Taking on South Bend's youth violence

What is missing is those kids' dads.  This is in no way racial, but a lot of black kids do not kow their dad.  Either because he's lcoked up, deserted them or lives too far away.  That is very sad.  When I worked in the schools, only one black family had both a mom and a dad.  All the rest were split familes and most never saw their dad.  Dad's play a pivotal role in grooming a young boy into manhood.  Mom's can't do it all.  Mentoring is great, but these kids need more.  If more kids had both parents, less kids would be into gangs or crime.  Same with the hispanic familes as well.  Includes whites in there as well.  Single parent households struggle the most.  These kids are acting out because they know nothing else.  They have no clue it could be different.

The lady is right --mentoring has been around a long time--what happens after the mentoring is done should been personally responsibility and a home environment that supports the young people-- all the programs and entitlements in the world won't work--the big problem in this community is gangs and drugs--a recent drug bust took authorities 3 years to climax--thats way too long --we need action NOW--not 3 years from now--the police deptartment and the mayors office need to step up and take responsibility for these actions or lack of action--lets face the facfts--this community is out of control --the last administration did very little to curb these problems except for a few "feel good" programs that were implemented--I challenge the Mayors office to put some teeth in their responsibilty or GET OUT !