“Hell yeah, I’m in favor of it....
“Hell yeah, I’m in favor of it. But they need two ‘Hammers,’ 10 ‘Hammers’ . . . a whole toolbox.”
--Charles Brown, a longtime Watts resident, commenting on the program of sweeps and arrests by police on the crime-plagued streets of South-Central Los Angeles.
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