist of her letter was that since this was a problem of the big cities, it had no bearing or interest on decent citizens who live outside the metropolitan areas. The writer's view was not unusual since one finds it not only among outstate Missourians but those who inhabit more affluent subdivisions in suburban areas.

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