blog #8 - In my honest opinion

Everyday we all hear about local, US, and world news whether it directly relates to you personally, or outside your environment. I grew up in the city of Richmond. If you’re familiar with the Bay Area you'd understand that Richmond has the least best known reputation. This city is known for violence and negative crimes. With great consideration and appreciation, my parents were lucky enough to not bring around these negative environments. But every other day, you hear in the news about teenage crimes. As the years have passed by, you would think that teen crimes would disappear, and they would finally learn that crime is honestly not the solution.
These articles all include teen crimes. These articles make me boil so much because you would think young adult would be smart enough to make better decisions. Their lives are still so young and still have so much to look forward. Unfortunately, for some teens, their lives have to be cut short, and other’s lives are wasted in time stuck in prison. Hearing about teen crimes always makes me concerned because I do have a younger brother that is 18 years old and may still be immature in certain decisions. All these teens have families and at least one person that truly care for them.
Just within the past week, I came across 3 different articles that related to teen crimes, especially in areas I grew up around. The first article I noticed was about a shooting in Oakland. Oakland is also known for its violent crimes and downtown shootings. Honestly, reading this article was no surprise. We hear about crime and violence in this city more often than you can ever imagine. This article was about a 14 year old boy who was shot down by supposedly gang members and investigators are on the look out for these suspects.
The next article also relates to another shooting. This time, this took place in the city of Hercules, just about 5 minutes away from Richmond. Hercules is known for very rare violent crimes. But recently within the past few years, as more teens have flooded the city of Hercules, more crimes have been occurring. Hercules would be last city to have a shooting, and hearing about it, made me concerned. A shooting happened at a house party that broke into a riot and 2 teens were injured, but recovered from the bullet wounds.

Lastly, this next article relates to an event that occurred last year but now 2 guys were pleaded to no contest receiving a 25 years life prison and 15 years for the other person. These 2 guys were guilty to first and second degree murder to a 16 year old boy.
If only teens understand the true meaning to life. That violence, honestly, is not worth it.