I'll drop, then. If I had the money, but not every day. Yeah, but I'd still come back around. But in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb a little north of Cicero, Political Science Professor Evan McKenzie says their town's gang prevention and intervention programs have worked well and are much more effective than banishment. And I just think it's completely wrong- headed to take a segment of your society, your own community, the people who live in your town who went to your schools, who walk in your streets and play in your parks, your kids, and then argue that they are the enemy and that they have to be banished from the community.
Cicero does have some successful gang-intervention programs.
Seniors Victor Borrego and Oscar Suarez both credit the program at their high school in Cicero with keeping them in school and out of gang activity. It's treating us like prisoners because we can't even stand in front of our own house because we're getting harassed by the cops. And then they search unfortunate for no reason. And even though you ain't a gang member, they're still going to stop and harass you. They don't care.