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When she was in a Chicago elementary school, Hadiya Pendleton took part in a video against gang violence. “So many children are out there in gangs,” she said in the 54-second clip. “And it is your job as students to say no to gangs and yes to a great future.”
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Last Tuesday in a city park, Hadiya was randomly killed in what police say was a mistaken, gang-related shooting. Just days before, Hadiya had performed with her high school band at President Obama’s inauguration.
Coming only weeks after the shooting of 20 children in Newtown, Conn., this tragic killing of another innocent child has thrown a fresh national spotlight on the fact that an average of 16 kids under the age of 24 are murdered every day in the United States, mostly by guns and many in gang violence. And most are urban blacks or Hispanics.
OPINION: In fighting gangs, US should look at El Salvador
The problem is particularly acute in Chicago, where gangs are larger and more organized than in most other cities. And despite various innovative anti-gang and anti-gun programs, city officials appear even more frustrated after Hadiya’s death. This January was the city’s most violent January since 2002.
Mr. Obama, too, has been frustrated with national efforts to reduce urban violence. Despite government programs to improve the quality of life, he said last June, “all this matters little if these young people can’t walk the streets of their neighborhood safely; if we can’t send our kids to school without worrying they might get shot.”
Urban leaders, he added, must “push through all the doubt and the cynicism and the weariness.”
This frustration in Chicago and elsewhere comes in part from seeing cities that have been able to demonstrate success in reducing gun and gang violence. But transferring these approaches to different communities isn’t always easy.
The US Justice Department is now working with state and local officials to apply the best ideas. One of the most popular techniques is to identity the small percentage of gang members who are instigators of violence and then change their behavior, either by using peer pressure or offering them positive alternatives to gang life, often with the help of an ex-gang member mentor.
But even that approach can be shortlived if gang-infested communities don’t have one key actor: local clergy.
In the 1990s, Boston pioneered the approach of having black church leaders cooperate with police to patrol streets, work with delinquent youth, and enlist congregations in crime fighting. In weekly meetings with police, for example, clergy can learn about current hot spots in gang tension and then pass on that information in church meetings.
After adding this moral and spiritual component to battling gangs, crime fell 60 percent in Boston in the ’90s.
“Black and Latino churches have been critical to creating peaceful urban communities, speaking better than any other institution in the voice of both righteousness and forgiveness, both of which are critical to the struggle,” says David Kennedy, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and a leader on solving urban violence.
More cities are now enlisting faith-based institutions in tackling violence. But each police-clergy coalition will need to find the unique community dynamics needed to make their effort succeed.
MONITOR'S VIEW: A 'light' touch to curb urban killing
As Obama told urban leaders last year, “We have to understand that when a child opens fire on another child, there’s a hole in that child’s heart that government alone can’t fill. It’s up to us, as parents and as neighbors and as teachers and as mentors, to make sure our young people don’t have that void inside them. It’s up to us to spend more time with them, to pay more attention to them, to show them more love so that they learn to love themselves, so that they learn to love one another, so that they grow up knowing what it is to walk a mile in somebody else’s shoes and to view the world through somebody else’s eyes.”
Or as Hadiya said in that video:
“Say ... yes to a great future.”
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Yeah.....tragic!
Lol wrong board....I fucked that up!
Wow......not doing well here! I hope this gets thru!
On behalf of the board ....thank you!
On behalf of the board....thank you!
I was basically implying .....don't waste your time.
The girl shot in Chicago did an anti gang message commercial.... Some idiot with an illegal gun killed her.....total bullshit.
He only wants to talk to Sox...oblige him.
Yeah we should drop everything and focus just on one topic. My bad!
What's more serious than guns in America right now? I don't remember Sox posting the 2nd amendment should be demolished.
That weapon would go thru all your walls in your house. Get the bad guy kill your kids...not a fair trade!
I think he is over compensating!
Ditto!
Thanks for showing concern! Means a lot!
Well said!
God to glory....might be a fundie! Thanks!
Good News..... Step daughter came out of the coma and can talk and move ...except her left arm. Trish is going to get her to the house and we can take care of her! I can finally sleep!
Yeah he is a NAZI. His way or ban.
Everybody should have rights
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True to a point...but the weapon damage was massive....due to advanced weapons...old tatics!
My favorite is the Gun Board....we should be allowed anything.....then they ban! Ironic!
GOV BOARD
BOARD OF THE OFFENDED!
Lol! Touché.
Here is my answer
The Rev. Dr. Mather Byles, Sr. (1706-1788), was the minister of the Hollis Street Meeting-house, in the far South End of Boston. He was unusual among the town’s Congregationalist pastors in siding with the Crown rather than the Whigs. But he refused to leave Boston in March 1776 even as his sons and the other Anglican ministers did. His congregation voted to dismiss him, and the legislature placed him under house arrest. The congregants were never able to get him out of the house they had bought, and his daughters reportedly refused to pay local taxes while they lived in it for a couple more decades, too.
What Bostonians remembered most about Byles was his love of puns. In his autobiography John Adams referred to him as “Dr. Byles of punning Memory.” I suspect that locals in the next century dropped his name the way we say, “As Mark Twain said,...” or “As Will Rogers once remarked,…” to signal that we’re about to recite a joke. Which might mean that Byles didn’t necessarily voice every remark ascribed to him.
Among the most famous of those witticisms was one Dr. Byles reportedly delivered on 8 March 1770, during the funeral for the first four victims of the Boston Massacre. Witnesses estimated that several thousand people participated in the processions that day, dwarfing even the ceremony for Christopher Seider. Watching this crowd, Byles is said to have asked a young companion:
which is better—to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or by three thousand tyrants not a mile away?
Point is.....does anybody need certain weapons.......
Guns make violence much easier and more lethal. One need only look at the difference between the Revolutionary War vs Civil War vs WWI.......6000 dead vs 9 million in about 150 years.
Lol look at the Monster Energy drink.....
In the last few months, Southern California-based Monster Beverage has faced increasing questions about its energy drinks. The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether the drinks are linked to five deaths, and there’s interest at the state and local level, too. Monster has until Friday to respond to a query from the San Francisco City Attorney.
The legal case of fourteen year-old Anais Fournier prompted the FDA to disclose that it’s investigating five deaths that could be linked to Monster Beverage. After the Maryland teen drank two large cans of Monster Energy within a 24 hour period, she went into cardiac arrest and died a few days later.
That was last year, and this October, Fournier’s mother filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Monster Beverage of Corona. With those two 24-ounce cans of Monster Energy, Fournier had consumed more than five times the daily amount of caffeine that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends is safe for teens.
“Well, we do know that caffeine raises the adrenalin in your body,” USCF cardiologist Byron Lee said. “That leads to increased blood pressure and increased heart rate.”
But Lee said it’s unlikely that caffeine alone would kill someone. Fournier had an underlying heart condition and Lee said it was likely the combination of the two that could have made the drinks deadly.
“I think it’s going too far to say that anybody who drinks a big dose of coffee is putting themselves at risk,” Lee said. “I think the real message is that if you’re not used to caffeine and you take a big dose of it, that there are going to be physiologic effects that you’ll feel. And if you have some pre-existing heart disease, I think there’s some potential for an abnormal heart rhythm that could be dangerous.”
Lee said there isn’t enough research about the effects of caffeine on teens and more study is needed. According to Lee, the drinks are being consumed in large quantities by adolescents.
Energy drinks, with their bold cartoon logos have found a market among teens and young adults. Researchers say teens use the drinks when cramming for tests, or because they believe it will enhance athletic performance. Some just like the jolt of adrenalin the caffeine provides.
Standing in front of a brightly-lit display of colorful energy drinks at a San Francisco corner store, 19 year-old Malaysia Sanders said she started drinking them when she was fourteen because the can looked so cool.
“Also, the fact that it kind of looks like alcoholic beverages too, it’s like, I’ll buy it, ‘cuz it looks like it,” Sanders said. “[It says] I’m cool, I’m hip.”
Sanders said she doesn’t buy energy drinks anymore, but the beverages are popular with her friends who skateboard.
Monster Energy’s website features a 17 year-old skateboarder amid a slew of extreme sports videos and images of “Monster girls” in low-cut tops.
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera said the energy drink market targets teens. Herrera recently sent a letter to Monster Beverage officials demanding they prove their drinks are safe.
“The campaign talks about how ‘bigger is better’ and ‘you can never get too much of a good thing’ or ‘two cans per day of 24-ounce Monster is responsible for safe consumption by adolescents and adults,’” Herrera said. “Show me the facts.”
Officials with Monster Beverage Corporation did not respond to our requests for an interview, but said in a recent statement that its products are “safe” and that its cans have stated for years that the drinks are “not recommended for children.
Herrera has given the company until November 30, to respond to his letter or face possible legal action. In the meantime, California health officials are starting to gather data on energy drink-related health emergencies. Tom Kearney heads one of four divisions of the state’s poison control system.
“I think we’re starting to develop a picture of what’s going on, but also finding that it’s somewhat murky,” Kearney said.
Kearney found 675 poison center reports involving energy drinks in the last three years. Most of them involved males in their early 20s who took the drinks with drugs or other substances.
“A lot of these cases, I don’t know their past medical history,” Kearney said. “It’s hard to gauge how much of the product they used, did they misuse the product or not?”
Kearney said much more study is needed before the state can determine if energy drinks pose a public health risk.
Wise man!
Were good..... Enjoy your posts!
Count out the military.....they are trained to take out a target no matter the collateral damage.....ex cops....ok!
I was responding to this
SoxFan
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 2:41:59 PM
Re: dropdeadfred post# 72572
Post # of 72647
Ok you are nuts ok. You think because DHS puts out a bid for 7,000 weapons and calls them "personal defense weapons" they are talking about you? So under your logic if DHS puts out a bid and called their hand grenades "personal defensive explosion devices" then it would be ok for Billy Bob next store to buy some.
These are for Homeland Security officers and not you. Or do you think you are entitled to everything the government wants to buy when they go out to bid. People like you are sick fucks
Lol Born in MS raised in TN......... Painting with a wide brush there Sox.
Teachers are not trained to handle weapons....period.
Point is....if you read the thread....you don't need everything the military has.
For a stolen gun.....10 years.
Most people don't understand the damage military weapons do ...... They are designed to be devastating in a small area in a short time. I threw the old baseball Handgrenades.....they were heavy and powerful.....loosened my fillings!
The killing of that girl in Chicago was a tragedy. They won't find the killer and he will do it again. Madatory prison for stolen guns.....stole it...hold it.....shoot it.....period.
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Energy and matter interchange....yep!