TheStar.com: Alberta town struggles with gangs and violence

Hobbema, a once oil rich reserve of 12,000 Cree Indians south of Edmonton, Alberta, is struggling to regain control of its community from the grips of violent street gangs. Part of the Toronto Star's Crime & Punishment series, at thestar.com/crimepunish.

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• Hobbema
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• gang
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[KIHIWAK19]

@browning1231 WELL WE ALL HATE UR FAGOT ASS TO BITCH

[marcelsoosay]

makes me wanna cry for my community.

i have quite the surprize for them comming someday

[86montour]

well, where do you come from? maybe a white house with fancy thing's or maybe brought up from a ruff life?? like us Fagot asses.. where do you come off thinking your better then us, your just the same colour same damn skin and or maybe not the same as us! loosing the damn land to the white folks. Must be fun to brought up on land that aint yours!! brought to you from a cree/ shuswap NATIVE..

[Xeidasx]

NATIVES TRYING TO BE NIGGERS....... LMAO retards.....

[Mexicanmarcos]

@chestbeard -commitment to teaching?! they get free schooling man. i alone know 3 native friends plus 2 metis buds that recieved full tuition. i bachelor of english and another in aboriginal stuidies...how more commited can an agency be? the root problem IS money, its the "18 tax money". give any kid of any race $180,000, most kids would go nuts and blow it on new vehicles,cloths. welcome to canadian capitalism. "enjoy" your stay..lol

[Mexicanmarcos]

@jus4lee ...hey i could agree with some of that, and i'm the farthest thing from a "indian hater" but you tell me, what do you think would happen if i, a caucasian male, 25 yrs old, walked around Hobbema neiborhoods, trying to preach to these "gang members" about how to straighten up and fly right?? I would get my ass beat!! regardless of my good intentions. and your naive to think different.wanna make a difference?stop the"18 taxmoney) let them get jobs like the rest of the world.stats dont lie

[jus4lee]

racist should be put on a little patch of land and deal with each other, this video has nothing to do with race but a community in crisis. If you have nothing good to say about someone or something then you should keep your comments to your self maybe if more people would speak about the good things in the community things would change alot faster. As for all you Indian haters these gangs are in your communities as well so deal with them instead of coming down on the indians

[chestbeard]

Seriously, if every reserve had pigs, chickens, cows, fields full of veggies, the people would be busier, more proud of their home, and healthier. It's not going to help everything, but it would be a start.

[chestbeard]

The root problem is money, but money won't disappear from the planet tomorrow. Rounding the First Nations up and sticking them on little plots of land in free houses sounds like a good deal, but it isn't. Their governments pay white contractors and businessmen to fix their houses, streets, cars, computers, etc. If commitment were made to teaching them trades, medicine, construction, and agriculture, then they could maintain the communities we were so "nice" to build for them.

[weversonman]

All the reserves are screwed. Walk around Edmonton some day and you'll never see a native woman over 20 without at least 3 kids. They all get massive wads of money when they turn 18 and pretty much all blow it as fast as they can spend it. They don't pay taxes, they're pretty much guaranteed to be hired at any government job they apply for, but still all live in poverty. The reserve system is totally broken, unless people lives together with the rest of society they'll never succeed.

[suchanjv]

@papapumpy As a white guy I think what you said was totally fuckin stupid and wrong! and people that reply with violent comments aren't much better either. LOSERS!