http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2008/05/28/the-inconvenient-truth-about-anti-gang-legislation/ The Progressive Pulse is a blog about the issues, debates, and people that affect North Carolina public policy. As with the organization that sponsors it, NC Policy Watch, its ultimate objective is to improve the quality of life in the state, in this case by promoting the development of an informed, energetic and progressive online community. The Progressive Pulse welcomes the contributions of interested people of all points of view provided they are of a reasonable length, have some relevance to issues of North Carolina public policy and abide by the common rules of online etiquette (i.e., please avoid inappropriate language and show a measure of respect for others --even the John Locke Foundation). To post a comment, simply click the comment line then provide your name and email. Your email address will not be collected or shared. If you would like to be contributing writer, please send your post to info@ncpolicywatch.com with 'blog' in the subject line. If the post meets with our criteria (has a progressive perspective and is relative to our state), we will publish it. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:41:10 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2008/05/28/the-inconvenient-truth-about-anti-gang-legislation/comment-page-1/#comment-10734 Rob Schofield Wed, 28 May 2008 13:38:30 +0000 http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/?p=1134#comment-10734 The House failed to "concur" in the Senate's version of the bill yesterday, so it's probably headed to a conference committee so that a final draft can be put together. There's some hope that the new version will be slightly improved, but the bottom line is likely to remain the same: more teens chucked in jail so that they can be trained as career criminals and far too litle money for real, up-front intervention programs. The House failed to “concur” in the Senate’s version of the bill yesterday, so it’s probably headed to a conference committee so that a final draft can be put together. There’s some hope that the new version will be slightly improved, but the bottom line is likely to remain the same: more teens chucked in jail so that they can be trained as career criminals and far too litle money for real, up-front intervention programs.

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