PLATFORM : Guinea Pigs

It appears to me, working with gangs and drugs, that black male youth are used as guinea pigs by law-enforcement agencies that can so easily and quickly point the finger at the violence that’s associated with gangs and black youth.

In return, they use the stats associated with those crimes in the inner city to get large amounts of federal dollars. Once the dollars are provided, they are never spent in the impacted area. Once the federal dollars are obtained, they are sent to fight gangs and drugs on the beach, in Orange County, all the other areas, except where the stats are actually obtained.

Law enforcement is able to point the finger too often at gangs for the need for police overtime, point the finger at black male youth to obtain new computers, new helicopters, new hollow-point bullets. Everything that they need, or want, black youth and the black community is the reason for it.

Too often society looks for a suppression-type of technique rather than examine the social conditions that lead to the problem.