The New Generation Wire

  In analyzing the rate of black marketing in the city of Baltimore, this will expose the rate of violent crimes that come to follow.  The city is known as one of the most dangerous cities in America over Chicago and Detroit put together. With the trafficking of various narcotics and the epidemic of opioids poisoning the city being at a record high, many children to the members of the community fall to the risks. To protect our youth from criminal opportunities, fatalities, and crossfires, it is time the community has used their voice for a better change and combat the fear of their environment. The new generation wire seems takes more parts of Baltimore every year and it is to the detriment of the livelihood in the developing futures of Baltimore. Upon various factors that contribute to the involvement of juvenile criminality, the focus of drug trafficking, school enrollment, and social influences will be primarily assessed.   Keywords:  Juvenile, violent crimes, the new generation wire.   

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Vacant housing is found to be frequent throughout Baltimore city. It is used as an economic crutch to the state. However, use of the vacant housing could bring revenue to the city or improve determinants of health by implementing community centers, recreational centers, after care programs and more. Programming for the utilization for youth could change the source of trouble finding them.

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u·ni·ty /ˈyo͞onədē/ Learn to pronounce noun 1. the state of being united or joined as a whole.

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Crimes playground

Poverty essentially homes the cycle of the primary focus. It is the result of economic failure from which everything then befalls. It is inevitable for impoverished communities to avoid crime; in common cases, they have the highest rates. The commonality of crime and other unwarranted behaviors create a social acceptability for them due to the conditions. When an individual is surrounded by poverty, it is difficult to define a sense of community because your cognitive process in a sense of survival. In terms, this is how the opioid epidemic came about. Although many suffered from poor behavioral health of engaging in substance abuse, others got involved within the business of soliciting the narcotic which was incredibly lucrative through the 1970’s and 80’s. Although through inflation rates have depleted, it remains to be a common source of quick cash in large sums. Many young people in Baltimore found this as a means to provide for themselves and for their families. This is a critical reference because a major percent of violent crimes committed are link to narcotic trafficking, whether it be homicide, assault, robbery, etc.

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Years after the completion of 12 o’ clock Boys, the protagonist; known as pug, describes mild occurrences of what it is to be a 12 o’ clock boy. The premier has created an objective but necessary conversation about similar happenings in inner-cities and what can be done to promote a better change. He goes on to mention the progress he has made as a young man with future goals and a career in mind. 

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Community Health

Youth is the primary source of determined health within an environment. Therefore, protecting our youth is essential to building a better community for the future generations to come. 

Within urbanized areas of Baltimore, kids often look up to figures outside of the familiar setting and find guidance within them that often shapes their impression of morals, values, and survival. In the premiers of the Wire and 12 o’ clock Boys, it creates the image of clear context of what is endured for our youth to be the result of acting and reacting in violence and criminality. 

The social setting push them essentially into a lifestyle in which they never got to choose. 

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Poverty is home to what befalls the people.

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Healing Baltimore

A proposed solution is the application of the Whole School Whole Community Whole Child (WSCC) model to the city.

“The WSCC model focuses its attention on the child, emphasizes a school-wide approach, and acknowledges learning, health, and the school as being a part and reflection of the local community. Schools, health agencies, parents, and communities share a common goal of supporting the health and academic achievement of adolescents. Research shows that the health of students is linked to their academic achievement. By working together, the various sectors can ensure that every young person in every school in every community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged” (CDC, 2014).

Upon the student or child being the center of primary focus within the model, changing the dynamic of the functionality of the programming to give children a voice for their own future has been measured for better retention and progress in youth. With the implementation of this model, the unity of Baltimore can be restored for a genuine sense of community and change in the dynamic of social support and tolerance.  Having common goals and social support to sustain certain things in the environment is essential for one’s development to be a contribution to the community and give back. With this understanding and setting the precedent of change for today’s youth could create a different and better world within the next 15 years.

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Efforts for solutions

John’s Hopkins has initiated a similar coordination that focuses upon an area of west Baltimore known as Park Heights. Back in 2009 the homicide rates for youth very extremely high and the area suffered from terrorism of the youth it birthed. Lower Park Heights was nominated as an mediation network in light of its outstanding issues with youth violence. Safe Streets was chosen by JHCPYV (Johns Hopkins University Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence) for the Lower Park Heights association in view of its demonstrated adequacy in other Baltimore neighborhoods. Within the range of 2007 and 2010, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore assessed the Safe Streets program in four of Baltimore's most brutal neighborhoods. Three of the four program destinations experienced huge, factually huge, program-related decreases in murders or non-lethal shootings.

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Coming together in numbers can get many things handled in a plethora of ways when there is a common issue and a common goal both locally and under the development of the state. The health of all places is assessed based on the health of women and children. With the deteriorating social determinants in Baltimore, the outlook of kids surpassing the age of 25 gets smaller and smaller unless we choose to take part in the change of the environment and create a network of safety and comfort with one another. The application of the WSCC model will assist in obtaining funding and solidarity in various forms of health through the Baltimore County School system in a formal manner to prevent the involvement of children in violence and crime.

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Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Violent crimes are defined in the UCR Program as those offenses which involve force or threat of force.

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Reference of the Wire

The subject of the detrimental show based on the realities of Baltimore City is extremely relevant today because of the recuperations the city is still making efforts of. Specifically, primary effects include the demolition of high-rise housing projects and the effects of the depleting environment. Also, the aspects of drug trafficking has shifted among the product and the epidemic upon the community. The context of the wire is taking place today amongst our younger generations within the community and essentially creates a butterfly effect upon a problematic environment. The cycles of crime and poverty in Baltimore must be stopped.

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12 O’ Clock Boys is another analysis based upon the realities of inner city kids from Baltimore, Maryland. For people from Baltimore it is a known tradition of sorts to see riders on Sundays; especially during the warmer seasons. They seem to cause a ruckus for many citizens but for a stealthy portion of youth, it is outlet that leaded to a lifestyle. It’s not a gang nor a clique, but a group of young boy’s survival and finding light at wherever their tunnel may end. 

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The video gives insight into the composition of the HBO series the Wire. This goes in to the depths of understanding the reality for many residents of Baltimore City and the lives of people that suffer at the hands of poverty and crime. A novel series in which the settings, characters, cases, situational distress in every aspect is all factual. As the show develops you see how more and more neighborhood kids get involved into the game with drug kingpins and gangsters. Many of them end up on the wrong side of homicide and violent crimes. The call it the new generation wire because the happenings within and based on the history of the show are reoccurring upon the new and future generations. 

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