Louisville Gangs (safest neighborhood, school, gated community)

[natewood3]

tigerlilly,

I basically agreed with everything you said. So, where would you suggest we start in trying to help clean up and make the West End a better place to live?

I have driven through all of the West End several times, and I cannot say I was scared. I had a map, and I was nervous a little when some of the roads I expected to turn on were one ways, but I wasn't scared. We were stared at pretty hard in a few places around 22nd and Hale Street, but I didn't feel as though they were going to pull a gun and shoot at us because we were driving through...

I will be helping with a program starting this year that works with 12-16 yr old males from the West End who have been in some kind of trouble with the law. I hope to be able to contribute something to making the West End a better place, and I hope to be able to at least influence some of the youth with whom I develop relationships. I am sure I will get to learn alot more about the West End of Louisville as I speak with these youth...

[12GO]

Originally Posted by mdawg

Joseph_2010, if the only way you are judging how much crime louisville has just by watching the news, you are an idiot. OF COURSE the news is going to cover crimes, because they are not the norm. If homicides and shootings, ect. were a normal part of life here, do you really think the news would report on them as much as they do now? NO. Have you even BEEN to louisville recently or are you just going off of your memory from 10+ years ago, which you may want to have checked becuase it seems like it has gone terribly bad, because there is NO WAY you can truthfully say Louisville has more crimes then Detroit, come on. If anyone believes this guy, i feel bad for you.

You mean Detroit has competition for crimes? No way. Just passing thru both and spending time in both cities, I feel safe in Louisville. I've never felt even close to safe in Detroit!

[mrkool]

Originally Posted by DOMO

doomsquad is kool with vpc...acually they 2gether...taliban is not kool with cng or bnc! Taliban is kool with vvpc and doomsquad...cng and bnc are together
and bnc is badd newz clique

What the eff is this? Ebonics??

[natewood3]

mrkool,

Are you being sarcastic or do you really not know what it says?

[tigerlillydownunder]

Hi natewood3,

I smell some sarcasm coming from mrkool's post--but I wouldn't say it's malicious; perhaps he's just trying to add some levity...?

Well, in defining where to start--do you mean like locality, or demographically? Locality, I would have to give that more consideration--but the general concensus is West End/Downtown/South/Southwest are the troubled areas. Demographically--I think it's great that you are working with young but mature people--who will be the leaders in charge of the future--to steer them in the right directions. There is a lot of mistaken assumptions that kids who are dabbling in trouble now are just destined for the State Penn in the future.

And that's the key--they have to want to.

Most kids who get into trouble, are really bored with nothing positive to focus on (lets face it, a lot of kids don't have a lot of positives in their lives; some are just "lost" and looking for something but not knowing what it is they are necessarily looking for. They just lose their way. They need a map and good sound directions, in a matter of speaking, just like any person who's lost and in an area that can be uncertain. and then there are some kids who just fall into trouble at every turn without meaning to. The rest go looking for trouble to find trouble.

But I think that anyone can turn over a new leaf any time they want to, and that as long as someone is willing to hold out hope, that there is no such thing as a lost cause. It only takes one bright spark to start a fire you know.

I'm looking at doing some volunteer work where I am living now, with the local indiginous communities; every town, city and country have places that can use a helping hand; charity begins at home, and home is whatever you define it. At any rate, every journey begins with one small step!

Boy I'm just full of clichés tonight!

good luck with your project and do keep us posted! I may live in Austrlia, but I still love Louisville!

Cheers!

[FLAN_502]

Tha gangs are growing in louisville.there is now gangs who fight alot in tha camp taylor area off of poplar level road.

[FLAN_502]

some of tha neighborhood are crips and some are bloods.i myself live in tha blood area of CT. Its not so bad yet but ther are a few ms-13 members that have moved into tha area.

[anewface]

I'm from Victory Park and have lived all my life. I have family in the eastend as well. It seems to me that alot of people are asking the wrong people about these gangs. As a Victory Park Crip I know for a fact that these gang are not fake. Ask anyone who is really out there like some of these teens. I not saying that all of the bloods and crips here in louisville are real. But there are alot that are real and can tell you the history and the origin of whatever one might claim. There seem to be alot of people out there whom are sitting at home and don't know a thing. about us. I can't tell ya'll to much, but I can tell ya'll that some of these gangs where brought here by actual westcoast gang members. Like the Eight-Tre crips, the 100's Crips, The 151 Piru Bloods and the Eastside MOB Piru Bloods. Truthfully it's a shame that we can go to these set and some have and these L.A. gang can identify us as being from a Louisville street gang which was started there but people from our own city can't. And I think thats the problem. Most of these gang are right in front of your faces. Most of ya'll just look the other way until something happens, then ya'll want to say we got to stop this violence Since what happen back in the day with my hood alot of members I know from and around my set are laying low. Not because there scared but because the old saying is you can't catch what you can't see. Or in alot of ya'lls case what ya'll are looking over. Matter of fact some are making things happen.(Two examples) Police was trying to get some info from a person whos name I won't say, but anyway they took him threw the hood with the back windows down so everone could see him then circled back and drop him off by an alleyway. A few days lter he was dead. Second a lady from New Albany Ind. was on 18th street at thortons paying for some gas, when some gangs members pulled next to her playing there music throwing up sign. She got mad and started saying how fake there where and they was a bunch of this and that. They beat her almost to death. Who knows if the police didn't do that boy like that he might be alive today. Or if that lady would have not got sent to the hospital. I'm not justiying what anyone has done, but if you look at some of these gang member have already asked for help before things got to deep. It's those who prejudge, turn the other cheek, then want to complain when he or she commit a serious crime in there neighborhood. It's been many of times that I've tried to do right and get a job and go to school and have had people turn me down because of my past. Tell me what is a person like me suppose do when they fell that noone cares. I'm 27 now. But since the age of thirteen til I got old enough to move out me and my big brother was the man of our house. When we went outside we were the one who locked the house up and took care of our little brothers(There's eight boy and one girl). While my dad was gone and my mom where somewhere turning tricks trying get her next piece of crack. So while ya'll call us fake and this and that. It sure was real for me and my brothers. Very real. So real that we would anything to get our next dollar to feed us, since nobody would help us.

[backwards nose]

Cincy made something like 30 taliban arrest a few months ago. I didn't know they were in Louisville too.

[$Keenan$]

Those are most of the gangs but you forgot slit throat crips. The cops need to get ahead because theres lots of kids in Louisville selling drugs like crazy