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This 4-page paper, using Davis "The City of Quartz" as a jumping-off point, suggests that reasons for urban unrest can be traced to unemployment, poor schools and other social issues. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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urban unrest in Los Angeles can be traced directly to unemployment, lack of good education and other similar "social problems." He goes on to say that solving these problems -
less crime and better schools, for two - would end up lowering the crime rate drastically. While there are a variety
of reasons for urban unrest and high crime, Davis does make a compelling argument thats supported in some of the literature out there. Very compelling arguments to support Davis contention
are, in fact, made, in a report issued by the California Legislature Assembly Special Committee following what was termed the "Los Angeles Crisis."
April 29, 1992 started a three-day "reign of terror" in and around the City of Los Angeles that left more than 50 dead, hundreds injured and $750 million in
property damage (Tucker, 1993). The incident itself occurred, on the surface, because of one thing: the acquittal of police officers who had been accused of beating Rodney King, a black
man, in 1991 (Tucker, 1993). Though most of the area had been damaged as a result of the event, the committee pointed out the sad fact that it had been
South Central L.A. that had been the hardest hit (Tucker, 1993). They also indicated that this area had had other problems stemming from it; problems that were similar in scope
to those that ultimately sparked the Watts Riots during the 1960s (Tucker, 1993). The McCone Commission (which had been formed in the wake of Watts) and the Kerner Commission (which
had been also formed during the late 1960s), were unanimous in agreeing that the underpinnings of urban unrest included "poverty, segregation, lack of educational and employment opportunities, widespread perceptions of
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