the title of this article is Ending gang and youth violence a cross- Government report. the person that wrote the article is Duncan smith and the date of the article was in November 2011. The article is mostly about ending gang violence and how its not good for kids to gang bang, in life when you start gang banging, you start hanging with your friends and stop going to school and stop getting your education you will never get anywhere in life. The reason why gang bangers don't get any where in life is because they have to worry about their friends and being safe, they have to worry about not getting shot in the streets. Yes i do agree with the author, the reason why i agree with the author is because i have a lot of friends that gang bang and i don't like seeing them in this type of violence because  they friends and family could either die or get hurt