The Virginian-Pilot

THE LEDGER-STAR

: Sunday, October 15, 1995

• VIOLENCE IN PUBLIC HOUSING
• ELECTION '95: PUBLIC SAFETY WE POSED THESE QUESTIONS TO CANDIDATES IN THIS YEAR'S CONTESTED RACES: 1. SHOULD POLICY ON PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES STRESS PREVENTION OR PUNISHMENT, AND WHY? 2. CITE ONE THING THAT THE STATE SHOULD DO OR COULD DO TO MAKE CITIZENS FEEL SAFER.
• LIVING IN HARM'S WAY THROUGHOUT HAMPTON ROADS, A PATTERN OF VIOLENCE EMERGES IN MOST PUBLIC HOUSING: 72 PERCENT OF THE REGION'S PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS EAT AND SLEEP AND RAISE CHILDREN...IN 15 COMMUNITIES WITH VIOLENT CRIME RATES AT LEAST TWICE THE RATE OF THEIR SURROUNDING CITIES.
• CORRECTION/CLARIFICATION: ***************************************************************** The public housing community Diggs Town is in Norfolk, not Portsmouth, as stated in a headline Sunday. Correction published in The Virginian-Pilot, Tuesday October 17, 1995, p. A1 < ***************************************************************** DIGGS TOWN, PORTSMOUTH A PORCH HERE, A ROAD THERE HELPED CLEAN UP ONE PROJECT
• OAKLEAF FOREST, NORFOLK BACK THEN, IT WAS ONLY FISTFIGHTS
• NATIONALLY, AUTHORITIES OFTEN STUMBLE WHEN PROTECTING SAFETY
• ROXANNE AGAIN DEFIES FORECASTERS, HEADS EAST TOWARD YUCATAN
• CRIME WEIGHS HEAVY ON OUR MINDS
• YOUNG TERRACE, NORFOLK VIOLENCE OUTSIDE HIS DOOR HAS NOT REASON, NO WARNING