Ideas to fix gang violence in Pasadena

(Via Grrlie) Pasadena Weekly has this column from a former weekly writer and now inmate. He dismisses this aspect of dealing with the gang violence in Pasadena:
"Leave out of the equation law enforcement, courts, the probation department, schools and all the phony nonprofit agencies, because all you will get is lip service and more “dialogue.”
First, I think his credibility would be higher if he wasn't in jail for a "drug-related attempted robbery." Two, please give me an example where all of those agencies above weren't part of the plan and the plan worked. Still the article has some solid ideas from a man who should know and one who apparently doesn't take his own advice.