Daniel Dominguez

College Writing 2

09/22/2014

The image on the right was drawn by a member

of the Spanish King Cobras. Of course this is

considered as vandalism, which is a crime to the

community. Gangs graffiti each others

communities to mark territory and show who is

stronger. The problem with this besides

damaging property, it catches the attention of

teenagers. They begin seeing graffiti around

their house and begin to draw gang symbols on

their notebooks.

What type of violence do we see?

The graffiti on the left represents Latin Kings. This wall is filled with

graffiti by all members as part of their initiation to be part of Latin

Kings. The two pictures shown are two different neighborhoods that

are control by a certain gang.

The man to the right is part

of a Gang. He stands there

representing his territory.

He throws gang signs to

any suspicious car or to

adults who look like they

are part of another gang.

The issue with this is that

they gang up on innocent

children and cause harm to

them.

Gang Violence

As I take a walk with my little cousin to the park, I

notice alcohol inside the playground. I am disgusted

by the fact that adults have the courage to drink in

playground surrounded by children. Children pay

attention to their surroundings and notice any kind

of alcohol around them can be a bad influence to

them. The danger to this is they can easily grab the

alcohol and drink from it if no guardian is around.

This beer is easily placed

in a location where a child

can drink of from it. Our

role as a society is to make

sure our parks are cleaned

with nothing that can

catch the children

attention

As a society, we should know that if we see any type

of violence, we should immediately contact the

police. However, sometimes the police does not

arrive immediately. If we always see some kind of

suspicious activities around the community, we

should ask for POD’S from the police department.

They will put together police cameras on top of street

light poles to catch any evidence and prevent any

violence. It has a 360 degree rotation along with

zoom. My neighborhood has around 10-20 of POD’s

and it prevents any drug dealing and gang violence.

Types of ways our society can

help our community

POD’S

If we know that there are certain streets that have

the most crime, we should have more police

patrolling around the area. The picture on the right

was by Lake Shore Drive. I believe we should double

up the amount of police we have in our streets to

decrease the amount of violence we have. Having

more police officers driving around can prevent the

gang violence in our communities. Also, it can

prevent vandalism along with having cameras

around the neighborhood.

What should we

have more often in

our communities?

Another way our community can feel

more safe is by having police officers

walk around the neighborhood. To

prevent any violence, if you are planning

on walking in the night, we should have

walking police officers to walk with the

person. They should also walk around

the parks making sure there are no

violence around the children’s safety. Our

society should have a petition to having

more police officers patrolling the bad

neighborhoods.

Our society should be concerned with the

safety of our children. So, I strongly believe

that we should have more adults volunteer

as the two people on the left are as CPS

Security to make sure the neighborhood is

safe when school is beginning or when is

done. Many fights or other types of violence

occurs after school, but perhaps having more

security around can prevent it.

I am strong believer that by

having cops in horses

patrolling the area , it can

decrease the amount of

violence in certain

neighborhoods.