Nation: Crime & Counterforce

THE CITIES

The day after Christmas, Tuesday, Dec. 26, was what police wearily call a "typical" day in U.S. cities—perhaps a cut too typical. In Nashville, Tenn., armed robbers held up two of the area's banks. In Chicago, one of the city's 50 aldermen was shot twice in the leg by thugs as he walked the South Side streets, and, just three miles away, another alderman barely escaped from robbers by locking himself inside his garage and screaming for help. New York

City registered four murders in the 24-hour period. And in Miami, Police...

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