Remember last year when the Mayor of Charlotte, Pat McCrory, led a caravan of local officials, police chiefs and citizens to Raleigh to bring attention to escalating crime problems in North Carolina’s metro areas including gangs? I guess he knew what he was talking about.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system released a report on Tuesday detailing the gang problem in the Queen City’s schools. They found 70 different gangs in Charlotte’s schools. The good news is that the report tells us that most of them aren’t the hard corps killing type of gangs, yet.
Recent efforts by the legislature have been criticized as being too little, too late. Without enough law enforcement attention, gangs aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
i just wanted to say that alot of my friends are in gangs and ii realli think that people look at them wrong. Alot of my friends turn to a gang becuase how hard it is these days to fit in and , to be honest their family isnt always there. They feel as if the gang and its members gives them something worth fighting for and that the people really care about them. It’s alot more than just violence and stuff. And no its not a good way of life but people shouldnt AlWAYZ fault them for it … instead they should be trying to help.
There are plenty of groups to belong to and have a good time WITHOUT criminal behavior. A social group that includes criminal acts in its list of things to do today has no place in civilized society.
Schools have, unfortunately, become very concerned with everything but educating our children.