Comments about ‘Adults encouraged to be role models to steer children from gangs’

Andrew Valdez Family matters
Stay on the right path
Like in many pages of a Book...

Midvale Rosepark Glendale were so very Quiet..
Salt lake continues to grow..So much to do as residents continue to bring in more social events..

And it must have some good ways to help out our young youth A big plus to keep family encouragement~

I worked in a group home and would regularly get phone calls from Judge Valdez, just wanting to know how so and so was doing.
Great man, has my respect, because he has earned it.
He cares more for kids then anyone I know.
The other thing is, that the kids know that when he tells them something, he will follow up on it.
Had more then one kid shaking in his boots when he found out he had judge Valdez.
Later the kids said he was the only judge that could have turned me around.
Good man

Teach them english, that's a good way

One another for all people

please drop the mindless racial baiting. it only speaks poorly of your own character and not the character of others.

Gee know alot about gangs do ya.
ever heard of straight edge, one of the bigger gangs in utah, made up of middle to high income white kids.
Got asian gangs that probably know three languages and do trig when they are not robbing you.
Dealt with alot of white gangsters at the detention center.
Do not think that this is just a minority problem.
That is how the gang problem in Utah got so bad.
People figured it was a minority problem.
Until someone got shot at the fair
Then suddenly we wanted to fund it.
Take it from someone who has been in the game for 25 plus years now.

please stop the PC garbage. Enough is enough. How many violent crimes do we need to have happen in our communities before we acknowledge that there is a strong correlation between race/citizenship status and gang activity. You keep telling yourself there is no correlation. That will keep you safe. I'll be realistic and try to do something about it.

Let see probably one of the biggest gangs in history were the nazis and they were white.

Economics is the major reason gangs have developed. Parents are forced to be workaholics just to provide for their families the basic needs. Low wages and slave labor have forced parents out of the home to leave their children in the hands of government and schools and day care. What else can you expect children to become?

With children left unattended and unsupervised they gravitate towards each other and a bond develops that creates a gang. The gang swears loyalty and secrecy to each other as a family.

Children can't work or get jobs so gang leaders become the employers who give children a job and rewards as criminals. This life gives children an identity and a sense of belonging.

While the police and schools know about the gangs, the parents are oblivious to their existence.

Fewer jobs would allow a parent to be at home to raise their children as responsible citizens. But debt and money pulls parents away and that is the example they get. Even parents are looking for an identity and trying to prove themselves as workers first and parenting someone else's job. Wealth and possessions have become more important than family.

every color young and Old
as a Society to pull together
and -PROGRESS-in todays social Living