Gang Violence Prevention

Santa Ana, California located in the county of Orange and is home to approximately 334,227 people who have all once in their lifetime been a witness of the gang violence. Throughout the years street gangs criminal street gangs have become one of the most serious crime problems in California; consisting of assaults, drive- by shooting, homicides, and finally home invasion robberies. The main concern is having teens in the community exposed to such violent acts at such a young age encouraging them to follow the same steps of others that have given the example. In response, the threat that has been made has been jeopardizing the public safety. The measures proposed to be taken are education and prevention programs. In order to decrease the gang …show more content…
As previously mentioned, the people targeted to join gangs are youth boys that are barely entering into their teen years. This is also the number one problem because whatever they decide to do will determine how our future generation will be. However, there are ways in order to decrease gang violence and also to prevent gang involvement. The solution to combat these concerns would be prevention that can be done both at home and at school. Both of these factors will be able to address the cause and the effect of gang involvement. Preventions made at home would be having parents educate their children at an early age that joining a gang can certainly ruin lives, lead to criminal records and eventually lead them to be in prison. The causes would be addressed by simply providing parental guidance in order to avoid teens from withdrawing to any family involvement. This eventually would result in having teens feel part of the family and know they are loved and wanted, automatically eliminating the need for them to seek friendship or a place to feel welcomed somewhere else. Another way in which prevention programs can be made is in school by providing students with accurate information about alcohol and drugs, teach students decision making skills and layout the possible consequences of the behavior they decided to choose and finally build students self- esteems and teaching them to resist peer pressure. All these goals have been established by the drug abuse prevention program what is known as “DARE”; enforcing programs such as these certainly result in a decrease in gang involvement. However, it also addressed the changes of the effects of gang involvement which are: dropping out of school, struggling with employment, and abusing drugs. The factor that will change the effects will