Case Study: Southern Oroville

City Heights East is divided by many different ethnicities. There is 54.3% Hispanic, 20.9% Asian, 15% Black, 7.3% White, 2.2% mixed, and 0.3% other. With this data we can see that there is is range of different ethnicities and not one fully overrides other. This is a diverse community with some great cultures throughout. With this comes crime. With a total of about 30 assaults in the past year, there needs to be a sense of community rather than a sense of territory. Within this sections it will review the cost of living, the employment rates, the school’s, and the community organization. These are all important when looking at a specific crime and how to improve it within the community.

The correlation between gangs and drugs has always been an issue for the United States government. Major cities often overlooked the problem of youth gang violence, thinking it was only a 1960’s trend. Sixty years later, gangs and drugs continue to be a problem, but in an increasing number within urban, suburban and rural areas in the United States. People may characterize this problem with words such as violence, increase drug activity, and delinquencies, but not many seem to see the bigger picture. Lack of interaction, collaboration, and strategies from law enforcement, youth centers, businesses, churches, and political icons are increasing gang violence and drug related offenses in major cities. In such cities as Chicago, minority groups are the most vulnerable to joining a gang, which then leads to an involvement with drugs; they are faced with barriers – lack of family support, poverty, segregation, unemployment, etc. An incident that happened in Chicago history is the closing of the Cabrini-Green Project, where people involved with gangs had to find a new home, scattering gang-members throughout the city, and eventually leading to their spread and growth.

A consistent trend shifting the Town of Anthony Texas, is that of youth joining gangs at a very early age, starting drugs at an early age and having babies at a very early age. The use of alcohol, marijuana, and prescription drugs, by youth in this community is growing exponentially, due mostly to the prevalence of the drug within this community. The gangs are predominately Mexican-American and Mexican national in origin and appeal to Hispanic youth. Gang activity always involves drugs. In addition, the gang violence seen in this community stems from “turf” disputes over which gang has the power to sell drugs in a particular neighborhood. The Community Relation Coalition cannot address substance abuse without addressing gang activity in the

Hi my name Daja Pulphus and I attend Bronzeville Scholastic Institute located on the southside of Chicago. There are a variety of problems in my neighborhood but the biggest problem is the gang violence. I would solve gang violence by first encouraging parents to teach their children that joining a gang can ruin lives; lead to criminal records; and, ultimately, to prison. Also, encourage schools to actively participate in identifying gang members, removing graffiti, resolving potential conflicts among gang members, and providing parents with information on gangs. If I were to invite any five people –past, present, or future–to dinner, I would invite the famous Martin Luther King because he advocated for African-Americans, women and veterans

For my final paper I am going to talk about a program that in my eyes is a great way for our youth to receive different views and healthy choices when it comes to avoiding and confronting gangs or gang members. Gang Resistance Education and Training, abbreviated G.R.E.A.T., and provides a school-based, police officer instructed program that includes classroom instruction and various learning activities. The mission of the program is to provide a range of activities to our kids to keep them away from gangs or related activity as well as educate them on competency, usefulness, and personal empowerment which will prevent them from

By resolving the panhandling issue, the major issue, you can also start eliminating some of the smaller problems. Panhandling is a serious crime because they start to harass the residents and steal money from those that have sympathy to there lies. When residents give the panhandlers money, more and more panhandlers will come in the neighborhood to seek out the same opportunities. One thing that police officers can do is meet with the residents so that they can voice their opinion about the rundown homes in the community. At this time they can also seek any suggestions on how to correct the problem. The first thing for officers to do is search these homes for squatters and criminal. They should be check to see if they have any warrants. If no warrants they are

Initially I assumed that the community did not have enough programs to reach the affected portion of the community. After my research, I found out that there are plenty of programs in English and Spanish. I though another obstacle was that classes were offered in English, which would be a problem for non-English speaking people. After further investigating, I concluded that the biggest problem was poverty. Tulare County suffers from 27.6% of poverty. With this data a social media campaign was formulated that would be beneficial to this community while also targeting the affected portion of the

On May 17th, 1912 the city of Chandler was founded in the heat of the Arizona desert. This Phoenix suburban town is home to approximately 250,000 citizens. Unfortunately, youth street gangs have been recently developing and causing a spike in criminal activity in this once safe community. Gang related violence and criminal activity drastically impacts the security of Chandler’s businesses and community members. Our community has been the victim of drive-by shootings, vehicle thefts, drugs, homicides, and other gang related criminal activity. The city of Chandler has had enough of criminal activity happening in our community. It is absolutely essential that a gang reform program is implemented in order to prevent and break this violent gang cycle. Community members, business owners, and school officials are aware of the elevated gang related criminal activity and as the head of the new gang reform program, I hope to implement new strategic programs. The gang reform program will be a three-tiered program consisting of evidence-based prevention strategies, early interventions programs, and necessary follow-up methods. It is estimated that this gang reform program will cost nearly one million dollars for implementation and startup of the gang reform program for 2016.

The last and final objective i’m going to be talking about is gangs and drugs one of the biggest problems around the world.I think that if we can stop most of the gangs and drugs are cities will be much safer and better for everyone living in them. Web.stanford.edu states that ‘’Gangs are obviously not a new phenomenon, but they are still a problem that has to be addressed. Criminal street gangs have become one of the most serious crime problems in California. Gang violence--particularly assaults, drive-by shootings, homicides, and brutal home-invasion robberies--accounts for one of the largest, single, personal threats to public safety in this state.’’ This shows that gangs cause a lot of the world’s problems and a lot of gangs bring in drug which is another world

The city of Inglewood, CA has a high population of over one-hundred thousand people. Majority of Inglewood is made up of the hispanic and african american cultures. The city is filled with crime due to the numerous gang related activities. Thankfully, I grew up in La Habra, CA as well, so I rarely witnessed all the violence that was held in Inglewood. La Habra has a population of sixty-thousand people; almost the entire population is made up of white people, followed by the hispanic/latino community. This city is the complete opposite of Inglewood. The neighborhoods in La Habra are clean and friendly, whereas Inglewood’s neighborhoods are wrecked and

The purpose of this memo is to provide an overview of the Operation Peacemaker Fellowship Program founded by the Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) in Richmond, California. The evaluation proposal will describe the program and expand on the needs of such program in this community. It will also discuss the consequences of the proposed evaluation on stakeholders who have a vested interest in seeing this program, or programs like it, succeed.

The community we decided to look at is in the north Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. The area we decided to focus on the surrounding blocks around the St. John’s Recreation center. The blocks we examine are from Utica Avenue & Albany Avenue and Park Place & Bergen Street. Our team decided to use this community due to most of the group members live and/or are familiar with this community. Being familiar with how the community used to have high crime rates, drug infested that housed many low income Black, West Indian, Jewish families to now having a decreased minority population and more upper class families are moving in. As a result more residents are being priced out of their community at an alarming rate (Chan, 2007). Crown Heights remains

But another aspect I see as being critical to the success of this program is the coming together of law enforcement, community leaders, and churches. While law enforcement alone might not make a dent, this combination can be quite effective. Community leaders I feel will make a big impact because the people will be willing to listen. In crime ridden neighborhoods people might be hesitant to listen to law enforcement because they might not be willing to trust them. But by combining the collective effort of not only law enforcement and community leaders but churches as well, you are creating this positive atmosphere that just might be able to reflect negative feelings and criminal

To begin the discussions and build a rapport with participants each listening session began with defining community and

My paper describes the four community justice models; involvement, partnership, mobilization and intermediary model. I expanded on the neighborhood watch since it is a perfect example of the mobilization model. In addition, I vouched for the involvement model as being the most effective approach to community justice strategies.