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To: Wayners who wrote (27101)	5/30/2004 11:22:48 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Wayne do you agree with "Where there is opportunity, jobs, education, family and community...there are no gangs"?

To: Wayners who wrote (27101)	5/31/2004 2:02:00 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Gangs are usually in the inner city. Opportunity is not always available in the poorest of areas. They have schools, but the schools are usually poor and they share in the problems of the breakdown of family and community. Many times the family is broken, and we're talking single parent, and often no parent. That's where the gang steps up and provides the family. They couldn't do that if there was community, family, jobs, opportunity...and hope. Poor rural is different. Usually there is the opportunity to do some farming, and grow your own food too. There's jobs, family, community, opportunity...and plenty of hope. There's no gangs around either. Usually because there are no customers for the drugs. Which brings us to the question of...who are the drug customers? Well they have to be people with money...who have jobs...and cars...so they can drive down to the inner city and score...usually rich white folks are the customers. A dealer can make some money selling drugs in the inner city, but few make $100,000 a year doing it. There's a few kingpins on the top of the chain that do well...but the gangbanger hustling the corner is going to have to sell a lot of drugs to make that kind of money. It's not about the money. It's about perceptions. These young kids don't have family or community to support them, so they adopt the gang to fill that void. How would you break the cycle? Orca