Gangs are the Gadianton robers of our day.

I appreciate Michael Clara wants to become involved in helping to solve the gang problem. He is one of the leading pro-illegal immigration activists in Utah. He might start by helping to get illegal alien gang members and their families immediately deported.

Except they aren't the only ones with secret combinations.

Gangs will continue until the kids become a priority at home. If they feel loved and accepted, they will not feel the desire to go elsewhere for acceptance. Parents are too busy to put the time into their children.

Once there were the James Gang and the Wild Bunch. Then, the Black Hand and Winter Hill Gang made their marks. There are the infamous Hell's Angels. Broadway staged “Westside Story” with that classic song “America.” Today, an old hideous institution of gangs persists like fleas on the back of a dog. Gangs are as persistent and gangs are pervasive. They’re everywhere. You can’t isolate the phenomena of gangs to any race or locale. The white identity moment has the Aryan Brotherhood. Hate, fear alienation are multicultural experiences in America.

If you wanted to find out the dynamics of gangs, you would be called soft on crime. It’s elitist to believe by studying gangs you can discover causations. It’s considered crazy, if you know what causes gangs to attract people, believing you can interdict gang membership and mitigate gang crimes.

Its, limp wrist liberalism, to think part of the answer to gangs is giving kids alternatives to joining gangs.

You’re left with being punitive and reactive in your approach to you gang problems. With the police surge ends, things will be the same as they ever were.