Gang Violence In The Interrupters

Gang violence is a major problem in many places in many places, and if the Interrupters keep up and expand their work, it could be lessened. According to the US legal website, "Gang violence means criminal and non political acts of violence committed by a group of people who regularly engage in criminal activity against innocent people." (UsLegal.com) In the movie The Interrupters, by Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz, there is a group of violence interrupters that are working on interrupting and stopping violence in Chicago. The gang violence has gotten out of control, and there are many innocent people and young children being killed because of this gang violence. A solution to this problem would be for the violence interrupters to keep doing
In order to help solve the problem of gang violence, the interrupters just need to keep up what they are doing and get more people to help them. It is a very good idea that the interrupters have all once been involved in gang violence or something of the sort. Then, the people that they are trying to help can relate to them instead of thinking they are just some sort of authority figure trying to tell them what to do. it is a lot easier for the people in gangs to relate to someone who once was also in a gang. The interrupters can talk to the people about how they were once in gangs and how much their life has turned around since realizing that that was not a good lifestyle to live. In the movie, every person that the interrupters had worked with ended up realizing
Although it could be bad because the people in the gangs are more likely to want to talk to someone that is not in authority, the interrupters teaming up with the police could be a help. It would be best for the interrupters to try to do the most that they can on their own seeing that the people in gangs are more comfortable around them, but when it comes down to them not being able to interrupt the violence, they could then call the police and get the police involved. Although the people in the gangs are not going to want the police to be there, they will at least be a little more intimidated by the police, and if things do not stop, the police can arrest them. A lot of the times, once a person in a gang spends a decent amount of time in jail for what they have done, they come to realize that the things they are doing really are not worth spending so much time in jail over. In the movie, there was a boy that spent a few years in prison for attempting to rob a hair cutting place. Once getting out of jail, he completely got his life back on track. He mainly realized how much him being gone affected his family, especially his little brother and sister. He went and apologized to the people at the place and honestly felt extremely terrible for what he did. If the interrupters get the police involved and start getting more people in serious