Our neighborhood

My "little" brother and I were talking about how safe our neighborhood was now, that we have "gangsters" or whatever they want to call themselves in our neighborhood. There's been more and more police officers visiting our neighborhood more often and its pretty scary. We had one of the safest neighborhoods here in San Juan, and now its not so safe anymore. Its actually a little scary being outside when i see them walk on my street. Know our street signs are being graffitied and getting ugly and we have more and more kids running around with bandanas tied around their head.

I always wonder why it has to come this. How these kids that i saw grow up and run around all mocosillos and greñudillos, took a wrong turn in life. In the last month or so there has been a couple of fights and just today there was a chase in the back of my house. Oh yeah and they tried to steal my dads truck and they broke into a lot of plps homes and they robbed them.

I'm getting scared and theres nothing we can do about it. My little brother said the same thing, that he gets scared to even be outside and not have a care in the world, like it used to be a couple of yrs ago. Here is a teen who is the same age as all the other little kids here who turned "gangsters" and he said no to all that stuff. Which is pretty cool. I hope nothing bad ends up happening, and our peace somehow by some miracle gets restored and these little teens open their eyes before its too late. Before they say "Your only way out, is in a box"