$26 million a year fails to keep L.A.'s kids out of gangs

The L.A.Daily News reports:

Los Angeles spends $26 million a year to keep kids out of gangs or get them to renounce their affiliation, but the program is such a failure that not a single youth has ever been released from a court-imposed gang injunction, officials said Friday.

City Councilman Tony Cardenas said he was "flabbergasted" by the information, delivered during a hearing of his Ad Hoc Committee on Gang Violence and Youth Development, which hopes to evaluate the effectiveness of city anti-gang programs.

"We've been wasting a lot of money in this city," Cardenas said. "Because we have a lot of gang intervention and prevention programs to deal with these people and for us not to have success with one is just beyond me."

A great moment in Blue city America.They really know how to spend money there.What a great value for your tax dollar.