The major approaches for preventing and handling crime in youths, are after school programs like camping trips where they get to bond with other kids and their counselors get to know them better and work with them personally to help them with their problems. The church is another approach in preventing crime by engaging youths in group meetings with other youths and parents to aid them in changing their troublesome views of life into better ones. Also there are youth sports where it encourages team work, leadership opportunities, and chance to meet other people from other cultures. Community based programs where they can socially interact with one another and discuss their problems and fears.
The police force can handle neighborhoods by implementing a community policing model that is more focused on individuals in the community by interacting and getting them involved in public safety. The police can also implement rehabilitative programs for those charged with lesser crimes as an alternative to jail time for those who want a second chance. Also police can work with community leaders and hear their ideas on how they can cooperate together to create answers to problems.
The law SB 1474 harms the objectives of police because it will allow, if passed, for students to carry weapons on campus whether they are trained or not. This can jeopardize the life of everyone on campus because in a critical situation police won’t be able to tell the difference between the suspects and the victims. The SB 1070 law will cause harm by negatively affecting police efforts in working with the community by creating mistrust between the Hispanic community and the police.
I agree with you that the major approach to preventing crime in youths is providing after school programs. It is known that the time when youths act out criminally is between 3-6 P.M. not when you would think, at night. Kids after school are bored with nothing to do so after school programs of all kinds are essential to preventing juvenile delinquency.
ReplyDeleteI do to agree with you on the after school program approach because any kid with too much time in there hands usually end up doing something a kid would do. :)
ReplyDeleteI do not think it is a wise choice at all for students to be allowed to have weapons on campuses. First of all they is no mandatory training for citizens right now requiring special training or anything like that. On top of that I would not feel to safe with a lot of trigger happy students around me just waiting to let their aggression out at any moment just because they had a bad day. One example that I always try to pull up is ok say there is a student who pulls out a gun in a class room and other students pull out their weapons and there is a gun battle. At the moment where the good kid shots the bad kid a cop walks in. What happens a cop has just seen a kid shoot another kid he has to do something to stop him without knowing anything that happened prior. So he shoots the good kid, what happens next? Just food for thought!
ReplyDeleteI think that as a community member you should be able to trust police workers and their efforts, but often people abuse the intentions of public safety and that's what causes budgets to sink. Those types of individuals take for granted that neglecting civil responsibility, they are neglecting the communities and the powers possessed by other growing and prosperous neighborhoods.
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