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Nervous Los Angeles
McWilliams, Carey | June 10, 1950 issue

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The article reports that the Los Angeles press has launched another of its lurid campaigns against juvenile "hoodlums," with special emphasis on Mexican American delinquents. These "crusades" are always started when there is a dearth of sensational local news and when racial tensions have predisposed people to hunt for scapegoats. In any given period a certain number of acts of juvenile hoodlumism will be committed in a city the size of Los Angeles. It is always possible, therefore, to make it appear that juvenile crime has shown a spectacular increase simply by beginning to feature reports of it.

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HOODLUMS; CRIMINALS; VICTIMS; CRIME; LOS Angeles (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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