The young successful people are leaving my neighborhood because gangs are started many problems, that is affecting the neighborhood. Just last week there was an explosion in one of our manufacturing businesses because there was a gang dispute (big as fight) and the electrition had to evacuate before he had a chance to fully inspect the building.
Problem deVELOPMENT & Importance
My cousin is a future doctor and the smartest person I know , she went to University of Chicago and has studied meditation for years now. She is my role model bur just last year she left and moved to the north side in Oak Park because she quotes "I Hate Pilsen", so now i only see her few times a month and even then I barely spend some time with her. I too am feeling the frustration and angry that I cant walk without looking behind my back every time I step out of my house.
It states in (Chicagomag.com) that Chicago has more gang members than other large cities like Mamie, New York, Dallas, and Houston, besides Los Angeles. That this statistic is surprising because New York has less than a third of Chicago's gang members despite New York's size. Because of chicagos high crime rate many of our prisons have been crowded, and a place where people actually join a gang. (http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/January-2012/Why-Are-There-So-Many-Gang-Members-in-Chicago/
This problem is getting out of hand, kids my age are getting in with the wrong crowd, and the residents who do make it in life rarely come back and help kids like me. Sure there are programs around my nieghborhood to help us in our studies, but we really need are role models to show us that we can actually make it in life. Kids are dying because of voilence, and my community are terrified to tell on gang activity.
This problem is important to me because one day when I come back with a family I want them to feel safe, not like me now that every time I go to the corner store I have to look behind my back every 5 minutes. It is important because i want my nieghbors to feel safe, and i dont want people to leave because of the violence, and then leave me and other special kids left with nothing but gang members, drug dealers, and junkies. A few weeks ago on December, 29, 2012 there was a huge fire becuse of a gang related problem that caused a factory to catch on fire.