If you are a part of the problem, then how can you be part of the cure?
A thing you can do if you are a part of it is that if you are trying to turn then you can take other people with you. Try to influence them to stop. A thing people must understand is that you also was or are a part of the problem so it is not only everybody else that have to change and get better it is you to.
If you dont have a choise about where you live, then how can you have a choise about what rules you live by?
Many people are growing up in poor neighbourhoods but you always have a choise and mayby everybody are in a gang and beating people up and then it can be hard but there are thousends of things you can rather do at your spear time like playing a sport or instrument or working with school if thats what you want. It is not easy but if you dont want to get into that kind of things from the start im sure there are other guys in your neighbourhood that doesn`t do this stuff.