Casey Seppelt
ENG 1020
11/10/16
I lived in Montbello, also referred as “Montghetto” my whole life. Montbello has always been know as the ghetto. I thought as I grew up the crime will decrease due to better technology and better police enforcement. But it’s been the total opposite, Montbello’s crime has increased rapidly. Gun shots every night, gangs, drugs in visible sight. The crime in Montbello is becoming so serious that it's affecting the kid’s childhood. My parents rarely let my siblings go outside to play because they don’t want them exposed to crime. We need to come together as a community, and bring awareness because the violence/crime rate is increasing astonishingly in Montbello. We need to improve the technology, police …show more content…
As you enter Montbello you see fences that are half way up, sidewalks that look dangerous to walk on, parks where kids go out to play filled up with graffiti and gangs, broken windows to cars and houses. I can keep going on forever on how deteriorated the community looks. Beat down communities are more likely to have a higher crime rate. In the article Kelling and Wilson suggested “that a broken window or other visible signs of disorder or decay — think loitering, graffiti, prostitution or drug use — can send the signal that a neighborhood is uncared for ” (Shankar Vedantam). Shankar did a study on this, by putting a car with a broken window in a nice, and a ghetto community. Both of the cars ended up getting striped down for parts. It doesn't matter about the people in the community. If a valuable item is exposed it will be broken into.“Communities get strengthened once order is restored or maintained, and it is that dynamic that helps prevent crime”. We need to come together as a community and start cleaning up the streets! It will strengthen the community and put a decrease on the crime rate, because people usually won't commit a crime in a nice looking neighborhood but once they see a broken down community they feel like crime is everywhere and it will be difficult for the police to find out because it happens so
ENG 1020
11/10/16
I lived in Montbello, also referred as “Montghetto” my whole life. Montbello has always been know as the ghetto. I thought as I grew up the crime will decrease due to better technology and better police enforcement. But it’s been the total opposite, Montbello’s crime has increased rapidly. Gun shots every night, gangs, drugs in visible sight. The crime in Montbello is becoming so serious that it's affecting the kid’s childhood. My parents rarely let my siblings go outside to play because they don’t want them exposed to crime. We need to come together as a community, and bring awareness because the violence/crime rate is increasing astonishingly in Montbello. We need to improve the technology, police …show more content…
As you enter Montbello you see fences that are half way up, sidewalks that look dangerous to walk on, parks where kids go out to play filled up with graffiti and gangs, broken windows to cars and houses. I can keep going on forever on how deteriorated the community looks. Beat down communities are more likely to have a higher crime rate. In the article Kelling and Wilson suggested “that a broken window or other visible signs of disorder or decay — think loitering, graffiti, prostitution or drug use — can send the signal that a neighborhood is uncared for ” (Shankar Vedantam). Shankar did a study on this, by putting a car with a broken window in a nice, and a ghetto community. Both of the cars ended up getting striped down for parts. It doesn't matter about the people in the community. If a valuable item is exposed it will be broken into.“Communities get strengthened once order is restored or maintained, and it is that dynamic that helps prevent crime”. We need to come together as a community and start cleaning up the streets! It will strengthen the community and put a decrease on the crime rate, because people usually won't commit a crime in a nice looking neighborhood but once they see a broken down community they feel like crime is everywhere and it will be difficult for the police to find out because it happens so