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were crack
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A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
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Nearby, there were crack houses, and the struggling neighborhood offered the men little else.
The irony, of course, is that the people they were portraying were crack solvers to a man and a woman.
Not in Hollywood, we may note, but on Hollywood, as if the place were crack, or heat, or fire.
"They were crack addicts back then and they're not now and, really, it's as simple as that," she said.
"There were crack dealers helping us, gang leaders looking for him, strangers e-mailing me asking how they could help," she said.
Operation Hammer, already under fire from civil libertarians, was thoroughly discredited in 1988 when its officers destroyed four apartment buildings they mistakenly thought were crack houses.
But today's shootings, often among men who were "crack babies", are more likely, says Mr Levin, to happen for "respect .Respect killings defy reason.
"I fell in love with the house," Ms. Gourley said, although the front was covered with graffiti, the previous occupants were crack addicts and the house had been chopped up into four apartments.
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