Slog - Comments on Bad kids, Delridge http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bad_kids_delridge I recently spent a Saturday evening at the Delridge Community Center's "late night," a weekend after-hours for young people. I'd read a police report that said there had been a spate of recent assaults at the center because of a gang war between one gang with a really long name, which had been blacked out, and one with a really short name, ditto. When I called the police over there they said, "What gang war?" So I went to check it out. What I found were a bunch of kids playing basketball. I'm sure some of them were in gangs.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:49:48 -0800 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:30:08 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Edit pls. resent?

]]> Edit pls. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bad_kids_delridge#c589702 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bad_kids_delridge#c589702 City Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:05:25 -0800 Comment by fixo I think you've got East and West bass-ackwards here.

]]> fixo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bad_kids_delridge#c589726 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bad_kids_delridge#c589726 City Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:38:40 -0800 Comment by directional Beacon Hill and Cleveland High School are east of West Seattle and Delridge Way. That makes your directional references reversed.

]]> directional http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bad_kids_delridge#c589728 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bad_kids_delridge#c589728 City Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:40:14 -0800 Comment by abracapocus Kinda missed the point on this thread. I know a woman who volunteers at the Delridge Community Center in the evenings and when the appropriate staff is not around (or not paying attention), that area can get overrun by gangsters and wannabes pretty quickly.

]]> abracapocus http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bad_kids_delridge#c589731 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bad_kids_delridge#c589731 City Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:50:32 -0800 Comment by Angela Valdez Ack. Sorry. I still have to look at my hands to tell left from right.

]]> Angela Valdez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bad_kids_delridge#c589747 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bad_kids_delridge#c589747 City Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:10:01 -0800 Comment by Wendy Yeah, this used to be a rough area of town.

All the rumors were true: razor blades in pom poms during games (cutcha), stogies the size of cigars, baseball bats (beatcha), stay out of our turf.

The locals ruled. Kids, looking for an identity. People got hurt, but the smart ones learned to stay out of trouble.

And then we grew up ... wheat from chaff, those that survived went on to other areas. Big families fanned out like dandelion seeds. Most of us never looked back, until years later.

I will always wear the hood in my heart.

]]> Wendy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bad_kids_delridge#c589766 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bad_kids_delridge#c589766 City Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:30:08 -0800