The problem starts with the parents not paying attention to what their children
are doing.
Kids involved with gangs wear things to identify themselves, and they hang out
with other
gang members. I think change needs to start with the parents taking control of
their
childrens lives.
Case in point, my next door neighbors. I've written about this before, but it
bears
repeating.
The husband and wife engage in loud arguments at least a few evenings a week,
so they
are too preoccupied with their troubles to notice that one of their sons, an 8
year old, is an
accomplished bicycle thief, who comes home every other day with a new bike and
spray
paints it in his back yard. The other son, a teenager hangs out with drug
dealers and other
thugs, and every once in awhile it appears that they are making deals right on
their porch.
So...the parents are too busy fighting to notice, and the kids aren't being
disciplined for
their behaviour for the same reason. Nobody is telling them that what they are
doing is
wrong.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Allan Peterson <nnjallans1@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Keady want to use money for recreation. I say use it for COPS.
> On app.com:
> >
> > "Our taxpayer dollars provide enough for kids to do,'' Kisha
> Chambers said. She
> > wants the community and parents to get involved, take care of the
> children and be responsible for them.
> >
> I am not going to argue with you, however, remember what I said
> about an occupying force. Some attention has to be paid to the
> underlying problem. It is my feeling that if not drug-related, the
> shootings have something to do with gangs. The young need an
> alternative to both. I know, perhaps we did not have such
> alternatives and the direction should come from the home. Well in
> many cases it does not and everybody is affected by the outcome.
> Recreation will not stop it in the short term. We need boots on the
> ground, but we also have to look at long-term solutions. In the end,
> it will never change unless residents take responsibility and take
> back the streets. Whatever it takes.
>
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