Essay On Gang Problem

Many people often ask “Can the gang problem be solved in America?” This is very hard to answer considering the hundreds and thousands of known gangs in America. Teens today even start their own gangs that aren’t even publicly known of. More gangs are created every day and it truly is scary. All 50 states have reported gang problems. The youth join gangs because they have no one else to be a inspiration in their life. It really isn’t good that they have to look up to someone who kills and sells drugs for a living, but sadly this is all they have left. The country would like to try to prevent this by making communities more safe, stricter schooling, and also making families stronger in bad communities. You would be surprised to know that even …show more content…
This is known as the school to jail line. In this line students are known to do many illegal things because they rebelled all through school. This causes them to rebel in real life. They never learn to be responsible because they usually do not have a family who cares enough to make sure that they grow up and do something good with their life. Students need to learn more about gangs in school. By teaching student s about gangs they will be more aware of how scary it can be and the consequences. Most of the time when a student sees how gang members live their life it changes their view. The real answer to this question is that gangs will never really stop. There will always be a small group of people killing others. There are clubs and groups to help the gang members get their lives back together, but they are costing too much money and not turning out to work too well. There are many juvenile schools that these teens can go to and some of the students do come out successful. Even though some grow up to be a gang leader, doesn’t mean that gangs can be reduced in America. I think that if we work as a country really hard to reduce crimes and violence gangs will be