Effects of Youth CrimeA kid walks down the crowded hallway at school.
He is late to his classso he is going as fast as he can. In his hurry, he accidentally bumps intoanother kid. The other kid backs off and starts yelling at the first one. Heasks why he bumped into him, and was he trying to start something? The firstkid hastily apologizes as he turns and starts to race down the hall toward histhird period class.
The second kid takes this the wrong way and pulls out ahandgun, the crowd around him quickly disperses as they see the gun. He aimshis gun at the first kid and says take this you punk! He quickly pulls thetrigger several times, the bullets tearing through the first’s body. He fallsto the ground, dead. Things like this happen every day.
Kids hurting otherkids, it’s not something that should be happening. Because of things like this,there are many rules and regulations at schools and other places that therewasn’t before. Youth violence happens every day and it is tearing society apart. A lot of crimes now days are committed by kids, people under the age of21.
They do all sorts of crime, they murder one another, they steal things,they paint graffiti on the wall. Crime is worse than it ever has been. It usedto be the mob that people were scared of, now it’s the gangs. If you cross amember of a gang, you can bet that his friends will get you back for him. Gangwars are especially dangerous, it starts with just two people, one from one gangand one from another gang.
One of them does something to the other, like stabhim, and then the victim’s friends will get the attacker. It continues toescalate until it is all out war. Stopping gang wars is just one small step tostopping youth violence. Gangs are not the only youth’s who commit crime. There are tons of kidswho steal from stores, do and sell drugs, vandalize buildings and a lot of otherthings as well. These kids are just as large of a problem as the gang membersare.
Some kids think that stealing a candy bar here, a pair of jeans there, istotally harmless. They think that they aren’t stealing that much, so it doesn’treally matter. Or some kids think that they are beautifying the city bypainting on the sides of buildings. Both are wrong, what they are doing is acrime. They shouldn’t be doing it, and have got to stop.
A lot of kidscomplain that they have no freedom, or that there are to many rules andrestrictions at school or in society. The reason that there are so many rulesand restrictions is because of all the youth crime there is. If kids wouldlearn to stop stealing, doing drugs, being in gangs and all of the other crimesthey do, a lot of the rules and restrictions would be lifted and they would havemore freedom. At school, kids are not allowed to wear hats or bandannas. They cannotwear these because they are gang related. Many gangs have formed, most havetheir own special colors, almost like school colors.
They were their gangcolors with pride as school kids wear their school colors with pride. When onegroup of kids from one gang, sees another group of kids from another gang,fighting can occur. Sometimes the fighting can lead to more serious stuff likestabbings, shootings, and murders. Because of youth violence, there are manyrestrictions at school. A kid walks down the crowded hallway at school.
He is late to his classso he is going as fast as he can. In his hurry, he accidentally bumps intoanother kid. The second kid backs off and says that he is sorry. The first oneapologizes in turn and they both turn away from each other without another word. What could have been a disaster was diverted, with a little common courtesy aconflict was resolved. This is how it could be, should be.
Everyone shouldtreat each other with respect. Gangs have got to stop, and kids have to stopcommitting crimes, no matter how insignificant they might think they are. Onlywhen this has happened will youth violence stop.History
