How To Reduce Gang Violence?

After reviewing all the things we have learned throughout the class I view chapter 9 as having excellent infromation and insight as to the best and most effective ways to hurt the growth of street gangs. The reason being is because while we have learned a lot about how to stop or prevent street gangs, they also add in that element of suppression as well as treatment. These are 2 key terms that I really enjoyed learning about. I never really thought about supression because my immediate desire invilving a street gang was to end it all together. This in reality is unrealistac and unettanable. I really liked how the book describes one proactive strategy of suppression as "Confronting gang members in both friendly and unfruendly manners". This isn't just how you treat gang members, it is how you treat different people in everyday life. Some respond to positve feedback and some respond to negative. …show more content…
Some of the ones I see as being most useful would be the community prevention strategies as well as one section in particualar titled "It takes an entire community: families. schools, law enforcement and local business". The reason that specific section resignated with me so much was because it is such an accurare statement. Without the support of everyone in the community, the local businesses, schools and law enforcement, gangs will run that neighborhood. Just like it takes a village to raise a child, it really does take a while village to stop