| Show 1 - A30 I COMMENTARY The Salt Lake Tribune P Sunday November 14 1993 : I Youth Gangs Are Street Merchants of Drug Trade pect of the drug trade Once drugs reach their destination in the United States they mast be distributed to groups who control large distribution areas These in turn distribute to a number of intermediate dealers who distribute to various street dealers who distribute to gang leaders and then to gang members The base of the pyramid is gang members and users They can do the crime without doing the time They have access to the customers the youth of America They use various methods to increase gang membership that can impact any neighborhood or family It's a myth that poverty or lack of parental supervision are the main reasons for gang membership Gangs use sex friendship power and drugs as enticements and they use outright intimidation and fear The purpose of gangs is to distribute drugs but they take on a dimension of their own Violence and fear control and recruit new members Death is the only way to leave a gang because only those who profit from their activities or crazy sociopaths would want to remain in one Crimes are ordered and carried out because noncompliance means death or By Xavier Narutowicz I'm not sure it is correct but maybe we should look at the nation's surge in gang acthity from another perspective Maybe it is the outgrowth of the RICO law (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organintions Act) which has been so effective in prosecuting organized crime Maybe criminals are now using our youth to insulate themselves even further from prosecution Youth gangs have always existed From innocuous clubs to er-city turf battles and rumbles they are older than the musical "West Side Story" but they have never existed in their present structure and violent activity They are now a tool of organized crime The drug trade is structured like any successful business activity Producer cartels collaborate with organized crime in this country to import drugs They use various ways that only an organized powerful wealthy group of individuals could accomplish They control avenues of transportation inspection and law enforcement agencies or else they would not be able to operate as effectively as they do Import operations are only one elaborate as inn- pain Turf battles and battles with other gangs are basically over money and markets but after a while they are recreational activity encouraged to emphasize the violent intimidation practices that perpetuate membership enhance recruitment and paralyze the community with fear It is a game and a power high that keep the police courts and society busy with mayhem The juvenile courts accommodate the process by re- turning chronic offenders to neighborhoods and schools Not many individuals would be capable of committing the heinous violence that we witness in the media each day without the impact of drugs Paul Cromwell and Roger Dunham of Miami collected urine samples of 2500 offenders and found 80 percent to be drug abusers Illicit drugs are the problem more succinctly the money they generate is the problem Money is a primal value in American society it is a temptation few can resist If Mr Cromwell's statistics are true and pervasive 80 percent of the murders violence crime and mayhem in our society schools and neighborhoods is generated Want Healthy Retirement? Keep Working most baby boomers will begin to hanker for their Social Security checks in large numbers will be more than 50 million Meanwhile overall population will have increased to only about four times the number in 1900 meaning that the number of people over 65 is growing at about four to five times the rate of the population in general The basic problem is that we will have an increasingly older sicker and more dependent population and an increasingly smaller work base It's not nice to say this and one could be accused of ageism What is the solution? A national effort to maintain function People who retire earlier than they psychologically have to who adopt an entitlement mentalrestaurant ity who substitute TV and a and exdiet for work home cooking ercise are people who get sick fall into a pattern of spiraling dependency and eventually will bankrupt this nation I would like to make this proposal: If you are over 65 and in passably good health consider yourself obligated to make a contribution to society Sure you have arthritis but your arthritis will become better if you get out there and get busy So will your diabetes hypertension and depression Volunteer and paid jobs are all over the place Just look at the e center paper call your local cancer society or nursing home It isn't fair to make younger citizens assume so much responsibility for the care of the "entitled" even if they are a politically strong and threatening bloc of voters Eventually we will have to pay for our demographic situation and the earlier we face up to it the less catastrophic will be the results By Katherine Dowling FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES It's the demography stupid! No one wants to talk about it We guard against examining the issue with the ferocity of a Victorian matron denying knowledge of sex to her 11 children President Clinton his Republican compatriots and everybody else in the United States are dealing with the phenomenal consequences of the recent increase in average life span We have social institutions and expectations however which are still rooted in 19thcentury longevity tables And the result of our failure to acknowledge the dragon at our doorstep will soon be catastrophic In the 1930s when Social Security was created t was only a the average life span after Few so female rewomen of worked years couple tirement at 62 was chivalrously proffered and men were able to retire three years later Nowadays the man can expect 15 more years average of life and the average woman an additional 19 years Maximum monthly Social Security payments to an individual are currently more than $1100 Suppose a woman is entitled to $1000 a month and lives the statistically allotted 19 years following retirement at age 65 She will cost us more than increases — if $220000 exclusive of she stays completely well Illness is a reality of the aging process and the annual mean sum spent for the health care of each older American is more than $5000 (Younger persons need about $1290 per year for health care allotments and including pregnancy care child-carthe care of the congenitally ill) Should our hypothetical woman retiree have medical expenses factored in her retirement will cost us more than $320000 Whereas in 1900 the senior population numbered only 31 million the senior population in 2010 when high-calor- ie rei-remen- ld cost-of-livin- day-car- g e Katherine of family California to Raise a Common Carrier Invites Articles the money earned in the drug trade and the need for money to by buy drugs The only way to divorce money from drugs is legalization and the attendant losses that will entail We live in a free society and we can't save each fool from his own destructive tendencies We can make society safe and more productive and use the resources saved by decreased crime and violence and their attendant expenses on education and human development Of course we could believe in the Tooth Fairy! i te: : ar co - sa 1 I t sb re 114 fa I Material should be mailed to Common Carrier The Salt Lake Tribune PO Bon 867 Salt Lake City Ctab f r t Sint la th la culed even as we succumb to its effects rectness the quiet wisdom that it most needs to hear God has continually offered the abstract spiritual laws that should govern our behavior yet instead of incorporating God in our activities in search of his sustaining wisdom we reject him and expel him from our most important institutions The very idea that godlessness is a cause of American malaise is ridi from its insufferable intellectually bankrupt intelligentsia and their abhorrent value systems Americans must use their innate discernment choose wisely the voices that they listen to and not silence through political cor i well-bein- O America suffers Basically Spiegel school prychologist and former Stare Department emplopre and Wi chael Wright director of the Earth Science Laboratory L'aiversity of Utah Research Institute Articles need not be prokssionally prepared but should tt no longer than 900 words and be typed and double spaced They should pertain to the ecoof nomic political and sociol the intermountain Ares Articles should be timely have 4 basic idea promote dialogue and be challenging "open ktters" are not acceptabla Opinions erpressed in Common Carrier do not necessanly reflect those of The Salt Lake 'Mimi) or the Common Carrier Board of Lay Editors Articles in this department am selected by a fi board of lay editors which operates independently of The Tribune editorial and reportorial pohcies Common Carrier board members includ Johnnie Mae Martin case manager for youth corrections ix the Utah Deportment of Corrections Roselyn Diu chart former president of the Bountiful League of Women Voters Ken Zenger retired Utah coordinator for the American Bert Federation of Teachers AFL-CI- WI 1 Today's Common Carrier author Is Xavier Narutowicz 8525 S Daneborg Dr Salt Lake City Utah 84121 Mr Narutowicz is a native of Maryland who holds a degree in business from the University of Miami and served in the Peace Corps in Honduras Sexual Harassment Cases Will Go to)Juries The sexual harassment case decided by the US Supreme Court this week Harris vs Forklift Systems Inc was remarkable for a number of reasons It was decided with record swiftness the case had been argued less than a month ago I don't know of any major case that has gone from oral argument to written opinion that fast Such speed could only have been possible if the justices were unanimous in their opinion which they were but also were unanimously certain about the underlying principles of law There couldn't have been any questioning at all of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's written opin- Point of Law McDonough i justices said there are certain behaviors on the job that we simply will not put up with The Harris opinion held that the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and by extension all lower courts who had imposed such restrictions was wrong in saying that women must show psychological harm resulting from a sexually "hostile" work environment in order to maintain a lawsuit for sexual harassment in violation of federal civil rights laws A simple set of rules as to what is and what isn't permissible which business groups had urged the court to adopt was rejected in favor of instructions to lower courts to look at the totality of the circumstances of each case to decide or more importantly let the jury decide whether a reasonable person would find sexual played such "cute" games as asking Ms Harris to get change out of his front pocket suggesting that they negotiate her raise at a motel and calling her a "dumb: ass woman" There's an anatomi: cal word for guys who behave like the Forklift Systems' president but they won't let me put it in print I would have enjoyed seeing an opinion in this case from the court's expert in the field Justice Clarence Thomas but alas he kept his mouth shut at opinion-writin- g time as he had done dun: ing the presentation of oral argW ments last month Edward McDonough is a lawyer' practicing in Salt Lake City Point of Law is published for informapurposes only and should not be used as legal advice You should see your own lawyer for specific legal opinion ----1 E Ft! 1 I riii tfa IIfiA4 !Ica Li:73 ilk fo Q9 17A :r5ilailull I defendant forklift company - laying down of the law on the question Read my lipstick the medicine at the University of Southern School of Medicine and the author of How Large Family (Collier 1991) Edward ww enough to circulate alternative points of view The case was a first in another way Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's concurring opinion was the first opinion she has written since joining the court That makes the case the first US Supreme Court case in which the main opinion and a concurring opinion were written by women But more importantly the Harris case only the second US Supreme Court case to look at the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace is an absolutely kii - employer-defendant- ion there hasn't been time Dowling is a clinical associate professor As a practical matter this means that few cases will be decided summarily by judges and most sexual harassment cases will go to the jury And that means big s trouble for And that means employers who know what is good for them will clamp a swift and tight lid on all sexual innuendo horseplay The facts of the case warranted the result The president of the 1 e(IIN Lamm itult19 ye 1 210: 171 7firli 1 - y rigiqqKuutes Cra'an01100 th th no wc se: ooteiggiANAMORna-W1001014- (1 c - ( I14-::--4- ADDrilONAL 1101ION SENSOR 1 offers so much yet costs so little y Chek-Worth- The ultimate in financial convenience An instant source of ready credit where you can use your checks anywhere anytime you want more money You can write as many checks as you want up to your authorized credit limit and the best part is you only pay interest on the money you d use You control your credit depending upon the check Chek-Worth- y Chek-Worth- amounts you write You decide with Don't miss out on Chek-Worth- Chek-Worth- y Call or stop by our office today to put y to work for you! 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