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Originally Posted by 1overcosc
Kids join gangs because of social or economic circumstances. An investment in youth diversion programs and youth activities in general from the city, and investments in better mental health and child services from the province are the key. Given the disproportionate number of Indigenous and Somali youth getting involved in these things culturally relevant approaches are also a must.
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In the case of non-Indigenous kids there is definitely a "failing" at play there. (Well, there is a "failing" with Indigenous kids too, but it's of a different nature.)
Most of us are aware of analogous problems in European countries like Germany and Sweden, but oftentimes there the youths over there have spent part of their lives in an "old country" that is often an unstable war zone, and therefore have been affected psychologically by what they've seen. As a result they have difficulty adjusting to life in a peaceful western developed country with rule of law.
In Ottawa that's not really what's at play as most of the shooters and victims "known to police" were actually born in Canada or at least grew up here.
The main waves of Somali refugee arrivals were in the late 80s and into the 90s when Siad Barré was in power over there. So those young Somali origin males in Ottawa who are crime-prone are the Ottawa-raised sons and grandsons of those refugees for the most part.
A high number of perpetrators and victims also have Caribbean origins. Again, in the vast majority of cases these are kids who grew up in Ottawa (and sometimes the GTA).
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