A number of stories abound, in regard to the drug dealer or gang leader that gives money to mothers to buy groceries, who sponsors local sports teams, and always gives away Christmas presents during the holiday season. These same people always seem to have the newest clothes, most expensive cars, and to have the prettiest women attached to their arms. To an impressionable youth, the drug dealer or gang leader is a successful role model and someone they want to emulate. Thus, career criminals teach juveniles how to commit crimes, and pay them for their ruthlessness and avarice. Those that enter into the gang system rarely ever leave, unless it is in an expensive casket, probably paid for by the gang.
Police say that they have stepped up patrols in the gang and drug ridden neighborhoods.
And yet the killings go on.