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Chicago fights rise in teen murders

Crane High School students Corey Woods and Brittney Waters comfort each other outside the school during a memorial Monday, March 10, 2008, for student Ruben Ivy, 18, who was killed outside the Chicago school March 7. Violence involving students in the nation's third-largest school district has increased so dramatically in the last two years that the Chicago Police Department is increasing school patrols and soon will be the first department in the country with live access to thousands of security cameras mounted outside _ and inside _ schools. From September through March, 20 Chicago Public Schools students have been killed, 18 by gunfire. The use of police to escort students to and from Crane Tech High School this week, dubbed “Operation Safe Passage” is just one of the ways Chicago is dealing with a wave of violence that has stunned the city.

Via: MSNBC.com: Crime & courts

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