To entertain, since this passage is entirely fictional and is not trying to convince you to do something or educate you.
Answer:
"Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand them and wouldn't be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore." (Hinton, 179)
Explanation:
1. eerie
2. virtually
3. footage
4. assassinated
5. debris
6. screech
7. assignment
8. evidence
9. scratch
10. launched
Drug abuse: increasing awareness on negative effects of drug abuse, and also ignorance.
Joblessness: Government poor policies, and retrenchments that leave many jobless.
Poor parenting: Young adults brought up in broken homes, and young adults from orphanages.
New York is the answer i think.