Of course the problem is very complex, but we need a multi prong strategy. We need more focus on education, increased police protection, and we need parents to get more involved before strategy strikes. If the police arrest one of our teenagers, the parents begin screaming and yelling that the cops are no good; but once something like this happens we say they aren’t doing enough.

We need to be parents to our kids, and we need to work with the police to keep our neighborhoods safe. We need to complain to 311, and we need to call the police to report suspicious activity. If we continue to accept the same behavior, we’ll keep getting the same results.

Basically it was so ironic that this young man had designed a clock to memoralize othe lost lives. Yet sad to say the clock also has another name that can be added to it. The parents truly need to go back to the old school ways of checking their kids belongings.

Look under the beds and in the closets and other nooks and crannies for guns and weapons. Most of all talk to your children and keep them in prayer. I understand that we can’t be around our children 24/7. But they must know that someone is watching over them a lot more than they think and it starts at HOME. Because it’s too late when a parent gets a call from the police to come to the morgue to identify they body of a slain loved one.