Yes on Prop 6 Multimedia, what the videos say

I can’t honestly say that I listen to the radio too often, however, this weekend I was lucky enough to tune into K-EARTH 101. To my surprise, a yes on proposition 6 commercial ad aired. After that I decided to attempt to find the commercial online, and failed to find it, but I was still curious…

I visited the Safe Neighborhood Act- Yes on Prop 6 website and decided to watch some of their multimedia videos provided. The videos are excellent, the entire website is phenomenal. Chapter 1 plays wonderful and entertaining folk music to juxtapose the horrible gang violence in our communities. The purpose is specific: addressing gangs in urban cities. Chapter 2 is even better than the first; it instills fear regarding the family safety. According to this clever video, businesses will close and good families will move out. So basically, it you believe in safety and prosperity, you will vote in favor of proposition.

Something that I have noticed in lots of these videos, which I think is hilarious, is that they consistently include black families. Wait, it’s not done in a manner that portrays blacks in a dangerous and violent manner, some of their short videos illustrate how blacks are forced to leave do to excessive violence in the community and how blacks will benefit and live happily if the proposition succeeds. I just think it is funny how the proposition clearly aims to imprison certain groups so they purposefully include that groups into most of their videos in a positive way.

Chapter 6 (or video 6) really nails down some of the ways this proposition will supposedly protect citizens. One such measure specified is the fact that anyone who receives public housing assistance and is caught selling drugs will be removed from public housing. This, however, is not the full extent of it. What the video does NOT address is the fact that public housing units will be subject to background checks. Not only this, but entire families will be evicted from their unit if any member of that family is convicted of such a crime.

The purpose for these searches is that they are theoretically supposed to place more accountability on the families. This means that if a person is aware of the negative consequences their actions will have towards their families, then crime will reduce. The issue with this is the fact that such a measure proposes that crimes are all committed with malicious intentions. Indeed, crimes negatively affect people, even those not directly related to them; however, crimes occur for a number of reasons.

For now, I will leave it at that. This is a necessary issue that should be addressed further, but the clips this website presents are pretty interesting- especially some of the music. There are 7 chapters (or 7 videos) under the tab “multimedia.”

Please visit them at http://www.safeneighborhoodsact.com/Multimedia/Video/tabid/65/Default.aspx