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" Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime. "
Greg Boyle
Proactive
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Need
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" As much as I dislike the suggestion of single solutions to complex problems, jobs are as close as we will get to a single, effective answer to the enormous problem of gangs. "
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" Metro police can't infuse hope into those for whom hope is foreign. The algorithm does not exist that can heal the traumatized. Data-driven predictions won't result in the delivery of mental health services. "
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" Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God's grief and heart for us all. "
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" You are so much more than the worst thing you've ever done. "
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" Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures. "
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" What is ultimately compelling for our children in helping them conjure images of a future for themselves is our willingness to walk with them as they do it. "
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" You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear. "
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" I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los Angeles archdiocese. In 1986, I became pastor of the church. "
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" Richard Rohr is a theologian that I read. "
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" Gangs are born of a lethal absence of hope, and hope has an address: 130 W. Bruno St. in Los Angeles, CA 90012. "
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" The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the 'whole cloth' of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is 'tougher than thou.' "
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Failure
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" I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's. "
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" I didn't take my vows to the LAPD. "
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" In my barrio, jobs work and money saves lives. When I have had the funds to place a gang member on a job site and pay his salary, I've seen him stop banging. When, on the rarest of occasions, an employer has offered a job to one of these youth, I've witnessed kids suddenly have a reason to get up in the morning. "
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Job
" The powers, conditions, and desires that propel Mexicans and Central Americans into this country are so fundamental, so vast, that no action, legislative or other-wise, can discourage this flight. "
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Flight
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" I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce the cohesion of gangs and supply them oxygen. "
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" Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to? "
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" Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries. "
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" If the Los Angeles Police Department had enough officers, it could focus on one part of the community and stay there long enough to know and respect the people the officers are called on to protect and serve. "
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" All politics are local, and so in church. "
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" There is no such thing as a bad cop, only disturbing and dominant cop thinking that will invariably lead to excessive force and tragic outcomes. "
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" Anyone who knows gangs knows that lawmakers cannot conceive of a law that would lead a hard-core gang member to 'think twice.' "
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Law
Gang
" Children find themselves adrift not because the informational signposts are illegible, but because there is no one around to guide and accompany them. "
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" I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception. "
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Going
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" We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease. "
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Just
Crime
" What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it. "
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