Bettering Our Community No neighborhood is perfect there is always something that is able to be bettered. With our neighborhood, Floyd, we can do a better job of getting teens off the streets at night to help keep them out of trouble. Floyd has a drug problem and yet most try to hid it we can’t anymore. One way we can try and get teens off the streets and away from the thought of doing drugs is by having more police officers or setting a curfew and have officers enforce it. If Floyd doesn’t want to spend money on putting more officers on the streets they could always just close off the back alleyways where most of the drugs are dealt to help and reduce them. Floyd has tried to pretend and hid the fact that there are so many drug users and I didn't realize how bad everything was until this year when I got to the high school. About eighty percent of the upper classmen either are going to, are right now, or have used drugs since their eighth grade year. It shouldn’t be that way it should be less than ten percent if any at all. We need to start doing something about it before the upcoming high schoolers and the eighth graders this year get into those bad habits and keep up this chain that needs to be …show more content…
At this moment in time there are not many cops on the streets or even just driving around, you might see one every once a while in the mornings outside of the elementary schools and every school has a resource officer but that’s at school what about what happens after school or before? Only the teens that these things or are involved with them know everything. If we had more cops on the streets watching what kids are doing after school, in town, then they will most likely start noticing all the people that have been right in front of them destroying their community. We might be able to stop everything before it’s too late or before it gets
Imagine being able to get your hands on a gun in your community with ease when you were younger. Sounds cool right? Well, to some it might and that’s how young children are living in our communities now-a-days. Kids are able to get guns as long as they have parents with guns or the money to buy one. There aren’t enough restrictions on guns & who can get a hold of them on the streets and parents aren’t doing a well enough job of hiding their guns from their children. Something needs to be done. Too many children and young adults are being injured and murdered by something that is supposed to protect them. The ease in which youths are able to possess guns needs to be stopped. The harder it is for kids to get guns, the safer they’ll be.
There is absolutely no doubt that there is a serious and impactful problem at hand. This we unquestionably cannot turn our backs to. After all, none of us want our children growing up in a place where they are scared to go out and play in their own backyard because of rampant crime. It is essential to nip the growing crime in the butt before it gets any worse than it already is. The articles “Romanticizing ‘Broken Windows” by Charles M. Blow and “Broken Windows’ Policing Does Work” by Heather Mac Donald do not strive to achieve this goal. Instead, both play opposing roles in the “blame-game.” In these two articles, a proposition is made, but not explained. Any resolution mentioned in either piece is easy to miss, simply because of the amount of emphasis that is taken off the solution, and, instead, put to a cause. The question we should be asking ourselves and our communities is: How will we fix this problem? What will we do to make out communities safer, for our children? It does not matter if media, riots, or race has created such a growth in crime. What matters is resolving the problem. The solution is quite unpretentious, in order to reduce such high crime in our communities, we should increase outreach programs for first and repeat offenders of smaller crimes so they may get back on their feet and ditch their criminal pasts
The metropolitan community of Chattanooga, Tn is presently experiencing increasing gang activity. However, until recently the issue hasn’t been acknowledged as a community threat, but street gangs such as the Bloods and Crips have been a menace to Hamilton County, particularly the inner-city neighborhoods of Alton Park, Avondale, East Chattanooga, and Westside for years. Reports from Hamilton County Schools suggest that gang activity is spreading outside of these neighborhoods. The Chattanooga Police Departments failure to address the growing issue has allowed gangs to enter schools where now over seven-hundred students self-identify themselves as active gang members. Students acknowledge gangs are a “culture,” with the indication of fear and strong concerns about personal vulnerability. As a result of community officials neglecting the problem, residents have lost faith in the local law enforcement, in part to no improvements to these neighborhoods in the past decade. To date, there is no system wide initiative combating youth gang involvement in Chattanooga. Therefore, its essential careful consideration and planning are used when implementing the G.R.E.A.T. program into the Hamilton County Schools and community.
Maybe it’s the fact that I tend to stay in my room all weekend, which leads to people thinking I’m studying when in reality I am probably binge watching a TV show or maybe it’s my glasses, but most people who don’t know me too well assume that I am smart. Now that is a great thing for me because I don’t have to try as hard to impress them, but I end up finding myself in a bit of a problem. The problem is that everyone thinks I enjoy admiring school textbooks. But the truth is I’m usually admiring my Justin Bieber poster on my bedroom wall. Ever since I was in sixth grade I’ve been a huge fan of Bieber. His music always brought a feeling of calmness and back in the day his “never say never” motto, was what I lived by. I might still be living by that motto because I’ve decided to write this essay
Many studies have shown that adolescents residing in low income or high crime neighborhoods are more likely to get involved with deviant behavior or committing criminal acts. (Deutsch, 2012) There are several neighborhood factors that affect the crime rates of the neighborhood such as overcrowding, low economic status, the neighborhood’s reputation and its residential instability. These may create a disorganized community, leading to distrust and cynicism among residents in the community. As a result, there would be a higher rate of opportunities for crimes and delinquency. (Kurlychek, 2011) Thus high rates of crimes and violence are more likely to occur at these areas.
The battle my neighborhood in Brentwood faces is frightening, specifically for a minority society. Being that I come from various cities and states, I’ve noticed a shift from how a community comes together to support one another into a society that’s mainly about individualism. Accordingly, Brentwood has been known for their reputation of gang violence, drugs, and crimes including homicide. Just recently, four teenage boys were brutally manslaughter in the front and back of their vehicle by MS13 gang members. Prior to the incident, two young girls from Brentwood High School was murdered by the same gang. For this reason, a big issue we face in Brentwood is the security of us young kids and teenagers and safety of our beings.
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...
Within my fifteen and a half years of living, I have experienced many heart wrenching moments that have changed who I am, so many that I stopped trying to keep count long ago. Like most teenagers, the past couple of years have been some of the most confusing, hectic years of my life. I'm at that age I'm trying to figure out who I am, as well as who I want to become. As indecisive as I am, I will more than likely change my mind a time or two, but right now at this very moment, I've finally come to terms with who I really am, and what I would like to do for the rest of my life.
Summer vacation, and school ends for about three months, and then you have as much fun as you can, then back to school… right? Well I had to go to summer school, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Everything was going fine, I had a job after summer school, and that was going fine as well. They say that summer is supposed to be fun and exciting, and it usually is for me and my family. However in July my father started coughing up blood. My father usually doesn’t make it his top priority to go to the doctors, so he waited about four weeks until he really didn’t feel good.
The story about I Martranika Gross, called changing my life. It all begin with many ideals that I had in mind to become while changing my life so my daughter will fix in. First was continue my education at Strayer University and a journey to follow. Next, becoming a role model with a pathway lay out for my daughter, a showing her not to stay you can’t to become successful. Finally, overcome obstacles first you have to have faith within yourself, and the key word is knowledge.
The one person who has influenced my life the most is my dance teacher from middle school, Mrs Linden. Mrs Linden is the dance teacher at Sunnymead Middle School, and has taught there for many years. She was my dance teacher for all three years that I was there, as she inspired me alot. My life has changed for the better since I met her because she has taught me to fight for what I want and to not give up on something I love which is dance. She believed in me when many did not.
When discussing the sustainability of a community, we must consider the economic, social, and environmental well-being of the community and how these affect present and future residents. The social aspect of community sustainability relates to the rise and fall of crime rate, volunteer effort, and the number of people running for offices that represent the community. The economical aspect relates to the number of good paying jobs, the poverty rate, and the ability of people to find homes that they can afford. In the community of Dallas I grew up in, there was a problem with controlling the distribution and consumption of illegal drugs. Drugs in a community can affect the social and economic well-being of a community by increasing the crime rate and the poverty rate in a community. In order for the community to prosper and be able to sustain, present and future, we need more police involvement in the community. If more police became involved in the community, criminals participating in illegal activities would either be scared away or forced to change their habits. More police involvement in the community would also make residents more comfortable with their safety and the safety of their loved ones.
The key aspects to community policing involve having officers working in permanent neighborhoods, the involvement of citizens to identify problems and have potential solutions, and the reliance on agencies to help locate issues. The cornerstone of the program is the citizen interaction with the police. It is reported that communities that receive community policing funds have reduced levels of violent and property crimes, also has a greater number of arrests. Successful partnership helps with the reduction of gang and drug activities, area crime rate, and the improvement of the relationship between law enforcement and
We as a community and along with the government need to come up with a better solution to deter the youth from living a life of crime and try to save them from the streets before it is too late. To begin, the mayor should first focus on the increase in juvenile-related crimes, pinpointing the most extreme, to avoid the problems that those increases will create. Addressing the fact that there is a serious issue in the community will help everyone involved get a better understanding of the problem and how to solve it. Using community oriented policing, he can get officers out to listen and pay attention to the people in the communities. Each neighborhood is different and has different issues that cannot be solved with a snap shot solution.
...ctant and may create a chaos among the residents. So, the authorities should create a neighbourhood watch to watch over the residents at night. They also can set up a few small hut for the neighbourhood watch to rest. The neighbourhood should also be well-trained with basic combat skills and have healthy fitness of body. With all this aspect, may aid to reduce the crime rate in the residential area. As for the government, they can make a campaign to reduce the crime rate. The citizen can be taught to put on fast act by calling police whenever crimes happen around them. They can shout “Help ,help” or make a noise that may attract attention of other people. In this campaign also, they can be taught how to prevent the crime such as robbery, stealing, and snatching. By take action on this uprising crime, we may provide a peaceful place of the youth to grow healthily.