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To the Editor: In their thought-provoking article, Hutson et al. (Feb. 3 issue)¹ state that "perpetrators of drive-by shootings . . . tend to shoot others . . . within their own ethnic group." Nonetheless, in addition to "stressed families, poverty, lack of education, [and] unemployment," they list "racism" as one of "the root causes of gang violence." Accustomed to finding a logical relation between the data presented and the conclusions derived therefrom in papers published in the Journal, I am perplexed by the lack of logic in this instance.

I am heartened to see that a vexing problem, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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