The Gang Causes Of Gangs In The Community

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The issue that I will address is the gang problems this community has. I believe this is the biggest problem my community is facing. You mostly see gangsters in every part of the community. Since there's so many different group of gangs in new city fighting for territory, there is violence every where you go. Some of the gangs that are present were I live are the Two Six, Saints, Razas,and SDs. There is always beef between the Two Six and Saints may be because 47th St separates them and they could just go into each others territory and start a gang war at any time of day. All you see them in the middle of the streets with binoculars just watching what the other gangs activity. Many people say there sick of this but they still greet the gangsters and tell them how are you today and all those things. Some of my family members have been in between these gang shootings and never gotten shot, but some day one of us will be shot. Not just my family has been in gang shootings, other families too and sadly someone they know get injured or killed by accident because he was in the way.The problem is the gangs because they are making the community residents scared that every time they step outside something bad is going to happen. Well they developed in the 1880's in Bridgeport and Back of the Yards. They were mostly large Irish gangs, they terrorized the streets by raiding peddlers, robing men that came out of work, they also fought against them selves, they terrorizing German, Polish, and Jewish immigrants that came and settled in the area between 1870's- 1890's. Even though they fought between each other, they united to make a gang called "Mickies" to fight the black gangs in the east. Then later on other gangs started to show up like Po... ... middle of paper ... ... member or has served in prison so they could change their lives by turning away from crime, they also get training to detect problems before they happen like shootings. This solution would help my community's problem because cure violence has reduced shootings and killings by -41% to -73%. Also they saw a 100% homicide reduction in 5 out of 8 communities. This is some big improvements that are going on other communities. One of the communities was Englewood and it saw a -40% reduction is shooting density. If this solution is not implemented in my community nothing will change you will still see crime and deaths. There are already 110 homicides so far in the New City community. That's a lot and you will keep seeing these numbers if they don't put a plan into action to stop the gangs. They need to start to interact with the people who are high risk to joining a gang.

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