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  • Essay / What are the pros and cons of the single system theory

    It was developed after seeing several family members incarcerated. As a child, I witnessed many negative police interactions and brutality within my own community. Government officials running for a political campaign would come to our neighborhood to take photos with young people and use them in their political campaign, but never really interacted or understood our concerns. I became one of the few anomalies in my community. Because all the negative I experienced in my community didn't distract from my expectations of graduating high school and even completing it a year early. The benefit of one system is that it would pair individual police officers and local government officials such as mayors and county commissioners with young people, allowing them to mentor children from disadvantaged communities. This would allow children from broken communities and raised in a single-parent home to repair the breach caused by the abandonment of that missing parent. By allowing communities as a whole to participate in the development of that child, an old African proverb says: “It takes a village to raise a child.” Each month, a counselor met with this child to review and document progress. The downside would be the time this research would take. Another problem would be the challenge of getting students to open up and create connections with different