Jamyl Bey
4 November, 2014
Engw_1100
Prof. Young
Essay #2
My Community
Although I live in Pine Hill I
consider my community to be Camden.
Because I spend more time there then I do my own house. So therefore in
my community there is problems that have existed for a while, the problems are
violence, and drugs. Now that has always been a problem. But it has gotten
worse over the last couple of years.
It’s so bad now that Camden is ranked one of the most violent cities in
America. I know firsthand the danger
that could happen, my friends and I were shot at one walking down the street
for no reason. Furthermore the issue
with drugs is and has always been a problem, and I think it will continue to be
a problem in not just my community but in the world. So the problems of
violence and drugs needs to be fixed and the people that can help decrease the
problem is the police by being more present and cracking down.
Violence and crime in my community
is a major problem. That needs to
change, to make the community a better place.
More efforts need to be taken to make things from the people in a
community, and from the law enforcement.
Law enforcement needs to be more present, and show people that they are
present. Also they need to stop being so
corrupt, stop taking bribes from the criminals and start doing their damn
job. There is not enough honest people
left in the world. We as a community to
can help this problem by not being scared of the people with guns making it a
bad place and stand up to them. Maybe
form a neighborhood watch to police the community ourselves if the cops don’t
want to do it. Also all unnecessary
shootings need to stop. I’m tired of
seeing the news that a innocent child was murdered by a stray bullet. Because they were in the wrong place at the
wrong time. Too many parents are having
to bury their kids because of the senseless violence. My sophomore year in high school I lost one
of my friends he was shot in the head at point blank range all because the
person wanted his bike. That truly
affected the community as a whole.
Drugs where do I even began to talk
about this problem. Dugs they are everywhere and I know it is
hard to really pin point the source of it. But the fact of the matter is it’s a
problem in my community and something needs to be done about it. Some people I graduated with who had bright
futures threw it all away because they started using and got addicted to
different types of drugs. People start
using drugs for various reasons some use it to fit in, others feel like they
look cool. Which it doesn’t make you
cool it makes you look dumb. Drugs not
only affect you but they affect the people around them. A way we can start to fix this problem is by
cracking down on drug traffic. Drugs need
to stopped and our community needs to be saved.
In conclusion my community all though it is not the best place in the world it is my community. I stand by it and support it. We can’t change the world unless we change ourselves. So the community can’t change until the people in it change, and stop doing the same old thing.
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