| I agree that uniforms are a blanket to cover the main problem, which is the juvenile gangs altogether. Perhaps a better solution would be to attack the problem where it begins. A question that is asked over and over is, where are the parents in all this? I mean, a 12 year old out in the middle of the night and no one knows where he/she is? Positive role models start with the family. It's the ones that don't have any positive influences in their life that turn to the lure of some jacka@@ promising them "love" if they join a gang with the underlying condition they commit criminal acts. There is a reason why gang leaders are searching out the middle school aged children, its because the older ones that get a little older and finally get a clue that the whole gang mentality is stupid finally quit. Heck if my daughter was approached by some twenty something gang member wanting to hang out with a bunch of preteens, I would simply point out "hey, now that guy is a freakin loser!"
For the gang members thinking they are all hard core gangsters, they could possibly do an internship somewhere like....South Central Los Angeles or Compton. With all this graffiti around showing 18th street or whatever, how many gang kids from Dodge actually know what city 18th street is from, let alone actually been there?  |