Personal Narrative: Bettering Our Community

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Bettering Our Community No neighborhood is perfect there is always something that is able to be bettered. With our neighborhood, Floyd, we can do a better job of getting teens off the streets at night to help keep them out of trouble. Floyd has a drug problem and yet most try to hid it we can’t anymore. One way we can try and get teens off the streets and away from the thought of doing drugs is by having more police officers or setting a curfew and have officers enforce it. If Floyd doesn’t want to spend money on putting more officers on the streets they could always just close off the back alleyways where most of the drugs are dealt to help and reduce them. Floyd has tried to pretend and hid the fact that there are so many drug users and I didn't realize how bad everything was until this year when I got to the high school. About eighty percent of the upper classmen either are going to, are right now, or have used drugs since their eighth grade year. It shouldn’t be that way it should be less than ten percent if any at all. We need to start doing something about it before the upcoming high schoolers and the eighth graders this year get into those bad habits and keep up this chain that needs to be …show more content…

At this moment in time there are not many cops on the streets or even just driving around, you might see one every once a while in the mornings outside of the elementary schools and every school has a resource officer but that’s at school what about what happens after school or before? Only the teens that these things or are involved with them know everything. If we had more cops on the streets watching what kids are doing after school, in town, then they will most likely start noticing all the people that have been right in front of them destroying their community. We might be able to stop everything before it’s too late or before it gets

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