There does seem to be a pattern there!
Throwing money at the problem solves nothing -- maybe time for parents to take some responsibility for raising such thugs and do something about cleaning up their own neighborhoods!
You said the R-word. How insensitive of you!
The parents of these gang members? Many of the gang members are well into their 40's and have grandchildren. Many are working for the drug cartels of Mexico.
Oh darn, I am late on another handout!!! My 2 kids are grown up now, and to think, I might have been able to get a Federal Grant that would have paid to keep track of them and raise them....heck, I wouldn't have had to spend all that darn time being a Dad.
I was forced to raise my kids instead of simply watching them grow into big people.......those others have all the luck!!
A lot of these cretins are just following in the law-breaking footprints of their parents. Family values, don'tcha know.
Right on, Mom! You notice the article keeps mentioning "funds" and how the lack thereof is the cause of the problem.
Random thoughts:
1. Broken families - were these thugs raised with a mother and a father, both of whom were responsible and sober human beings?
I thought not.
2. Drugs - libertarians are wrong. Drugs ruin individuals, neighborhoods, communities. The lure of easy money means these thug/kids will have zero incentive to learn, study, and try to work a normal job. Plus drug addicts lose their humanity.
3. Justice system doesn't work. Public shame and public pain MUST be brought back. Cheap - effective - instant "karma". Guilty verdict? Next day a public whipping or beating. Not to death, just to cause a great deal of pain. The local DA here agreed with me off the record.
4. Schools are rotten. They either need to change radically or disband. Bring back apprenticeship, standards, discipline, truth.
As an addendum, the continuing destruction of the natural family by the "gay" activists will only hasten the day where thugdom and bastardy are the norm.
Liberal message: Parenting is a biological thing designed to make an individual feel good about making a copy of oneself. The result of a sentient being is of little or no importance. The importance is ascribed unto the creating entity. If the resultant being has needs, those needs are to be subjugated under the wants of the creating entity.
I also think there is a deeper root cause than that: We have turned our backs on God and turned instead to government to solve our problems and provide for our needs when the bottom falls out of our lives.