A note about kids and gangs

Respect Each and Every Blood OK

One Plainfield youngster at Monday evening's budget hearing was brought nearly to tears at the thought of what feared recreation program cuts would mean in terms of his neighborhood, where he said kids must face gangs and shootings as a regular part of their lives.

A parent repeated those concerns, adding that Plainfield's gangs reach down to the elementary school grades -- even to third- and fourth-graders, he said, saying also that many parents were simply unaware, but that the kids know.

Know the signs. Know the colors. Know the codes.

Put me in mind of a story I put up last year with illustrations of all the coded gang signals in clothing and sports gear for the Bloods, Crips and Latin Kings (see the goods here).

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Plainfield Today: "It's Spring, and thoughts turn to...gangs?"

Here are a few websites with more information about gangs, gang colors, and intervening or preventing youngsters' involvement with gangs:

http://www.gangcolors.com/

http://www.gangsorus.com/letterse.html

http://sheriff.co.marion.or.us/parguide.asp

http://www.gangstyle.com/gangs_colors.php

-- Dan Damon

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