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...ELEMENTARY School is in the heart of Washington's seventh police district. It is known to some officers as "the jungle," because, as one black patrolman observes, "it's all about survival here." Across the street from the school is a graveyard, its iron fence mangled where a sixth-grader crashed a car he had hot-wired. Near an outside corner of the school is "the penthouse," where at night, under a mural of the U.S. flag and the words WE WANT A DRUG-FREE AMERICA, the crackhead prostitutes of Alabama Avenue sell themselves for $2 or $3. Every morning...
...They're not kids, they're really not," says Chester Earl Jordan, father of a five-year-old Malcolm X student. Jordan, along with others, patrols the neighborhood at night, a flashlight in one hand, and -- until recently -- a gun in the other. "If you sat down a third-grader and asked him how to weigh crack, how to bag it, how to load a 9-mm, how a beeper works, you're going to get first-rate answers right...
Edge's role goes well beyond providing security. "He's explained to my son how to be himself, how not to be a follower, to use his own judgment," says a grateful Sylvia Chavis, a single parent and mother of sixth-grader Terrence Cooper. Each of Edge's warnings is tinged with the memory of an empty locker or graveside service. His job too is not without risks. Last year three men opened the door of the school and leveled automatic weapons at him. "Hey, you," they hollered, paused for a moment, then left. Says Edge: "I never know...
...beef up security at Cabrini-Green, including the use of metal detectors, IDs for residents and secured entrances. Meanwhile, suspect Anthony Garrett, 33, told police that he shot Dantrell by mistake. Garrett said he was simply trying to take out a few rival gang members when the first-grader...
...remember having an aversion to 10,000 Maniacs when my brother first told me their name. With my sixth grader's imagination, I envisioned a screaming punk rock band whose songs my brother's booming stereo would force me to endure...