Yet most of Disney's marketing effort appealed to a desire for escape from the trials of modern urban living: crime, troubled schools and broken-down communities.
Oakland has rampant crime, troubled schools, dysfunctional city government — and a mayor's office that is a magnet for high-profile politicians.
But even middle-class black and Hispanic children who are burdened with issues of crime, troubled homes and poor schools have not been able to close the test-score gap with their white counterparts.
More broadly, criminologists have cited the bleak economic picture in much of upstate and western New York as a main factor in the region's crime troubles, which have affected Lockport, Niagara Falls and other parts of Niagara County, among other places.
And nearly half the callers say they have used the phones to report crime, car trouble, drunk drivers or medical emergencies.
Many of the program's roughly 30 participants — boys, mostly, with absentee fathers, a history of crime, academic trouble and poverty — come with a ready supply of anger and fists that can fly.
Robinson had explained to me earlier that while Norris Green and Croxteth are no longer considered hotspots for gun crime, the trouble has been displaced to even more deprived neighbourhoods, such as those in Bootle, Kirkby and Fazakerley.
This river baby is only one in a long line of murky crimes to trouble Aarhus.
Today, they work to prevent the sorts of crimes that trouble all societies.
The plan for commissioners rests on the premise that the crimes that trouble ordinary Britons the most are not taken seriously enough by elites, including police chiefs.
