Repeat Offenders

Hall, Gaynor. "You Might Also Like." WGNTV. N.p., 20 Mar. 2013. Web. 11 Apr. 2013.

This article discussed how the many of the people arrested for many of the Chicago homicides are repeat offenders.  Meaning they have been arrested before for similar crimes.  The article then goes on to discuss how these repeat offenders grew up in areas where violence was the answer to everything.  A man by the name of Jerry Austin is quoted in the article saying he got his first gun at the age of 12.  Many of the repeat offenders are kids.  Which is why the city of Chicago is working together to try and help clean-up the streets by seizing illegal guns.  That way the gangs will have to solve there problems another way rather than just shooting and killing the threat.  But the thing the Chicago area is facing is people will only change if they want to change, so trying to get the kids and gangs to change their ways is going to be a challenge.

I enjoyed reading this article.  It was very insightful.  I admire the city of Chicago for wanting to clean-up the streets.  And law enforcement is right in the respect that these repeat offenders start when they are young.  One of the other articles on my blog discusses the moral development of criminals, and how they don't develop their moral reasoning fully when they are younger.  When they are young is when they are supposed to learn how to develop good morals, but in the streets of Chicago it seems like it may not always happen that way.  The kids get involved in things that are illegal and once they are old enough to realize what they are doing, it is too late to get out.