Matt Smith was a Vice President at RGP. He shared his thoughts about: the genesis of the gangs, challenging socio-economic systemic issues, and proffered top down solutions to meet the energy from the ongoing bottom up engagement.


"I think when it's tangential, when it doesn't really touch you at home, it's a concept, and then as kids or young adults, you start to look for reasons why, why was there a Watts riot, why the uproar about Rodney King. It must make logical sense, there must be some justifications to that. There is something going on in that world that they are doing wrong." Matt Smith