News Coverage- Part II

The shooting of a store clerk by two would-be robbers at Kipo's on Bucknam Street has been all over the print and news media, so you couldn't have missed the story if you tried. The clerk was shot in the leg, and by all accounts appears to be okay, all things considered. One of the two alleged robbers is a local boy, which makes this crime seem all the worse for the community. It's one thing to be able to say that crime is coming from Chelsea or Eastie...it's quite another when the criminals are home-grown.

So, what do we do next? How do we turn this around? What makes a young man from this community rob a local store at gunpoint? This is the kind of stuff that chases the middle class right into the suburbs....and when a city loses it's middle class - it loses everything. And it's not just Everett....nine teenagers in Falmouth were just picked up for running a drug ring.

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO17457/

Any ideas?