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.
unfortunately cries of “racist!” keep us from talking frankly about the issues with blacks.
For instance. What if... blacks (on average) are not as smart as other races, or are more prone to certain negative behaviors x,y,z?
We as a society COULD do positive things to address these issues... but the pressure to pretend that all races are equal prevents us.
Which is worse pretending all people are equal to keep from offending some and artifically inflate their ego (which just sets them up for a fall or to blame others) or to address truthfully the issue head on and design programs or help specifically targetted to help.
I though calling Black males “boys” was akin to using that elusive “N” word....
In almost EVERY case, no matter where on the globe it occurs, the violence is perpetrated by young men with one thing in common; NO FATHER IN THE HOME!
“We need black boy controls.”
No kidding! I made a comment yesterday to the effect that FR should set up a separate forum to chronicle the daily black crime in America. Someone posted that such a forum would consume all of the remaining bandwidth on the FR servers. Some days there are literally dozens of posts relating to horrible black crimes ( yesterday the kicker was the three “black highschoolers” who kidnapped and raped a 22 year old woman for half a day in Philly). Lincoln was right, send them all back, and see how they like “life” in Africa.
Shoot, just doing #2 would make a pretty good dent, eventually.
I’ll never understand why the gang problem has not been addressed head on as terrorism. Kill the gang leaders.
Not saying I agree with all of it, but that may be due more to my hardheadness than anything else.
Regardless .. Bravo !
If CW2 happens,the extermination of gangs will be a priority.
The murderers have no fault. They are just victims of their environment.
SOCIAL JUSTICE part of a 4 point UN agenda 21 program that goes under the name “sustainable developement” that is in almost every state and community in the united states, google it and watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enls5jqG7g8
Noting, for the record, that the author of the cited book Erectus Walks Among Us, Richard D. Fuerle:
I think I'll pass on Mr. Fuerle.
Gang violence isn’t destroying them, liberal social policies did the destroying.
You got something there, BUT it should apply to all citizens. There should be testing done in schools, aptitudes determined, and kids pointed to a career field in different trade schools where they can learn and actually make a living, instead of telling them they can become brain surgeons and sent on to clutter up city colleges, and take school loans they can’t repay. I basically was put into a daily two year secretarial class in high school beginning at age 16, and brought home a nice salary as a secretary for many years. A friend working as a secretary in a city college tells me the desirable classes fill up with the worst dullards,filling up seats that are then unavailable for more serious students. After 5 or 6 classes they realize they can’t hack it, and drop out and the teachers teach to half empty classrooms. Education desperately needs a re-vamp.
Chicago’s 500 murders is likely twice that amount.
A Chi=cop said that for every murder there are aproximately 30 shootings
some of which result in deaths. But they are not recorded as murders.
Richard D. Fuerle....I have never read his books. You will find others writing about R and K strategies all across biology. Others that will have credentials acceptable to you
I simply think it more likely that, within the human species, cultural, religious, education, economic, and social issues are more likely to drive how many children an average mother has than some imprinted genetic calling.
How do you see R and K strategies applying to gang violence by blacks?
And can we agree that Richard D. Fuerle is a racist lunatic?
I think what Rushton et al is saying is that DESPITE differences in culture, relgion, etc., that many of the biological outcomes are the same. IOW’s, even black Americans show the same trends as blacks in Africa as to prenatal rates, child development, etc. This probably holds true for whites and asians as well.
Thank you... yours too. Beautiful craftsmanship! That was a nice photo you posted of the piers at Norfolk, too.
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