The culture of violence plaguing Newburgh NY is by design, not accident

[mdmc]

Recently Newburgh has been getting some attention from the White House and the FBI. Sen Scheumer was grilling the justice department on "how they can help reduce gang violence" in Newburgh.

The cause of this culture of violence is Prohibition. The drug war.
Violence keeps getting worse. And the solution is to double down on the failed policies that caused the environment in the first place. forever.

[NoNothing]

1. I'm sure the War on Drugs

Is just a surge away from victory.

[Newest Reality]

2. You bet!

Hold your breath and put your hands in clapping position. We are that close to total victory in the war against some drugs.

[mdmc]

3. ..

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4. Newburgh marks another homicide

The friend said Rodriguez's family kept his condition, location and even funeral quiet because they feared for their safety as well as the safety of Rodriguez. The friend asked to keep his name out of the paper for the same reason. He was there the night Rodriguez was shot and believes a teenager trying to impress the Bloods gang shot Rodriguez, mistaking him for a Latin King gang member.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100417/NEWS/4170320/-1/NEWS

[mdmc]

5. Newburgh's gang members: Jobless, hopeless and young

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100418/NEWS/4180319

City cops say one gang or another claims every street, every corner in downtown Newburgh. A teen gangster's killing in January followed by back-to-back gang-related homicides in March focused local, state and national attention on a problem that was years in the making.

FBI agents began speaking out at city meetings. Politicians all the way to the federal level took a renewed interest in Newburgh. The U.S. attorney general promised to send a top official for an in-person assessment.

Along with the killings, city police blame the gangs for shootings, machete attacks and the never-ending drug trade. Responding to gang violence has become a near-daily exercise in reaction and containment.

It starts early with the schools' staggered dismissals. Cops know from experience that if they let the early-dismissal students hang on the corners, the arrival of the second wave of kids can kick off giant brawls between gang members or gang members and unaffiliated kids. The fight on Wednesday at South and Dubois first began on the other side of Downing Park, when clusters of teens began to swell near Robinson Avenue. It reignited at South and Liberty streets minutes later.

[KG]

6. feeding the prison-industrial complex.