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Part One: The Cash for Kids Scandal

Behind the Bastards

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Delilio's Predictions About Juvenile Crime

"It's not going to get less frustrating. See this, it's like all these times when we say like, like fast forward to Tamir Rice, when you're treating this 14 year old, like a goddamn adult," he says. "I'm sorry. I'm so triggered right now. This was, you totally picked the right thing." 'You gave people an excuse to be scared and do violence,' Delilio writes in one of his most infamous articles. But by 2011, juvenile homicides had plunged by two thirds.

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