Source: The Media Awareness Project The correct source information is: "Technology Reduces Drug Dealers' Street Presence" Source: San Jose Mercury News Contact: http://www.sjmercury.com - ------------------------------------------------------- >Source: Los Angeles Times >Contact: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 >Author: Bonnie Hayes of the LATimes >Editor Note: This was published 29 January 1998 in the LATimes under the >title "Unlikely Freedom From Fear" > >TECHNOLOGY REDUCES DRUG DEALERS' STREET PRESENCE > >Communities find relief as pushers do business with pagers, cell phones > >ANAHEIM -- About a mile from Disneyland, on a narrow street with pitted >patches of dirt where sidewalks should be, a barefoot girl in a pink sweat >suit skips rope. She counts aloud in Spanish as a group of laughing >children dash around her. > >Rosario Zamora, 43, smiles at them from her doorway. These are her children >and those of her neighbors, but this is not the same Dakota Street she has >known for 20 years. There are no empty shell casings, no splatters of fresh >blood. She cannot recall the last time the children found tiny bundles of >crack cocaine on their way home from school. >