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Odds are that you have street gangs in your community. Gangs are no longer confined to the large urban communities. They are now found in many of the smallest of towns across America and are no longer just low income, poorly educated, dropouts from society. Gang members are now found to be a mixture of ALL races, cultures and ethnicities. No longer do the members come from a one parent family who is never available to show love and guidance to the child. Our youth of today are sometimes joining gangs even though they live with both parents who are in the middle income or even the upper income segments of society.Too often the phrase, “We don’t have gangs in our community” is uttered by the city fathers, the police, the chamber of commerce or the tourist bureau. This is often followed by, “All we have are a bunch of wannabes.” The inference here is that since the gangs in the community didn’t originate in Los Angeles or Chicago, they aren’t real gangs. Nothing could be further from the truth. If a group of youths in your community have banned together and call themselves by a particular name; if they use signs, symbols and or colors; and if they are committing crimes; they are a gang – regardless of what members of the community say.It is easy to understand why any community, large or small, might deny the existence of gangs within the community no community wants the stigma of having gangs. However, by denying the existence of gang activity, the community is doing the gangs a favor they are allowing the gangs to develop, grow stronger in numbers and develop a power base.

 

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