Think You Can Stamp Out Crime?
A Los Angeles City Council Representative Eric Garcetti wants to hear your public safety ideas. Have a plan to solve the problems of gangs, guns and/or domestic violence? Maybe it's a neighborhood watch? Increased after school programming for kids? More police monitored cameras in crime hot spots? Whatever your idea, we want to hear it!
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I know this is old school, but basketball leagues are always hot. Great way to occupy people.
Another crazy idea: can you convince the malls and stores to stay open late? it keep people employed and shopping instead of hanging out.
I believe most crime begins with varying degrees of mental health issues--stress, low self esteem, bullying, road rage, depression, addiction, and on up to more serious mental illnesses.
I don't think we should alienate or condemn people with issues; I think we should do more to help them and thereby help ALL of us by preventing tragedy.
If we educate people of all ages about how to deal with emotional health issues, I believe the result will be dynamic. We should all learn more about self esteem and stress relief in our own lives. We should also be educated on how to detect a possible problem with a friend or loved one and WHAT we can do to help them and keep everyone around them safe and healthy.
Whether through the education system or through community programs, we should all get involved somehow. Addiction and mental illness is affecting us all a great deal yet none of us really knows what to do when faced with a serious issue--our own or someone else's. We don't know who to call or what to do.... and then tragic things happen as a result of our helplessness.
I totally agree with you Owl72.
The majority of those in jail for major crimes have mental illnesses. If you have a mental illness you are not being helped in jail; if anything being locked up is making things worse. If we could just help them out in a facility that yes detains them but also has therapy, community projects and such to help these "criminals" deal with their mental illness and possibly learn anger management and how to calmly, safely and correctly work with the public.
Also, our mental health institutes are in terrible shape, but that is another story.
Sports, clubs,dance, music lessons any extra curricular activity can help students. Getting them interested might be tough. So really make it look good and fun when announcing it.
I do agree with everyone, except I wouldn't call low self-esteem a mental illness, since everyone has it to some degree. I do agree that low self-esteem does contribute to it. Someone with less self-esteem is more likely to bully someone. So helping people with those issues would definately help.
However, there is something that no one has brought up. After the virginia tech incident a teacher brought up that the best way to prevent something like that from happening again was, when you were thinking about saying something mean about someone, think: would you want someone to say that to you, how would the person react. Then stop!
I think that students should be taught that their actions can really hurt others, and get them to understand that there can be consequences for, and most of all IT'S NOT FUNNY!!! The reason that most students pick on people is because they think it's funny. They need to learn it's not. Granted it has been done before so it might not do much.
I don't think we can fully end violence amongst teens and others. But we sure can help reduce the statistics. I mean have you read the statistics! 11-12 year old know people in gangs!
-Join a club after school, weekends, maybe even get your friends involved. Join something your passionate about so it doesn't feel as if you're forced to be there, rather you want to be there.
-Talk to your teachers, maybe your favorite teacher, and explain to him/her the facts about bullying. Then maybe see if you two can talk to the school's principal and try to get him/her to hold an assembly. It may take time, but if at least one of every 3 students who went to that assembly took something home with them, in their mind, bullying could be reduced a great amount.
-If you're being bullied, dont try and take measurements into your own hands. I knew a young girl who took her life because of bullying, don't let it become you. Talk to a friend, a teacher, an adult. Someone you can trust, don't be afraid, no one is going to judge you.
Just remember, have faith. XoXo.
--Cross cultural community programs to promote tolerance and understanding.
--Teach about gun safety in the school system.
--More youth programs so they do not get involved in gangs.
-- More street lamps in high-crime areas.
-- More community outreach. At USC we get DPS notifications through email and text message. Make this available to all LA residents so they know how to stay safe.
Community outreach and extracurricular activities I think are two of the most important things we can do. Adding more security cameras and imposing more restrictions will just create anymosity and almost challenge people to retaliate. Improving the physical environment in which we live in is also key in decreasing violence because it will inadvertently improve our emotional and psychological disposition thus making us less likely to have negative feelings.
I think its important for the people in the community to know about the extent of gangs, guns and domestic violence in their area.
A lot of people don't even think there is that much violence in their community since they are so sheltered. If people became more aware of how common it is, people would be more likely to take action and try to prevent it.
Conflict-resolution classes in all schools and a reduction of conditions that perpetuate poverty will drop crime rate, because poverty is a key underlying issue that promotes conflict and crime.
Why don't you take families who are having hard times and put them in a free community class together? Maybe that will reinforce love and the kids won't join gangs.
I know that schools all over the United States holds assemblies for kids. The only problem is that parents need to be participating in these assemblies as well. The cycle continues with everything when it comes to parenting and living life in a successful way and that is how children learn. If they come from an unstable home, they will only learn the wrong way and will never learn the right way. Parents and children all need to come together as one and be taught the basics and then work their way up. I believe that a lot of gang violence starts with children not knowing and learning from their parents with what to do that is wrong. They are basically teaching their children that the only way to live life, is to fight for it. Literally. In this case, they are wrong in so many ways.
I have had people in my life tell me that "Life is hard, so why make it harder." They are right. People need to figure out what they want to do for themselves and what they want to do that makes them feel good as a person and be who they are.
My ideas are that
- Assemblies in schools are needed but children and parents must attend.
- Something that I wish I did in high school but never did was theater. I think that theater could really help children and let them be who they are but also act out in character. I always thought that if I was in theater, I would be considered a loser. But I was wrong. Children have talent and can express it!
in my opinion i think the only way to stop bullying is to teach them about the word love.Love is very strong and alot of teenagers and kids do not receive it and i cant forget the bible, not the bible itself but christ, tell them if know one else loves you, christ does. TRY IT.
in my opinion i think the only way to stop bullying is to teach them about the word love.Love is very strong and alot of teenagers and kids do not receive it and i cant forget the bible, not the bible itself but christ, tell them if know one else loves you, christ does. TRY IT.
The answer is school. The more kids stay in school, the less time they have on thier hands. Plus, if they know that by bieng educated they can have a happy and sucsessful life, they will be more obligated to stay in school. After school programs like sports and clubs, also give teens less time on their own or with the wrong crowd. I know a guy that does marijuana, not really a gang related thing, but I can see him becoming a gang member eventually, and he does no after school activities.
Also, if parents crack down more on thier kids about school they might be more pressured to make their parents happy. It's so simple yet nothing has been done!
I think most people would agree with you but I, for one, am not religious. I don't go to church, I don't necesarily believe in god. I think teaching about love is a great idea, but there are plenty of people (most complete strangers) who would love these kids who aren't getting love without using religon as the source.
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