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The violence that Raheem Ramirez tried to escape caught up with him on a Roxbury street
By adamg on Sat, 07/04/2015 - 11:39am
In 2011, when he was just 18, Rahim Ramirez was caught with a gun in Dorchester. Earlier this year, after his release from prison, and on learning his friend, Alex DoSouto, had been shot to death, he signed up for a city program called Operation Exit, aimed at getting criminal "impact players" into jobs and off the streets through a construction apprentice program.
The Herald reports he dropped out of the program.
Not long after he was fatally shot on Greenville Street Thursday night, police arrested two men spotted fleeing the area. The two have been charged for possession of the gun police found, but police continue to investigate the murder and have yet to charge them with it.
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A better solution?
This always seems to be the same story with the majority of people coming back into the community after serving a jail sentence and it's sad to hear. Understanding that it's a two way street and the person involved in whatever it is has to want to change there life, I believe these programs such as "operation exit" need to be placed on the outskirts of the city where "at risk" felons who would want to change their lives around can go to without worrying about having to take public transportation or going into a community they have had problems with or bumping into friends with a negative impact on their lives and hanging around with them instead of heading to their program for the day. Mayor Walsh if you want to back these programs make it worth the money and get people who served their time out of their comfort zones where they could focus and learn in peace without having to worry about what's going on outside those doors, what sense does it make to put them in programs around the same areas the crime was committed in.
Hard to say.
It's possible that some kind of complete break could help--like if you swooped these guys up and took them to the woods in New Hampshire for some kind of retreat/boot camp/chance to get outside their own neighborhood. A lot of kids like this have such a confined idea of the world and their possible place in it. And yet at some point they have to take that back to where they actually live. It's heartbreaking though when you read stories about this--and Jonathan Dos Santos who was being pressured to join a gang--when everything you know, friends, school, family, is enmeshed in this stuff, it's hard to find a way out.
Man yu are so right, Raheem
Man yu are so right, Raheem dropped out of the last program cycle and i think it was for that exact reason, he wanted to get away but attending a program thats based in and around the same setting where he was getting into trouble, theres alot of these recently released guys that WANT to change but the environment they live in, they seem to become trapped, no funds to move out, so they are in a way forced to stay snd eventually it catches up to them and its sad man it really is dude just came home after completing a four yr sentence for weapons charges and here he is tryna bounce into something positive and these two jackasses think they had the right to do what they did
...trying to escape?
The title of this article is misleading. He dropped out of the program, that seems more to me like he wasn't "trying to escape" any of the gang lifestyle and that joining that program was probably part of what I imagine were the conditions for his probably early release on a gun charge by a liberal judge/probation department.
My statements above are just guesses, but they are probably right. Happy 4th!
Or you could probably be wrong
Read the Operation Exit link. He signed up for the program because of a chance encounter in Dorchester. So he did try. No, he didn't succeed, obviously, but we really don't know why.
FEMA
Better redraw Roslindale flood maps - it'll be overwhelmed by a red tide from admin's bleeding heart long before global warming finally gets to it.
Tested by an earlier flood
The excessive torrent of bullshit flooding from Anon Cowards on this board has more than tested those projections.