- Roy McMurtry and Alvin Curling Report on Youth Violence

I was going to post this as a comment to the following but missed the cut-off by seconds.

Youth violence tied to racism, report says
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Globe and Mail Update
November 14, 2008 at 11:11 AM EST
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081114.wyouthviol1114/BNStory/National/home


Hi Alvin, nice to see you back in action – sorry I mean town.

An analysis of all the comments made here might be interesting.

I am not sure that spending a lot of money as suggested is the answer.

As far as youth gang violence is concerned it seems to me that until the communities in which they live and thrive decide to do something about it at the “grounds” level, so to speak, no amount of money or effort by any level of government will have much effect – unless, of course, you are considering a military type occupation with 4 –5 police on every street corner – compare New York City. Even this does not cure the problem but it does tend to suppresses the violence. To be clear I would not support such a “solution”. But nor do I support the government, no matter what level, simply throwing money at the problem.


Lloyd MacIlquham