Crime does not discriminate. We know we have issues on the North Side, but it's not just the North Side. It's on the South Side, West Side and the East Side.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.

Maybe I'm just gonna kill you," says Mike, peeved at being predictable. "You ever think of that?"

"No, Mike. Because if you wanted me dead, then four or five of your guys would be in the hospital and I'd have a flesh wound. Maybe.

In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances. He had started off listening to an old Bush radio in the corner of the living room and now he had a phone in his hand on which he could pretend to throw a scrunched-up piece of paper into a waste bin. The world had waited a long time for that.

This is a horrendous crime; they just crashed into the residences and began hitting and shooting. There's been a series of home invasions of Hispanics. Much of it goes unreported to the police.