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The University of Calgary Gauntlet(R) [IMG] News Entertainment Opinions Sports Web Features Academic Probation Comics Photo Supplements PDF Edition LOW BANDWIDTH EDITION Print Advertising Info Letter Info Grievance Policy Archives Contact Us _________________ [ Search ] 2009-01-29 Opinions Opinions Archives | Contact (NOTE: Archived content: Battle for the streets ADVERTISMENT Current issue here) Calgary's gang war and how not to deal with it IFrame [image] Previous Issues Daniel Pagan Gauntlet Opinions News o Recession leads January 29, 2009 to campus job losses [Print] Print this story o Controversial (Click for larger image.) Israel-Palestine speaker visits Credit: Desiree Geib / the o Hunters Gauntlet negatively affect ADVERTISMENT the evolution of IFrame animals ADVERTISMENT o Gang violence IFrame was left to its own devices for too Just now, people in City Hall and the local media are running along like long headless chickens and people on fire. Do they finally feel bad about not o That Empty Space plowing the snow off residential streets, causing stress for disabled gets bigger, less residents, or are they sad about high taxes? No, they are worrying about empty the killing sprees and innocent people caught in gang crossfire, like the o SU New Year's spree in Calgary, which killed an innocent bystander. In representative actuality, the situation is manageable compared to Toronto or even locked out of Mexico, which is involved in a drug war with gangs. Overreacting to the office local gang problem by deporting gang members or by setting up security o Downtown cameras cameras could worsen the situation. A cool-headed atmosphere and City get the okay Hall learning from cities who have successfully managed their gang o Quitting smoking problems is what is required. on campus gets easier If you look carefully, Calgary's gang problem is different from o Speed fractures Toronto's, where there is a gang war between the Bloods, Crips and the no more Gatorz. In Mexico, the government has been struggling against the three main drug cartels, which have been expanding their influence. In north Opinions Mexico, cities like Tijuana are virtually lawless and over 346 people o A fishy question have died since the beginning of the year. Stories coming out of there o Child soldiers sound more like horror movies-- a drug gangster dissolved around 300 and the ICC bodies in acid baths for his boss. What about Guatemala and El Salvador? o Letter: Of Over 20,000 young people are members of maras (Spanish slang for gangs), unsearching even more members than the Guatemalan police force has. The maras are scientists also fuelled by money from drugs and illegal firearms. o Picking a patsy o o/No hablas Deporting these gang members, as Calgary has done in a few recent cases, Ingles? No poses problems. When the U.S. deported maras members from American jails assistance, no back to El Salvador and Guatemala, it allowed them to start their gangs luck! anew in poverty-stricken conditions with thousands of frustrated youths o The beauty of looking for power and money. And so the drug trade continued on. child labour o Battle for the Panicking like it's the end of the world and setting up questionable streets downtown security cameras are also not good ways to combat gangs. o The importance Security cameras may look nice on paper, but attempts to use them to of politics combat gangs in the U.K. have been remarkably unsuccessful. It is much o The Church and better for the police to treat it like an intelligence war with double homosexuality: agents, educate people about the dangers of being a gang member and avoid questions from dangerous racial profiling. Encourage children to play sports, paint or another age play music to get them off the streets and out of the reach of the gangs. Hit the gangs in their wallets, seize their vehicles and auction them Sports off, take their drug shipments and encourage drug addicts to get help. o Dinos win the Don't attack drug addicts, like America did with its failed War on Drugs, west but acknowledge they need help and that the gangs are benefiting from o Sporty sport their problems. shorts o Bekkering's There will still be gangs in Calgary because it is a big city with a basketball jones super-charged economy. As long as there's someone who's losing out in the surfaces yet again economy or a community that feels left out, people will continue to form o Dinos use tough gangs. And as long as there is demand for illegal items, there will be loss for motivation gangs who can profit from black markets. Calgary needs to learn how to fight its growing gang problem by looking at how other cities have Entertainment succeeded and how they have failed. o Calgary band aims to please all Share this story: del.icio.us digg Fark NewsVine Reddit YahooMyWeb ears o Interview: Come Asa Coma Reader Comments: o Being a diva may Add your comment or send a letter to the not be so bad editor o Woodpigeon o Slumdog Posted: 2009-01-30 03:33:55 Millionaire #1 - Not only does the other articles make o Esau Mwamwaya the gangsters sound like superstars. They and Radioclit are make asian youths who like to wear nice the Very Best clothes all sound like drug dealers. Making o Architects them alienated from other youths, making o Goblin Cock them more reluctant to join gangs. Your article should be in the newspapers and TV instead of on the internet. The media fails to realize the power they hold over the public. And instead try to sell more papers instead of helping the people feel happy. -The first smart editor I have read, Young Adult Posted: 2009-01-30 04:03:24 #2 - making them more reluctant to not join gangs* -The first smart editor I have read, Young Adult Posted: 2009-01-30 09:18:13 #3 - The war on gangs has been failing for far longer than the war on drugs. Calgary will only make progress when it starts to understand how to apply family values -Anonymous Cow Herd Views expressed are those of the posters and do not necessarily reflect that of the Gauntlet. ADVERTISMENT IFrame RSS icon RSS Feeds: [ Main - News - Opinions - Entertainment - Sports ] Volunteer at the Gauntlet(R) . (c) Copyright 1998-2009 Gauntlet Publications Society. 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