Talk Won't Stop A Predatory Gang Colbert I King. The Washington Post

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The ever growing gang issue is due to the initiating of younger kids everyday or called being jumped in. This article talks about how bad its really getting in Washington DC. and how the police and security at a school called " Friendship Charter School" no longer feel comfortable in keeping the students safe. It also talks about how the county is trying to make a new bus route and transportation routes to keep people from getting attacked and injured by the gangs. It states that most of the kids aka gang members are being arrested but are being let go within 2-3 days and right back on the street. There is an unbudgeted 20,000 dollars being used in running a shuttle for the people mainly the workers to get to these places of work.
I do not believe that it is going to be an affective choice to go with. Due to the fact that its not stopping any of the violence that is and will be happening. This is just an alternative way for the teachers and helpers to not be affected. The students who are being attacked everyday at these places and on the streets will still have to deal with it. Coming from the police chief and the other officers, that they do not feel comfortable in keeping the kids safe is the bigger issue. Making a new shuttle for everyone else is not saving the kids or helping them in anyway. It even states that there is a huge increase of unbudgeted money being used to do this. Now why wouldn't they use that money in a better way rather then just using it on a shuttle.
I feel that there could and should be better ways of protecting the children who are being affected by the gang members. Including the parental guidance that is needing for every child, thats where it should start. Kids who are being jumped into gangs everyday are getting younger and younger. They feel that they have no where else to go or no one else who will give and show them the support that they need in their lifes. This article makes me really angry, because the county is more worried about getting the helpers out of harms way but still leaving the kids in the hole. The hole as I call it is being stuck in the same spot as they are now. Not being protected by anyone and feeling that if they dont join a gang they will continue to be beat up and everything else. So lets worry more about the kids and the helpers, not just one of the other.