ethnic minority neighborhoods is recognized first and foremost by the great majority of the residents of these neighborhoods.

Law breaking is common in America's ethnic and racial minority neighborhoods. Much of this law breaking activity is associated with drug dealing and drug use. Much of this law breaking is also associated with gang activity. Further, there is a great deal of interrelationship between drug and gang activities. The increasing strength of the drug dealers and gangs has made it more and more difficult for the ordinary citizens of these neighborhoods to control or even influence their neighborhood environments.

Law enforcement, as it is practiced in America's central city ghettos, largely follows the dictum of the antiaircraft artillery in the Second World War"shoot 'um all down, and we'll sort out friends from foes on the ground." In this vein, metropolitan police forces tend to treat all residents of central city ghetto neighborhoodsparticularly young residentsas if they are either drug dealers or gang membersor both! As a consequence, the metropolitan police tend to run roughshod over the constitutional rights of the residents of central city ghetto neighborhoods. The attitude of the metropolitan police seem to be that the price of trampling on the constitutional ri

highly effective, however, in denying constitutional rights to the ordinary residents of these neighborhoods.

The situation that has developed in America's central city ghetto neighborhoods is one that spawns poverty and herds people into the welfare systema system that itself is selfperpetuating. The "Weed and Seed" Program developed by the federal government is supposed to remedy many of the problems faced by the nation's central city ghetto neighborhoods.

The "weed" aspect of the program is supposed to develop policies and actions that will enable the metropolitan police and civic leaders to rid the racial and ethnic minority neighborhoods in America's central cities of drug dealers, drug users, and gang members, and, supposedly, all other criminal elements that habituate these neighborhoods. The "seed" component of the program is intended to provide financial and managerial assistance to the residents of the central city ghetto neighborhoods to enable these residents to start businesses within the neighborhoods, to buy homes within the neighborhoods, to develop programs to train the residents of the neighborhoods for useful and well paying employment, to provide recreational facilities for the residentsparticularly the youngof the neighborhoods, to provide counseling services and assistance for residents of the neighborhood who want to tu