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LA Fights Park Crime With Midnight Lights

Even gang members invited to summer nights of food, music

By Katherine Thompson,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 12, 2009 1:41 PM CDT

(Newser) – Los Angeles' rundown parks used to be hotbeds of gang violence that scared away law-abiding neighbors after dark, but a new program has brought both a sense of community and a reduction in crime, the New York Times reports. The solution, which has already seen...   Read full story »

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