The Cross and the Switchblade

What is a summary of the book, Chapter 6?

He was in new york

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Chapter 6 - At the beginning of this chapter, the author contacts the mother of one of the members of the Dragon Gang, who reveals that she and her family are receiving threats of death and violence and have made the decision to move the boy out of the city into safety. The rest of the chapter is taken up with the narration of the author's weekly visits exploring New York, and his realizations as the result of his explorations - that the street gangs are all acting out of a sense of deep loneliness and feeling unloved. He describes his belief that all their activities - the violence, the illicit sex, the drug dealing - all originate from that source, and describes his sudden, prayer-inspired flash of insight that if they had a friendly, loving, non-judgmental place to go, they could do what really needed to be done ... start life over. At the end of the chapter, he imagines such a place in detail, but realizes it would take "a series of miracles such as [he's] never seen to bring it into being.

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