Zitat des Tages über Gruppengewalt / Gang Violence:
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.
We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.
I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence.
I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.
I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence.
From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.
You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.
What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it.
However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.