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Salt Lake police respond to more gang violence

Why am I not suprised? The key word here is GANG HISTORY!!! The judicial system needs to start focusing on the history before acting.

Now we aren't even allowed to wear whatever color clothing some bunch of punks don't want us to? In our own yards?

It's time to get tough on these immoral, immature, greedy, insane people. I don't care if they are juveniles--the bullets aren't. It's time to stop giving violent criminals a slap on the wrist and considering them "children".

How old was Billy the Kid when he killed his first man? And he didn't stop at one killing either.

If you are old enough to take a gun to a total stranger or rob or burglarize someone's car or home for your drug money, you are old enough to do some serious time. And chain gangs wouldn't be out of line here either. These guys think they're tough--let's at least expect them to work as hard as we taxpayers have to do.

Why does the news feel it is important to emphasize that this was a mistake in identity? Is it meant to scare us?

On night a few months back I got turned around and ended up in Glendale. I drive a red vehicle and apparently the gang of kids in blue did not like me in their area. When I saw them I drove off in the opposite direction as fast as I my car would go. I must have gotten lucky because they did not even shot at me.

Do us all a favor, lock them up and throw away the key.

gang-related? I thought it was cash-money related.

Was that dollar store shooting? - they only got away with 60 each. WOULD YOU consider that cash related?

As in any major city, when the economy goes down - crime goes up.
Live with it and find a way to get away from it all.

How naive to think that the gang bangers would cease and desist from their violent behavior just because the community had a couple meetings.

our society has failed to accomodate the needs of our underserved -
therefore the young people from the underserved areas of our community turn out to be failures.

I am surprised. I would have thought that the harsh charges brought against the last shooters would have some deterence.

Silly or Naive me?

SEames To Me The Police Arent Doing Enough , Nor Is The City Councel,Its Time To Start Hiring Legal People To do The Work That Needs To Be Done And Tell All These Whiners , You Break The Law You Will Pay . You Fit The Punishment To The Crime ., And No Apeals.

The Police are doing their part, now it's time for us to step up and help them out. We need to watch out for these gangs and report there whereabouts to the Police. Let's weed them (gangs)out of our neighborhoods and communities. The Police can only do so much...

Re: re Really?

Do you really think that they care what the rest of us think?

How often do they get a slap on the wrist and how often do they get punishment that actually fits the crime?

They don't have to be a mathematical genius to figure out that their odds are in favor of a slap on the wrist.

Do you really think they'll change their behavior after one case?

It's good to help the police in this regard.
It's better to try to find out why our young people think they need gangs.
Perhaps this is what happens when human beings are being thrown away in our society.

FINALLY the D-News addresses the gang problem in Glendale/Poplar Grove...Win some SLC subscribers, write more about the people actually living in SLC

The News article still doesn't address the issue of outlawing any kind of gang activity. The only reason there are gangs is to claim territory, prove how maucho someone is by violating someone else's civil rights, selling drugs, prostitution, and outright blatant I don't give a d..n about society attitudes. These two-bit scum have no desire to be responsible citizens and only want to cause trouble and yet our judicial system gives them nothing but a slap on the wrist. Juveniles or not they should pay adult penalties for any crime they commit. I'm sick and tired of juveniles with rap sheets several pages long, being told that society has failed them. They are nothing more than selfish brats that need to be taught a lesson and it may come down to an old time version of the OK Corral to eliminate these vermin from the streets of Utah. Sad, but the real blame lies right on the heads of the lazy, irresponsible parents for not keeping their children in check and for our law enforcement most of the time, looking the other way hoping the gang problem will go away. There will be a reckoning.

You have said better than I could, I totally agree. These guys are cowards and punks. I don't care if they are black, white, red or brown. They make me sick. All we can hope for is for them to kill each other because our law enforcment is not working.

Interesting how those arrested are "documented gang members". If they are documented, why are they out n the street? Obviously this group didn't reform.

It is a sad day when we have to admit that it took death and near death for the gang issue to be addressed. The areas where this crime is from are places where you don�t walk outside your home during the day, and never at night. However, gangs are taking over cities and towns all over Utah and we need to do everything we can to stop them.

Gangs are beyond out of control!

One thing you left out--many of these gang members are now coming from parents who see nothing wrong with criminal activity. Of course, some don't, some even have good parents who have tried to teach. But throw in meth addiction, and even "good" kids go bad real quickly. Serious punishment works--30 days in juvie isn't even enough to get a kid real sober, let along work on his issues.
And at least serious incarceration keeps them from going back to their old ways quite so soon--which does tend to protect the rest of society.

I work with Juvenille offenders for a living... and a high percentage of them are gang-bangers.

Many of them could change with the right role-models, the right training/education, and the right environment after they leave a facility. I can still find good in most of them.

But there are those few (My studets sometimes call them O.G.'s) that are totally and completely evil. There is no hope for them. They destroy people's lives by getting kids to do their dirty work for them. They don't care whom they hurt. They get off by making others' frightened. They are self serving terds. Life in prison, or the death penalty is too good for these losers. I cannot ephasize that enough.

Eventually kids in gangs will end up as the "OG's" if they are not imprisoned or killed before then.

Early intervention is so important. But also...we need to send a message to the gang-bangers. The harsher the punishment for an OG, the better.