{"id":2172,"date":"2010-12-03T14:27:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T19:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2010-12-03T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T19:27:42","slug":"crime-and-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2010\/12\/03\/crime-and-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime and Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the recent shock of a federal indictment of 29 Somali and Somali American individuals on sex trafficking charges, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/24\/us\/24gang.html?_r=4&amp;pagewanted=1&amp;src=twrhp\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a> reports on the Minnesota Somali community&#8217;s attempts to deal with the situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The allegations of organized trafficking, unsealed this month, were a  deep shock for the tens of thousands of Somalis in the Minneapolis area,  who fled civil war and famine to build new lives in the United States  and now wonder how some of their youths could have strayed so far. Last  week, in quiet murmurings over tea and in an emergency public meeting,  parents and elders expressed bewilderment and sometimes outrage \u2014 anger  with the authorities for not acting sooner to stop the criminals, and  with themselves for not saving their young.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment was the latest in a series of jolting revelations  starting around 2007, when a spate of deadly shootings in the Twin  Cities made it impossible to ignore the emergence of Somali gangs. Then  came the discovery that more than 20 men had returned to Somalia to  fight for Islamic extremists, bringing what many Somalis feel has been  harsh and unfair scrutiny from law enforcement and the news media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A sociologist weighs in on why this pattern of problems seems to be continuing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cawo Abdi, a Somali sociologist at the University of Minnesota,  said that past surges in concern about troubled youths had not been  followed up with money and programs to help them. \u201cThis is viewed as  such a huge scandal and outrage,\u201d she said of the new charges, \u201cthat it  has to lead to some kind of action.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/24\/us\/24gang.html?_r=4&amp;pagewanted=1&amp;src=twrhp\" target=\"_blank\">rest of the article<\/a> for discussion of some of the challenges facing Somali people in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the recent shock of a federal indictment of 29 Somali and Somali American individuals on sex trafficking charges, the New York Times reports on the Minnesota Somali community&#8217;s attempts to deal with the situation. The allegations of organized trafficking, unsealed this month, were a deep shock for the tens of thousands of Somalis in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39116,89,125,133,76,100],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-crime","tag-immigration","tag-urban","tag-violence","tag-work","tag-youth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}