In your neighborhood, on the streets, every where we turn there is some type of gang problem. How do we stop these gangs from destroying our neighborhood? How do we prevent our friends and relatives from joining gangs? There are so many unanswered questions about gangs and through this essay I hope to answer a few of them.

There are so many different reasons why kids join gangs. Some do it to get revenge on someone and some do it because they enjoy doing bad things to people. Why some kids enjoy these things we may never know but we do know why they do them. These are most of the reasons why kids join gangs. For protection, because of poverty they think they will get money by stealing it. Some are influenced media. They be recognizable to other children and to be popular, they might have been...