Argumentative Essay On Gang Violence

There is no easy solution to any of it. Aggressive sentencing has not deterred anyone from doing it or slowed the growth of street gangs. As others have said, if you grow up in a poor area of town the amount of money you can make from selling drugs or being a part of that gang is attractive. The real question is whether the government wants to pump more money into the problem now in hopes of fixing it or continue feeding it into the prison system to keep people that are convicted behind bars. An aggressive increase in the amount of officers assigned to anti-gang and drug units is a start. Those people often know a lot of the people involved in gang activity. It works a lot better when gang members know the cops first hand when dealing with
The only time they truly care is when it spills over into "their world."

I think the only way to truly get rid of gang violence (if it is actually possible) is for people to start caring about these places and actively get involved with helping them get their lives together. They need financial and educational assistance to find a way out of their rut.

Gangs will never go away. You can enhance the sentence for minors but that wont work. Being locked up in some major gangs is a privilege, cause there with all their other fellow members and create a gang in the system. Gangs have more control on the outside when their locked up. Why does this cycle keep continuing? Its the parents/guardians fault. They show their children the gang life and the child basically gets raised "in the gang life". Authorities have tried and tried to break this viscous cycle but it just seems unaffected. Maybe if they would create a more "harsher" prison system, that might make gangs think twice about committing a crime. Some people are scared to go to prison because of the people there, not the prison itself, and that's the major issue. Take away the TVs, weight rooms, libraries, recreation areas, anything that's a luxury in the prison system. Some might disagree with this, they might say "some criminals want to change, that's why they have those options". In some cases that's true but the majority of it is not. If someone commits a crime no matter what the degree is they shall receive a punishment. Make them learn from that and have them say to myself, i never want to go back there. Increase the severity of the punishment and prison system that should make ANY criminal gang member or not think twice before committing any type of