Teen Violence in Milwaukee?

While i was reading the chapter on Teen Bashing, i couldn't help think about what kind of violence, in these over-aggergerted statics on teen violence, is applicable to Milwaukee, or Wisconsin in general? The chapter said that in 1993, "350,000 juviniles were arrested violent felonies and misdemeanors," (130). Now if we just divide that equally between each state, which is not accuate at but just for the purpose, that means that each state had around 7000 of these cases. With such a large school district as MPS, one wonders on what kind of violence occurs in our schools. But also one needs to think not on what happens but WHY it is happening. I saw a poster around school not that long ago that said like over 100,000 people in Milwaukee each night go to sleep hungry. What does this tell us? Maybe that there is a signicant number of people in poverty and maybe thats why that number of "350,000" children is so high.
In the summer of 2007, my car was stolen down town and found with broken glass, blood and shot gun pellet holes all over the back end. The person's blood they found on the passenger seat was that of a 16 year old boy. Now everyone i talked to's first reaction was "gangs" "drugs" "Black teen" and what not. But we don't know what was in the minds of these children who took my car. We dont know what was happeining in their lives. Maybe it was an adult white who took my car, I do not know. But the mear fact that these sterotypes of a Black, male, teen was the one who stole my car just is what our news and media has burned into our brains.
While doing our personal narrative project, i found a song to add to my list that fit this chapter perfectly. Its sort of a double edged sword point of mine but here it is. In the 8th grade i was starting my whole 'rebel against society' stage. But then came Columbine and all that entailed. The song i chose was Marilyn Manson's "Beautiful People." that song describes the whole concept of popularity and the deception it delivers to people and how the "others" are out casted from the Beautiful people in their lives. But then it got blamed for the massacre that happend in Colorado. The double-edge is that it just isn't Black male teens committing violent crimes, all races are succstiable to violence. And not just the poor, or urban. Columbine was a mainly white, sub-urban town. But it does show that some teens have problems that are serious and need to be dealt with in a positive manner. Maybe if politicians and the news/media stopped blaming out side sources, like Grand Theft Auto or Marilyn Manson, for our teens' problems, some real help and guidence can be directed to more postive attitudes for teens to make a difference.
A couple questions I had were: What are out-side sources being blamed today that cause teen violence? (since Manson or 2pac or Eminem arent really anymore) and How can we use teen pop culture as a guiding light to bring positive attitudes to the rest of society?