After a couple of years, I would run for the town board. Then county council. Poor kid done well comes back to give back. In the city, I have a small voice, but here I could sway the conversation: More buses! More schoolteachers! More social workers! In fact, it was around then that the incidence of gang-related crime increased, mostly in the surrounding towns, but the resulting fear had made everyone more conservative. As a pillar of this community, I could have served as a counterexample—the gangs are mostly made up of Central Americans—and contributed to more productive solutions to crime.
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