Journal: Final Reflection

Final Reflection: Journal Week Six

Brandie Lynn Schnobrich

Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice, Walden University

CRJS-4103: Drugs, Gangs, & Organized Crime

Michael Kemp-North

August 22, 2021

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Final Reflection

Journal Week Six

August 22, 2021

Throughout the last six weeks of this course, I have remembered more gang-related situations

that have directly impacted my life, even if only minimally. The incident that I mission in week

one’s journal however affects me to this day. My friend from high school was brutally raped and

murdered over drug money owed by two gang members and one of their girlfriends from the

East St. Louis area. The gang East Side is who transports, buys, and sells the crack cocaine that

Nina had bought and owed $1000.00 for. This is a hard situation to have an answer to, as to what

could have been done differently. Nina was valedictorian the year we graduated, she was popular,

appeared to have a good head on her shoulders, and was going to be starting school in California

on an Art scholarship that fall. The summer after graduation Nina was introduced to cocaine at a

party and the spiraling downfall that happened to her for the next ten years is incomprehensible

to me. One major thing that may have prevented this horrible tragedy that happened to such a

bright, beautiful young girl should have been more drug awareness programs working with the

schools in the Southern Illinois area. Belleville, Illinois though close to East St. Louis, Illinois

was a very sheltered community until the mid to early 1990s. I think she was smart enough that

had she ever learned about the effects of drug use not just on individuals but on entire

communities she would have approached her decision to try cocaine completely differently.

P.S. I just wanted to say thank you John for your engagement with me and the other classmates

and for the knowledge you added to my learning experience.

Sincerely, Brandie Lynn

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