Is that this is a raid for "show", so the principal and his friends can show how "really powerful" they are. I can hear him saying now, "Boy, we put the fear of God into those kids!"

And all of his "good kids" will now turn on him, the ones who were trying help. If he isn't fired on Monday, he'll be dead by the end of the school year.

The kids that go to this school hear gunfire every night. The school IS the absolute safest place they can be. Many of the kids here are even probably decent people, except they live in a bad neighborhood and they have to appease the alpha-male criminals to survive. If they are on drugs, it's because their "reality" is so bleak that the future in jail or juvie is an improvement.

What the police need to do (like they do in our district), is go to school, pretend to be students, participate in activities, find the alpha-male criminals who "orchestrate" most of the violence in the ghetto, and arrest and jail them, forever.

Glen Austin