Youth crime grows, as booze spreads and Babushka recedes
Mark Kasakevich, 19, a Soviet emigrant to the U.S., has a haunting recollection of his old life in Moscow. "It is amazing how cruelty to animals was so accepted," he says. "Boys, totally unprovoked, would kick dogs until they were half dead. You would see cats and dogs limping around with an ear cut off or stab wounds in the side."
Animals, sadly, are not the only targets of destructive youths, who account for about half of the nation's street crime, theft and burglary, and...
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