Gangs
Gang activity is at an all time high in Winnipeg and gangs are becoming more troublesome as the years go by. Fifteen years ago, when I read the newspaper, every couple of weeks I would read about gang activity. Today I read about gang activity just about every day. Gangs today are violent and organized. Crimes with fire arms are more frequent today. Every day we hear about someone getting shot or being shot at. Street drugs are how the gangs survive. They use children to deal their drugs for them because when they get caught, they get a slap on the wrist or nothing will happen to them because of the Young Offenders Act. Gang activity in Winnipeg is at its all-time worst. Something has to be done about it.
Ian M.
Rhonda Said,
May 19, 2008 @ 9:52 am
Hi Ian,
I too hope youth gang activity gets better before it gets worse. Do you think changes to the Young Offenders Act will help stop older gang members from taking advantage of children to deal drugs? If so, what changes?
Rhonda
Precious Said,
April 23, 2009 @ 9:32 am
Yesterday afternoon at about four o’clock my friend and I were just sitting outside with my brother enjoying the fresh air, and then there were these guys walking by. They started saying things to my brother about colors,but he wasn’t even wearing gang colors to begin with. The point I’m trying to make is these youth/adults need help, they’re getting out of control.
With the other comment above I think that is a good idea and it might work.
marienette Said,
November 4, 2011 @ 12:17 pm
Hi,
It was nice that you posted this out. It take some one with courage to post this. I will say yes gangs are becoming more serious in our city. This city used to be so nice and calm and you would hardly ever hear about gangs.
AlexL Said,
November 18, 2011 @ 8:28 pm
It’s very unfortunate that our young people are falling through the cracks of the system. Naturally it’s not only our youth that we need to worry about. Many times these troubled youth turn to the streets to find a love/companionship that they cannot get from home. Many find themselves in the same cycle years later. We need to focus more attention to where these youth came from. Their homes and families need not to be looked over. It’s the key to any child’s future. Although there maybe many resources out there, people in general and youth do not know how to access them properly. It’s unfortunate that we all have to be a victim to this in one way or another. This is a problem that grows and grows with only a negative outcome.
Brad.R Said,
March 19, 2012 @ 8:48 am
Only if you lived in the areas where this is all been happening in. You might understand why some youth join gangs but most of the time it’s how their lives are turning out and some time it looks like they have no choice . I would say more but I feel the goverment should try to help out the people and if so they would have less to worry about the Youth now a days.
Ceyda Said,
June 5, 2012 @ 8:44 am
Of course WE have cobrtinuted to the formation of gangs. Guys with low self-esteem but quick witted and with some smarts that haven’t been honed so he feels secure in himself will go and seek out other guys in his same situation and reign havoc and mayhem on the society they see have neglected them and thrown them aside. Crazy you say but it is a part of the many and varied reasons gangs form. We have turned a blind eye to domestic, physical and financial abuse; we’ve pretended that its a pretty situation when you can’t feed em you shouldn’t breed em by having baby showers and pretending that having children out of wedlock is NOT a sin; we don’t lobby for laws to deal with sperm-donors; we drive past kids walking to/from school who are from the lower rungs of society; we forgot to teach them to say grace for their meals; we forgot that what made us unique and kept us special was:- IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD. We forgot that each child; whether biological or not is OURS; just look at the havoc OUR younger residents caused two weeks ago!! Wouldn’t it have been better for Gov’t and private sector to have given those that needed/wanted vocational and technical training the assistance they needed rather than have the devil occupy their minds and time? YES we have failed. We as a nation has failed the test and I give an F as a grade!! BUT we can go back to the drawing board and re-do some of the ways we have been doing business with our future investments and just may save most of the next generation. God help us as we work together to make amends for the ills we have created and may He continue to bless the Cayman Islands
lacey Said,
October 29, 2012 @ 1:11 pm
I understand this. There’s a house 2 doors down and there are a lot of young boys who are trying to be gangster wearing colors, reaping the signs and walking around spraying up houses and anywhere they can tag the gang stuff. Young teenage boy/girls need to just go to school and become something other than being in a gang cause either they’re gonna die or become nothing but be in and out of jail. This city needs to do more with young people.