06-02-2009, 01:43 PM
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I'm a chicken
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
Posts: 1,148
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Originally Posted by JollyRoger
In the big Texas metropolitan areas, they are a huge problem, but tend to be a problem only for those who live in the neighborhoods they inhabit. About fifteen years ago, in Houston they were a HUGE problem everywhere. Then a guy named Bob Lanier came along, he ran for mayor and did an honest thing, he said if elected he was going to raise taxes, and the higher taxes would be used for one thing: hire more cops. Lots of cops. Gang intolerent cops. He won, they hired thousands more police, and then Harris County followed suit, hiring more sheriffs and constables as well, and they all went to work, sending anyone who looked at someone with a gang-glint in their eye to jail. It's been a lot better ever since, at least in Houston, but in the cities where they have not gone the extra mile on hiring cops, San Antonio most notably, gangs are making people's lives miserable, so there, they just shoot them.
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I have not much experience with gangs, but as Hattie says, just go away to the good side of town. Thats what I did. My parents are both probation officers, and the side of town we lived on was infested with gang members and drug dealers and they could see where these people lived and the crimes they commited. pretty scary. I went to a high school that was pretty bad, but if you just kept to your group of friends you were ok. I suppose I am lucky that I grew up on a seedy part of town but really didnt have much problem with lowlifes.
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