Newhallville Alderman Charles Blango (pictured at center right) sees the effect of his neighborhood police firing range on schoolkids every day. "I live in the neighborhood, I work in the school system, and I can tell you it becomes the norm," he said at a City Hall meeting concerning the police firing range on Sherman Parkway, which the department wants to rebuild in its current location. "I've always been a friend of the police department, but you watch how the kids' behavior shifts" -- when they play-shoot each other in the halls -- "and it just becomes a way of life."
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