Cities Wrestle With How To Deal With Surge Of Sometimes Violent ‘Teen Takeovers’
The scene unfolding outside his patrol car at 1:30 a.m. on July 5 startled the Raleigh, N.C., police chief. “It was chaotic,” said Chief Rico Boyce, “Something I had never seen in my 26 years here.”…
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