Community as issue essay 2

Massimo Sarracino
10/2/14
Professor Young
Engw 1100
Community as Issue Essay 2

Taking Action

“Do you hear that noise dude?” “Yeah, it sounds like it’s coming from that house down the block.” says my friend Mike. “Thats the house that all the high school freshmen hang out.” I replied. “Thats a bad scene.” So in my community of Lyndhurst, there is a problem with underage drinking and drug use. This problem has started about 5 years ago when I was attending Roosevelt Elementary School. There is always a group of kids that like to hang around the town park or at the basketball courts drinking or smoking something. The town does not do much to stop this. The Lyndhurst chief of police should have a security guard around the perimeter of the basketball court and the town park before someone gets hurt and it is too late. It would help to keep the delinquents out of the area and make people feel safe. It would also help kids get more focused on school and get a better education.
The township of Lyndhurst New Jersey is just like any other, full of people and schools. But the one true epidemic that is being ignored rather than solved is the problem with underage drinking and drug use. There are not many people in the town that are a part of this group but the few that are are reckless. They will do anything for attention and have no regards for anybody around them. It has to start with the people of the town coming forward to the town with this issue. That is the only true way that it will get resolved and things will go back to normal without drug dealing going on and crimes being commited.
In Valerie Kinloch’s article, Khaleeq is talking about how his is going to struggle documenting in the Frederick Douglass Projects because it is filled with “people who don’t seem to care, who throw paper on the ground, who sell drugs, who just hang out.” says Khaleeq. The issue in my community relates to the one shown in the article. Both Lyndhurst and the Frederick Douglass Projects have a problem with drugs and people loitering or hanging out. In my community it feels like a place where nobody wants to be or be seen.
The Lyndhurst Police Department must take action and enforce stricter laws and higher penalty for breaking the law in order to get the kids in my community to act responsibly.This will not only take the kids off of the streets and make people feel better but it will also help the kids stay more focused on school. If they are always on the streets and hanging out they are not concentrated on their school work at all, especially when they are drinking and doing drugs. It is not too late, the kids can still get help and be put back into school to further their education. That would be the best thing to do to fix this everlasting problem and to help kids get back onto the right path.
In conclusion, The really big dilemma in my community is underage drinking and drug use. There are many ways to stop this action but one way to do it is to get the police involved and have all the kids get help. This would lead to them going back to school and furthering their educations. The Lyndhurst Police Department needs to set forth stricter laws and greater punishments to break these kids of their bad habits. There will hopefully be a day that the delinquents will be removed from loitering around the town. Until then the community should get together as a whole to figure out a way that it could be stopped.








































Works Cited



Kinloch, Valerie. “Harlem, Art, and Literacy and Documenting
‘Harlem Is Art’/’Harlem as Art’”
Teaching Developmental Writitng Ed.
Susan Naomi Bernstein. fourth Edition
Boston Bedford, 2013. 147-160
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