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Originally Posted by hoarsewhisperer  What’s it going to TAKE?
On my way to work this morning, more graffiti....again. It sickens me that these kids don’t have something worthwhile to pour all that negative, angry energy in to. So, always the brainstormer...what if someone stepped up to the plate and took the lead into solving this? Police? Some enigmatic outside person who will take on Dodge City’s ever growing problem of Gangs and Gang activity.
Let’s brainstorm! Not bash or be negative. Approach it with possibilities that could actually HELP.
Here is mine.
I say the City (yes, I said the City) fund a symposium that will invite these so called enigmatic speakers who hold a vast knowledge of Gangs and their psychological makeups .....invite the Gangs, speak to their hidden courage about joining together to do something with all that angst. Something that will make their parents and families proud. Something that will possibly break the cycle handed down to their brothers... A Social Call or appeal, if you will, to their honor....Let’s invite them to take all that bravado and Join the Service. If they are underage, let’s have them also be recruited to join early! More time to prepare themselves for their future and their country’s future. Why not give them A Future?
I know I’m babbling, but was just thinking. Anymore thinkers out there—> ??? |
You don't need enigmatic speakers and a symposium that spends tax payers money. There are LOTS of activities to do in Dodge that good kids participate in. (Sports, theatre, college course..etc) The problem is no matter what how you profile most of these kids between their home life, what they have been taught values wise and the fact that most of them don't care about much....gang activity will not stop until you get tough on them. You will have less crime when the penalty is harsher than the risk of doing the crime. Imagine if we rounded... YEAH, I said ROUNDED UP...known gang bangers and had THEM out there in their colors scrubbing the graffiti off themselves..HOW bad would they think they were then. I would even pitch in for some of the material for them to do it. Work them from sun up to sun down, rain or shine. I know this would fire up Wordy and the ACLU but drastic times call for drastic measures. Your "social call" no offense....with gangs is like the Liberals wanting to sit down and have coffee and appease that idiot from Iran. Personally if any of my tax $ are going to be wasted on gangs I want it to be getting them off the streets...not having a symposium.