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- Dec 17, 2019
I suggest we declare them terrorist organizations.
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Honestly, you have to get them young, gangs offer you prestige, hores, drugs, and an exciting life where you can gain power. Once they're in it's hard to get them out, it gets more difficult the higher up they get and the more blackmail the gain has on them. Give them something to do when they're young make sure they are taught they can make there fortune another way and make their life exciting. Once their teens your pretty much SOL, it isn't impossible but it's insanely hard and insanely dangerous.
Gangs also offer security and a way to avoid getting mugged or beat up. Increase security and policing dramatically and people will lose half their reason to join the gang. the issue with this is you'll be called a racist and the people in the community will riot even if you ensure that every officer/security person is black and or from the community.
It can be solved and it's way to easy to just say fuck kill them all, lord knows that's how I feel half the time, the main issue is that gangs are a problem that politicians love. They create fear and division in the community and do a great job of slaughtering the young men ensuring single-family households. They also make an easy promise since you can just throw money at it and make it look like your trying. They also have this nasty habit of thinking making certain crimes legal or unpunishable will solve the problem, I.E. no prosecution for drug use, prostitution, theft under 1k. This does nothing but destroy the community and increase gang violence.
You can also try to convince the communities that the gangs are not their friends and try to get rid of most poor communities' hatred of snitches. That requires you to own the entertainment industry though and you are on a razor-thin line of being perceived as a helper or a racist.
TLR Got to get kids young and give them hope, you have to increase security, and employ mega guillotine on most big-city politicians and progressives so shit can actually get done. Or we can just go the right-wing death squad route and lower our population.
Gangs generally come about because of a lack of real economic opportunity. If your some fucking hood rat, you know you are fucked in the job market, so you join a gang to engage in organized criminal activity for money. In most places, this means selling drugs.
While I would probably get some laughs watching these gangs getting rounded up, placed against a wall, and shot, another group of gangs would just take their place.
You got to get these exceptional individuals some job skills that don't involve selling drugs...however that won't happen until the men of certain demographics start raising their damn kids...and I have no idea how to make that happen.
If you kill the leaders, new ones will step up and set up their own sect. If you don't touch them and instead go after the little guy, it means joining a gang offers no real protection.Kill the gang higher ups (preferrably messily). The gang life style romanticizes the access to power, it's sway over certain communities is too great to reverse and causes them to stagnate. The only way to fight against this influence is to create a new status quo.
New leaders can keep stepping up, as long as they will not survive long the appeal will vanish.If you kill the leaders, new ones will step up and set up their own sect. If you don't touch them and instead go after the little guy, it means joining a gang offers no real protection.