Though heavily populated Puerto Rico has little gang warfare and few juvenile delinquents, the Puerto Rican in Manhattan seems, from the headlines, to be responsible for a frightening wave of gang killing, drug addiction and thievery. Dissenting from this impression, and in fact seeing hope in the Puerto Rican migration, is the Rev. Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, S.J., a Fordham University associate professor of sociology. Last week at a conference in Puerto Rico of the National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials,
Father Fitzpatrick put on the record his blunt views.
"New Yorkers had an old tradition, something like a tribal practice,...