Michael Doody remembers some things about his Columbus, Ohio neighborhood in the 1990s:
“Gunshots, helicopters, thefts, smashed out windows, burglaries, robberies, assaults and murders.”
In addition to the crime, roughly 50 percent of the children were living in poverty in this area, known as Southern Orchards.
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