In December 29, 2007, and unknown author put out an editorial piece in the opinion section of the Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-homicide29dec29,0,3053849.story?coll=la-opinion-leftrail) where he told all of the Los Angeles residents about how hapy we should be that the rates of violnce and gangs has gone down. As The Times show that the rate of violence has gone down, so has the gangs. The only problem is that they have gone nowhere. They all still exist, as now that Venice, Hollywood, and Echo Park prices have gone up, the gangs have begun to move out. Meaning that gangs are still running at lagre. The raise in price doesnt help with the elimination of gangs. "That doesn't mean the displaced gangsters have simply disappeared. Many have moved to places such as San Bernardino, where the murder count is up this year, or the Bay Area, or Fresno, or to other states." The editorial gives out a type of humorous fact that people of L.A are happy that violenve is leaving , but gives a thourough understanding that the elimination of complete violence and gangs wont be that simple.
-Can gangs really be pushed out of Los Angeles at this point in time where the youth consistently tries to find a place called "home"?
-What will happen now tp all the nice suburbs like Bakersfiel, Fresno, and other state? Will they get as much corrupted like Los Angeles was?
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damn i shud have put my font in green..o btw...funny article...yea i think gangs will always remain in la because some gangs are considered havens to people who cant find"home"...r u still in salvador?...im in big bear...freekin cold dude...
hi milti!!
first off, i dont think we can completely eliminate gangs from LA. we can somehopw reduce the number of gangs & gangmembers, but not completely.
i feel bad for the rich suburbial people.....HA! eat our dust!! jk
see ya next week!
very interesting argument. well violence whethere we like it or not will always be here whether it´s noticable or not, but the fact that it decreased in LA is good, but if not here of course it had move on somewhere else. I feel bad for the other cities, and populations that will now have to deal those sort of problems. Yet it will never end unless we, ourselves start changing things. Take for example Watts or Compton, start placing parks, or other type of get togethers where young people can go and be a part of something helpful to feel at ¨home¨. Because if not things won´t change which is how gangs, drugs, and violence will never finish.
Gangs will always be a constant in human life. It's origin goes way back in time and that kind of line isn't easy to break. So to say that gangs have simply disappeared is unreal.
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