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T he images saturate television,
-cinema and musicLchikiren not -
even old enough to drive a car
are carrying guns to school and are
slain in their neighborhoods by rival
k The epidemic of youth violence
inTexas might have started in big
cities like Houston, Dallas and
San Antonio, but Patrol Sgt.
Charles Fleeger of the College
— Station Police DepaTTment said'
the problem is not limited to
urban areas.
•'You th violence is a prob-
- lem everywhere, ” Fleeger
said. ''It’s something we’re not
immune from, although some
times we’d like to think so,”
Although not all youth vio
lence is gang-related, the pres
ence of gangs is palpable in Col
lege Station, Fleeger said, -
"We do have some gang activity,
: the extent of which is not really
known,” he said. "By their very na-
lure, gangs are criminal offenders.”
Ronnie Jackson, youth services
coordinator for Bryan, said the city suffers
from the effect of youth and gang violence.
“The problem still exists, though not as
much as it used to,” Jackson said. "Drive-bys
and incideiitsoLpItyiiicalvioIeiicehavegone
down tremendously.”
Youth violence came to the forefront in
Bryan three years ago, he said, when two
children were slain in separate incidents.
"We lost one in a stabbing incident at a
school, one in a drive-by,” Jackson said.
Although the rate of physical violence
among youths has fallen, other forms of
youth crime still exist in and out of schools.
"There's still ahuge problem with sub
stance abuse, primarily marijuana and alco
hol,” Jackson said. “Our kids are engaging in
much more than Fm comfortable with.”
Fleeger said narcotics also are present-
among youth in College Station.
After the 1994 murders in Bryan, the
cities, schools and police departments be
gan to develop new ways to prevent other
occurrences of violence among Bryan-Col- :
lege Station youth.
“There’s a concerted effort among school
officials and nonprofit organizations,” Jack-
son said. “We’ve tried to focus on the youth.”
Evan Stein, an official at Twin City Mission
Inc., works with troubled youth at Sheltering
Aims, a Bryan youth services organization.
“1 think Bryan-College Sta
tion is doing an incredible
jt)br~Stein~satd. “There’s a lot
of collaboration here. Politics
don’t get in the way like it does-
in theEig cities.”
Counselors at Sheltering Arms
work withrunaways, truants and”
first-time criminal offenders,
Stein said. -
“We work on role-playing,
on appropriate ways to deal
with anger,” he said.
Sheltering Arms is one of
many charitable organiza- —~
lions in Bryan-College Station
which is dedicated to dealing
with at-risk youth, Jackson said.
“We Jiave -prevention pro
grams through Project Unity
and the Boys’ and Girls’ Club,’
Jackson said. “Through collabora
live programs, we’re continuing to
curtail ihe problem of yonth violence
in the Brazos Valley.”
,.- -Police departinents and--schools
work together to get children involved
in anti-violence - and anti-drug pro
grams, he said.
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