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What are ways to stop neighborhood violence in New Orleans? Is violence a learned behavior? Parental involvement should ban social media and any other sources that affect their kids. Neighborhood violence highly influences the age groups of 9-16 in New Orleans in many ways such as social media, music, videos, and what they are exposed to in their environment. Providing and actually making a way to stop neighborhood violence would decrease crime. Promoting jobs and opportunity can help out a whole lot. As you know neighborhoods that experience the highest levels of violence also experience high levels of poverty and unemployment. Without jobs people are left hopeless forcing them to do things out of the ordinary such as, robbing, stealing, and murdering. Teens who grow around that type violence most likely get accustomed to that type of behavior.
Training and better access to good jobs provides a path away from violence and toward opportunity. Doing that would decrease some of its crime. I think we should closely focus on the youth more so than the adults. Kids only do what they see, so if their introduced to those types of things they are tend to doing it. You can’t even fault the parents for what’s going on in the city today. Some kids grow up without fathers, especially the young men.
Without a role model or someone to look up to that makes them turn to the streets. Forcing them to be a man at very early age.They would soon have to make tough decisions about life.
We should start engaging fathers in their lives at a very young age. Building character in summer camps for kids to become a better person as they go through life. Another fact that may play a big role is the part of city or ward you live in. I know that in New Orleans where you from determines a whole lot. For the youth it puts them in tough situations.
It basically is giving them the green light to join a gang, and social media helps them out in a big way.Through the media rival gangs make threats, promote violence and recruit members. This activity leads to real “Stomp Outs”, real shootings, and real deaths. In addition to direct violence from social media, a new trend called “Fight Compilations” has become increasingly popular on sites such as World Star Hip Hop and Youtube. Continual exposure to violence like this can have effects on youth.
Meta-analyses of the unhealthy effects of media violence have shown that youth who view media-violence on a regular basis are more likely to exhibit antisocial behavior with toys to criminal, acceptance of violent behavior, increased feelings of hostility, and desensitization toward violent behavior. The information provided is not applicable to all youth who view it, but imagine a young impressionable pre-teen that may think this behavior is acceptable. Youth who oftentimes are continually exposed to violence in the media result to violence to solve their problems. This can partially be attributed to what they see and who are they around, because youth learn their social skills from their surroundings. Social cognitive interventions are one’s whose aim is to equip youth with social skills in order to cope with stressful situations, and are proven to be helpful in positive youth development, and youth violence prevention.
Using that will help prepare the youth for better future. Locating risk and intervene in neighborhoods. I thought police should be more engaged in the neighborhood by taking daily drive thrus and also be located at hotspots within the neighborhood. The city should pay cops more money than what they are getting because everyday they fight for the life on these terrifying streets. More police officers would keep drugs off the street! Most crimes in New Orleans are committed with guns. Gun violence occur at certain places and involves certain groups of people. Those people are most likely gang members. To reduce that everyone should have a curfew only for those purposes.
It would limit violence and put the bad guys away who are exposing the youth to those such things. I know for sure criminals who commit crimes don’t do it the daytime so I know it would be very helpful. The Group Violence Reduction Strategy is designed by criminologist David Kennedy and targets geographic areas of high crime and the groups that commit violent acts. GVRS targets known, chronic, violent adult and juvenile offenders by combining enforcement attention to all violent group members with a genuine offer to help. The objective is to assemble law enforcement, service providers and community members to deliver a strong message to offenders, “stop the shooting”, while also dramatically improving access to social services and the administration of swift and targeted enforcement for those who continue to commit violence. NOLA FOR LIFE suggested that New Orleans schools should create a process that links schools with counseling and victim assistance resources following a student-involved homicide. In addition, the city of New Orleans has helped schools develop their own crisis/trauma response plans and in collaboration with community partners, co-sponsored trainings in evidence based practices in trauma response, social and emotional wellness, and violence prevention. Furthermore, the city engaged school personnel such as social workers and nurses to increase awareness of available community-based mental health services.
To further enhance the capacity of schools to address trauma through both referrals and intervention at the school site, the City of New Orleans will build upon current efforts to help more schools form community partnerships. Community activities would be a big step toward stopping violence. Keeping Young’s kids occupied and off the streets. Building more playgrounds and all sorts of other things. Getting more involved with NORD will open so many opportunities for the youth. You start to wonder is that enough to stop violence.
New Orleans should consider another pay raise for officers in order to improve both recruitment and retention. Consult residents to tap their knowledge of local needs and crimes in their area. Also involve community leaders to help relieve the manpower crisis.Drugs are the motive to all homicides. You become more violent when you are doing drugs. As the National Institute on Drug Abuse explains, aggression is one of the possible side effects of some kinds of drugs. Specifically, PCP, analogs of PCP and anabolic steroids have the highest potential to make a person engage in violent behavior.
Some stimulants can increase person’s level of aggressiveness. The way you use certain drugs lead to aggression and violent behavior. Some substances such as alcohol, barbiturates and benzodiazepines, decrease a person’s anxiety, which in turn makes them more likely to take part in dangerous activities.It’s time to stop the violence that is killing our children and our communities.
It’s time to help each other build neighborhoods where each of us kids, teens adults can feel safe and secure from crime. Even though its tough task, it’s a challenge that each of us can do something about. We can reclaim our communities child by child, family by family, neighborhood by neighborhood. You can do a lot in your home, in your neighborhood, and throughout your community. Every child deserves a safe and healthy childhood, because no community can afford the costs of violence.
A healthier, safer community benefits each of us. Our children should have to raise their children amid violence because if we don’t stop it no one will. Violence holds victims, families, friends, and neighborhoods hostage. It rips communities apart or prevents them from coming together. Violence takes many forms.
Assaults, rapes, robberies, and homicides are directly violent, but crimes like burglary are often cloaked in violence and cause sometimes-paralyzing fear. Violence is not just about attacks by strangers. In about half the rapes in this city, the rapist knew the victim. In more than half the murders, the murderer and the victim knew each other. Assaults are more likely between people who know each other than between strangers.
Domestic Violence wrenches apart millions families each year. Child abuse, overwhelmingly involving someone close to the child, hurts more than a million children a year. Only robberies more commonly involve strangers than acquaintances. Weapons are part of the problem.
They make violence more deadly and less personal. Nine out of ten murders involve a weapon; eight of ten involve a firearm. Most Robberies involve the use of a weapon, most frequently a gun. One in five children has reported taking a weapon of some kind to school, most often for self-protection against others whom they believe have weapons. But weapons are only part of the story. Attitudes, emotions, and reactions are just as important.
Without working on all aspects of the issue, you can make only limited progress.The reason why people go beyond protecting yourself and family because violence penetrates schools, workplaces, and public spaces. It sucks the life out of communities everywhere. Even if you are safe from harm, violence still robs you. The cost of violence are enormous. The annual costs of caring for gunshot victims is more than $14 billion. The costs of private security measures, including those against violence, is estimated at $65 billion a year.
Violent crime is responsible for much of the $90 billion a year it costs to run our criminal justice system.We can stop violence as a whole. Strictly enforced policies against weapons in schools have helped restore a sense of calm in many classrooms. Conflict management courses have taught elementary school children to fight less and negotiate more. Concerted community efforts have reduced or prevented gangs and the violence they bring.
But these things only happened because someone did something. Work with your family, in your neighborhood, and in your community. Pick a place to start where you are comfortable. Recognize that violence has many causes. Some are immediate, a specific argument, easy availability of a weapon, a situation in which an aggressor thinks violence will bring quick rewards, an anger that sees no other outlet. Some are less direct for example, a community tolerance of high violence levels, reinforced by news and entertainment media. Some are individual inability to see another way to settle disagreements, for instance.
Some involve situations such as peer pressure that measures or boosts self-esteem through violence. No one needs to confront all these aspects of violence at once. The point is, there’s something everyone can do.The police department has agreed to strengthen investigation and prosecution of those suspected of selling guns illegally to youth, to investigate and help prosecute youth who illegally possess handguns, to support the youth and adult education programs, to build parent and community awareness of youth violence, and to dedicate extra prevention and enforcement efforts in parts of the city where levels of youth violence are high.By investing time in recruiting partner organizations, identifying local conditions and needs, researching effective approaches, and designing activities that invest more partners and enlist even more members of the community younger and older New Orleans has launched a thoughtful, tailored, flexible initiative to address a difficult problem. Making self and family safer from violence is, for most of us, the highest priority.
Work with your own children, with other kids you care about, and with teens and adults you care about to reduce the risk that you or someone you love will fall victim to violence. Making the world a safer place is better for the youth in every way. It would allow them to pursue a better career giving them many opportunties at life. I think we should teach children basic strategies for personal safety to prevent violence and reduce their risk of victimization.Help them learn and practice common manners. Please, thank you, excuse me, and I’m sorry could help ease the tension.
Emphasize the importance of being drug free. Stats show that the use of alcohol and other drugs is linked with violence, including the use of guns and other weapons.Encourage children to stick with friends who steer clear of violence and drugs. Make your home a comfortable place for these kids to gather; help them find positive, enjoyable things to do.
Remind children of simple self protection rules not to go anywhere with someone they(and you) don’t know and trust; how and when to respond to phone calls and visitors if you are unavailable.Rehearse what to do in urgent situations, like finding a weapon or being approached inapproprialately by a stranger or seeing something wrong happen. Families cannot be safe if our neighborhoods or riddled with violence. Researchers show that there’s less crime when communities are working together. Help your neighborhood become or stay healthy.
Work with others in your community to develop comprehensive, coordinated plans that direct civic resources to deal with immediate symptoms of violence, help neighborhoods strengthen themselves, and work on problems that cause violence. Enlist all kinds of groups; compare notes to avoid duplicating efforts and to benefit from each other’s know how.
