“A social worker who grew up in New York after emigrating from Cuba as a child was picked Tuesday by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to run the city's anti-gang programs.”
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa selected Guillermo Cespedes as the new Chief of the Los Angeles anti-gang programs. Part of Guillermo’s plan is to keep lights on in parks that are the most crime-ridden areas until midnight in order to help reduce crime and violence.During the summer Guillermo has made a huge impact in several communities. Guillermo has doubled the amount of programs in 16 parks to help keep teens and children out of the streets. The Programs help children and teens keep out of the streets by allowing them to play in sports and other activities. Guillermo has worked on helping out the minorities. Guillermo was a social worker and would help out struggling families by Calworks.
I really hope that Guillermo can keep on improving the anti-gang programs. I also hope that he can still keep helping the minority groups, Latinos and African Americans. I think it is really amazing how even though he had not been the Chief of the Los Angeles anti-gang programs he had already began to make changes in several communities. I believe that now that he is the Chief of the Los Angeles anti-gang programs he will make in greater changes and will help lower the gang rates in California.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gang-czar9-2009sep09,0,2254671.story?track=rss
It looks like Guillermo Cespedes knows what his doing. I hope that he really does make an impact especially in our communities. It's really sad to lose a close friend or family member because of gang violence. I am a proud supporter of the Los Angeles Anti-Gang programs. El Centro del Pueblo and Red Shield are great places were many of our classmates go to stay out of trouble. Hopefully in later years theres more recreations centers in our community.
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