Pros And Cons Of Jump In Or Get Out

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Hung Ngo
4/9/2014
English 1301

Jump in or get out?

In the last couple decades, crimes has been increased rapidly all across United States. Street gang’s activity and violence are becoming and growing problem in our society. Many organizations have an effort to keep street gangs off the street but street gang has found their way into our schools and our neighbors. People are joining gangs every day. They join gangs for many different reasons, but the main reason is because of their reputation, their needs, protection and attention from other people (Gang Program Alternatives). Most of them are come from urban area where poverty and poor families present. Sometime gang recruiters start looking and recruit members in school, and teens are becomes their target. The gang recruiters understand why they like to chose young teens to be in their gang. They know teenagers are easy to fall for all the temptation of drugs, fame, money and being a cool person. After a short period join in the gang, these kids starting to see money is easy to make and they can use these money to help their struggling families and love ones, but they do not realize that they will end up being forced to commit all type of crimes, and they might caught up in a middle of violent activities if they still staying in the gang. Join in a gang is seem very easy, but what about leaving? Unfortunately some people want to get out but they cannot get out, because their gang leaders indicated that once you jumped in therefore you cannot leave, but if you do leave then there are some tragedies are waiting for you. Sometime you eventually get killed for living. But if you stay, you end up addicted to drugs, locked up in prison or even dead. There will always be violence and ...

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...ng is bad and you do not know what will happen to your life. You could get shot, lock up in prison, addict to drugs or your love ones get killed. Your life will be wasted and your family will miss you. You have your own destiny and you have your chance to become whoever you want to be, so take your chance and focus in school. Work hard and if you need help, do not hesitate to reach out and ask for help. There are many organizations in America ready to help you to change your life around. Based on this, there will always be violence and crime in our society, but think twice when you want to jump in a gang.

Works Cited

Gang Alternatives Program (GAP). (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.gangfree.org/gangs_why.html.
Martinez, J. (2014, 04 01). "Loco". (H. Ngo, Interviewer)
Rios, V. (2013). Gang Member-Turned-Ph.D. Mentors Youth on the Fringes. (G. Ifill, Interviewer)

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