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Mental Health: Is Everyone In A Gang Or Motorcycle Club

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Throughout the novel there are two things that Dobyns and Johnson-Shelton want to make clear. One is that mental health is a major problem that runs through the law enforcement community and that everyone in a gang or a motorcycle club is inherently bad.
The first argument that he makes clear is that mental health is a serious issue in the law enforcement community. Many people discredit that people who enforce the law can succumb to any issues with their mental health. This is not accurate to say the least. Officers are expected to live by near impossible standards set on them by the community they police, and if one individual was to taint the job the community can flip on them and make the job of being in law enforcement tougher than it …show more content…

In the novel Jay states that he could be friends with these men if he wasn’t investigating them and if they were not doing evil things. Not everyone who does join a gang or motorcycle club are bad people and they have different reasons for joining them, though more than often this is small population that represents gang. Many join for the brotherhood or comradery that comes with it. There also different kinds of motorcycle club then the kind that was investigated throughout the novel. Many have different purposes therefore different kinds of people join different kinds of clubs. There are motorcycle clubs dedicated to religion and finding god and there are also clubs that help give back to the charity there are also those that help veterans find a sense of community again so they can transfer back into the civilian sector. In the book, we hardly see these nonviolent types of motorcycle clubs but Jay does briefly mention them. He talks about the 1 percent versus the 99 percent. This means that only one percent of riders wish harm or are a part of these dangerous clubs while the other 99 percent are normal everyday people. This shows that people who are apart of them generally do not wish harm on

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