NYTimes - In Places Like North St. Louis, Gunfire Still Rules the Night

By JOHN ELIGON via NYT U.S. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/us/in-neighborhoods-like-north-st-louis-gunfire-still-rules-the-night.html Residents of areas like North St. Louis, where drugs, poverty and gunfire beget a cycle of violence, scoff when they hear officials declare that their cities are safer.