Posted on 12/29/2012 8:38:36 AM PST by Lorianne
From Chicago to Rio, from Jamaica to Nigeria, gang violence is leaving an indelible mark on communities across the globe, leaving authorities at a loss for what to do about the epidemic of lawlessness among young men who see little hope in their futures.
Certainly the global economic crisis has much to do with the rise in gang violence and influence, as young men of color in most of the affected countries see few options for gainful employment.
In Chicago, among 400 murders that have occurred in 2012, an estimated 80 percent of them have been gang-related. The killing in Chicago has brought national attention, with pressure being applied to Mayor Rahm Emanuel and local officials to put a stop to the surge.
The city is statistically more lethal to Americans than war-torn Afghanistan, where 271 Americans have died this year.
The issue of Chicago’s homicide rate was profiled in a new ABC “Nightline” special, “Hidden in America: Don’t Shoot, I Want To Grow Up,” hosted by Diane Sawyer and featuring rapper Keef.
Sawyer and her colleagues teamed up with the anti-violence group CeaseFire (also known as Cure Violence) to invite 38 gang members to sit down and discuss the escalating wars that have been claiming innocent lives. Almost unanimously, participants said that it would take nothing short of a miracle to control the violence.
The same hopeless conclusion was rendered in a local report on the gang violence shown in the video below.
In Nigeria, another killing spree has left 20 people dead as an armed gang stormed the village in the state of Zamfara and began shooting indiscriminately. They were there to rob, as they raided houses for cash and other valuables. The village chief in Kaboro pleaded with them to stop the shooting—so they turned their guns on him and murdered him, too. This attack comes after 23 people were killed in June, with some of their throats slit, in villages in Zamfara by gangs of robbers on motorbikes. This time they were armed with AK-47 rifles and they came on horses and motorcycles, waging an attack that lasted for about two hours, according to the Nigerian Tribune newspaper.
With one of the highest crime rates in Africa, Nigeria is notorious for gun-related violence, including kidnapping and robbery.
In Jamaica, officials are trying to make a dent in the gang violence by rounding up young men and detaining them. In Spanish Town, an area known for gang violence, police recently detained about 100 men, trying to stop an escalation in the gang wars after a local community leader, Donna Cowan, was murdered on Friday in Tawes Pen.
With an estimated 250 criminal gangs on the island, Jamaican officials hope in the next five years to lower the murder rate from the current 41 murders per 100,000 Jamaicans to 12 murders per 100,000. For comparison purposes, New Orleans has one of the highest murder rate in the U.S. with 33 murders per 100,000 residents.
In Brazil, officials in Rio de Janiero have the difficult task of cleaning up the slums (favelas) and curtailing the gang violence before the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games. In Sunday, authorities sent a force of 1,500 marines and paramilitary police in the Jacarezinho and Manguinho favelas in northern Rio to take over control of the area.
In similar raids across the city, the government claims to have taken over control from the drug gangs in some 30 favelas since operations began in 2008, according to Al-Jazeera, using more than 6,700 police. They hope to increase the number ot 40 favelas by the World Cup in 2014. But the problem is the city has around 1,000 densely populated favelas, where one-fifth of the city’s population of more than 6 million resides.
Brazil is currently the world’s largest consumer of crack cocaine and second-largest consumer of cocaine after the U.S.
Murder was once illegal in this country and when we talked about speedy justice, we were serious. And now?
Do you think a gang banger or wannabe has any fear (as a practical deterrent) of punishment from us?
How many people do you have to kill before we, the people, kill you back, and if so, how long does that take and how much does all of that cost?
We've learned how to vilify smokers and global warming deniers and other such dangers to society, why not do the same to the very real danger from the dark side of our humanity instead of glorifying it?
I hope they kill each other until the last one falls mortally wounded. Clean-up in aisle 6!
Plantations could be the answer!
That is NOT sarcasm, that is TRUTH.
When you feed the feral animals in your area, they lose their fear of being around civilization and you only end up with more of them.
That city is LETHAL to the US TAXPAYERS, too for having Obama get elected to ANY OFFICE...
I can clean up Chicago within a month. This cannot be solved in the criminal justice system. It has to be solved on the street.
Give me 24 retired SEALS, any weapons and munitions they feel they need and 8 very well armored SUV’s.
Go from neighborhood to neighborhood and kill everyone wearing a red or blue bandana. They want to act like wild animals, then they need to be treated as such.
They have had 1.8 million years to achieve something, anything in Africa.
And New Years eve is still two days away......
I can't wait to read the box scores in the Chicago Tribune on New Years day.........
Whoa! You be’s so right........lol
If they misbehave ,they are OUT!
Says the video has been removed by the user.
Can be seen here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6floPzsTcs
Boy, with democrats actively supporting the mass killing of black babies all in the name of “choice” and those who make it out of the womb killing each other it is amazing their population is not rapidly declining.
I blame lack of fathers, but I also blame these black mothers, (not all, mind you — I know several VERY good black women who are wonderful mothers in every way) who would sell their soul for a welfare check and a set of nails, or a chance to get their hair did in exchange for being proper parents.
Too many of them aspire to nothing except professional hoochdom. They don’t give a rats BUTT about these kids, or mothering in general, and are fully enabled by the liberal establishment.
Free one way ticket by steamship to Liberia, on demand. To pass the time they can try shark fishing off the fantail...for the sharks that are still “traveling the route”...
I’m surprised the Democrats can’t figure out a way to stop their future voters from gunning each other down in drug-related gang wars. Oh well. Wonder what’s on TV?
Your second statement holds true.
Seems like there is an angle here that needs to be examined. The libs have constantly harped on inequality and the supposedly widening gap between rich and poor. I have often thought that a big part of this was the bottom falling out of the society. There are simply millions of folks around with no skills and education and real bad attitudes to match. In the meantime, the work of society is done by less and less people, who are working harder and earning more money. (Just look at the shrinking workforce in the USA.) As increasing benefits and pay are dictated more and more by the government, more people will simply not be able to produce their employment cost and thus will find themselves unemployable. What is the answer? The only answer is a permanent and growing poverty level welfare class free from the burdens of work and responsibility, (whether they want it or not). Of course, this is totally unaffordable, and an apocalyptic “zombie” war is inevitable. The only good news for freepers is that you can pull out a 2012 red-blue election map and see easily where to live to avoid the worst of the coming collapse.
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