Doubts about our Community

As I'm investigating more about my community I have come to realize that there is a lot of things that I haven't thought about. I know the basic things that everyone knows and that is heard all over the news or on the internet. That the south side is a dangerous neighborhood, that there are a lot of gangs in it. There's always assaults, murders, disappearances and even robberies, and that most of that is all to blame on the gangs. I've also heard that our neighborhood is no longer safe at night because there's a lot of shootings also going around. However, what I don't know is why this all got to be this way. This neighborhood was not like this a few years ago and I would know since I've lived here for the past 15 years of my life. It was a lot safer back then and gangs were not that much of an issue and now that's all you hear about, and how kids are dying everyday because they are involved in them. Most of the times I wasn't close to the people that died but there was a case where a kid who was with me in the third grade and was murdered about four years later because he became involved in gangs, that one affected me more than other times because this time it had been someone that I had known that had been killed. Even though all of this has happened I have never really stopped to wonder why this neighborhood became this way? Why hasn't anyone tried to do anything to stop all these murders? Most of all I would like to know why haven't educators at school actually tried better to get kids out of any bad habits, like by involving them in activities that would take their minds off gangs and drugs? Why haven't parents put more attention to their kids and haven't tried better at getting them out of the dangerous path they are going down on? Not only that but, why haven't the proper authorities created more jobs to help this community? The number one cause I believe that this neighborhood became so dangerous is because truth is people have no money, and they are doing anything to seek it one way or another. So if officials know this, then why haven't they devoted more attention to this community? Instead of spending money on war, why haven't they spent it on schools and new jobs to be opened? The questions are simple but the responses can be numerous because no one really knows why anyone has not being able to make our community a better place to live in.