[Mpls] Gangs & Violence

[V.L. Freeman]

The Minneapolis Community is rich with resources, I suggest we use what's already in the community as resources to address the gang problem. Which I will do when I am elected to city council.

By establishing an Interagency Gang Task Force: unites the schools, the Health Department, the Sheriff and Police Departments, the Prosecuting Attorney's Office, and Juvenile courts and Probation officers work to identify gang-involved youth and prevent the cycle of youth violence.

Through this process we can begin to focus on implementing sources to
help get youth job training where they can get paid and build their skills at the same time, Provide parenting support classes and advice on how to deal with gang-involved children,Provide positive alternatives programming. Such as a peer to peer youth-directed group that addresses alcohol and drug use, physical abuse, gang activity, and dysfunctional families....

Some gangs have been around for years, and we are starting to see
2nd and third generational gangs, here in Minnesota. Meaning that's all they know, and that's their life.. In order to help win the war on violent gangs, we first need to understand the gang process and history and in order to be successful, we must be consistent.

Vanessa Freeman
Seeking DFL Endorsement
For Third Ward City Council

"The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the
punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from
being trained to crime."

W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903




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