Gangs: The Fight For Gang Violence

In todays United States we have a huge problem affecting society, gangs and the violence that follows them wherever they go. These days’ gangs aren’t just compiled of grown adults, they often lure in young teens to do dirty work and to add numbers to their turf. Despite laws aimed straight at these gangs they still defy the law and wreak havoc upon the territory that they claim. The members in the gang have a gang first mentality and will do everything possible to provide for and protect their fellow members. They will very rarely snitch on their own to help put a stop to some of the meaningless crimes committed by these savages.

In Policing Gangs in America, Charles Katz and Vincent Webb describes every issue in American Gangs today. The ultimate goal of this book is how the gang officers work and the different kind of atmosphere they work in. Their job isn’t like other law enforcement jobs. It’s one of the more dangerous occupation in the Criminal Justice system. These gang officers focus on how they react to public gang issues.

Gang violence in youth has gotten to far there are more and more juveniles getting recruited by gang members in society. We here all these gang violence going on and sadly most of the gang activity that goes on is done by juveniles. Being a part of a low income society I see what kind of people are involve in gang activity and many mostly all are under age making them strive for respect with our fearing consequences. Like sated on the LAPD websites the fill us the community in on how early gangs start recruiting juveniles as described on their web site it sates “Gang involvement can begin as early as elementary school. Children as young as seven or eight years of age have been recruited to work in criminal street gangs. Many parents and educators

This week I read chapter 5 of American street gangs (old book) Tim Deleany mentioned 3 points of what happens inside a gang that many don’t know, the first point is the categories they have based on the age the recruits are, the second point is the categories they are placed in depending on the activities they are involved, the third point is the process that involves the recruitment, punishment, and leaving the gang. At the conclusion of the paper I would be providing an experience my uncle went through when he was leaving the gang.

The Blood gang seems to be dominate in in the United States. Bloods where red as their primary identifying color. The Bloods established themselves in Los Angeles, California around the West Piru Street area in the Compton section of Los Angeles. Sylvester Scott and Vincent Owens were the founders of the Bloods, and this certain gang actually started out as the "Compton Pirus." The rapid growth of the Bloods was abetted by a severe conflict between the "Compton Crips" and the "Compton Pirus," in which the Pirus were greatly outnumbered and brutally crushed. This fighting brought several sets of the Pirus together, and the Pirus subsequently joined forces with the "Laurdes Park Hustlers" and the "LA Brims." In fact, the Brims were quite eager unite forces against the Crips, who had recently murdered one of their gang members. Various other gangs around the area who had been attacked or threatened in the past by the Crips were also eager to unite the forces against them, and these gangs were united under the Blood name. "Red" gangs in the Compton refer to themselves as "Pirus,” and several other "red" gangs in the area such as the "Brims," "Bounty Hunters," "Swans," and the "Family" are known as the "Bloods." Those associated with the Bloods are fairly well recognized

Where does crime come from? I ask myself time, a time again. Over the years the crime rate has grown excessively. If it’s not law enforcement using excessive force on us, it’s gang’s members killing their own. Could it be due to growing up without one parent that had played a part of destruction? The fact that maybe the child was abused. Maybe people just want to be followers instead of leaders. This is an issue that brings concerns to me. How can we continue to have children in a society that’s not safe?

The most notable differences I see in modern day gangs compared to gangs of the past are the changes in style, organization, and criminal behaviors. In the early 1900’s during the Al Capone days, “Gangsters portrayed the image of business man, but took their style to the extremes” (Valdez, 2009). Style can vary, ranging from Zoot Suits, to the oversized khaki pants and Pendleton sweaters, which are commonly worn by Latino gang members. The style of clothing has changed, but the significance remains. The gang each member represents can be identified the clothing he or she wears.

have you ever been in a war that at the end your hurt your own kind but make friend with others. Well in this essay you will read how two girls hated each other, but later they will become close. They will both lose someone that’s close to them, but one of them loses more than others.

The purpose of this paper is to review and verify a recent study by Scott H. Decker of the University of Missouri – St. Louis, entitled Collective and Normative Features in Gang Violence (Decker & VanWinkle, 1996). The study will attempt to address why our local increase in gang violence has reached monumental heights causing an increase in gang members appearing your court.

A crew of four 15 year old neighborhood friends felt it was time to start their own gang. The now rundown city of Clarksville needed another gang like they needed another pot hole in the street. Luckily, these boys idea of being a gang did not include using violence and crime as part of their membership or so they thought. Their main goal for uniting as one was simple, do whatever they could do to come up with $1200 a piece to buy brand new four wheelers. They would often gather at their headquarters, Tim's front yard and talk for hours about the day they when they would be able to ride around town, practicing stunts in the back of Clark's supermarket. Clark's supermarket was the ideal place as there was tons of man made dirt hills thanks

It was the year 2514. New York City was in ruins and people were desperate for hope. David and Timothy were two intelligent (Adj) teenagers who were roaming the city, trying to make a life for themselves. Everything seemed completely (Adv) hopeless. The boys had grown up in a time of chaos and destruction. They felt that things would always be the same, but they wished things could be better. In their group there were others who felt like them. A secret meeting had just ended, where the group was trying to come up with ways to make a better future.

The sky was dark with only the street lights there to help me see. It was around 9:00 PM and I saw that the lights were still on inside my house. Now that meant that my parents were still up, so I knew they were going to be angry. I was hanging out with some friends and just didn’t want any of it from my parents. I opened the door and the second I stepped into the house, my mom started yelling.

Everyone is well aware of gangs and gang violence. Street gangs differ from organized crime such as mobs and mafias. Street gangs commit a lot more senseless crimes without reason. A murder can take place for something as simple as stepping on ones shoe or looking at someone a certain way. All taken as signs of disrespect in the gang world; even the insane acts of what’s known as “initiation week” where many random murders take place. In a lot of gangs this process is done to show that an individual has the “heart” to take a life, no matter whose.

The extent of member’s participation (what does an average member do? What crimes do they commit/not commit?)

When we hear the word gang we automatically think about crime and violence committed by a certain group of people. The misconception of how we generally associate “gangs” is extended to us by main stream society which relates that gangs are linked to antisocial behavior and are to be composed of generally of criminal involvement with violent motives. An actual definition for what a gang is does not exist due to that gangs vary on a number of dimensions including size, use of symbolic representations of membership, age of gang, age of members, level of organization, and involvement in crime (). There exist a variety of gangs, no two gangs are alike and their role in society may be distinct for example one gang might be good and another gang