The Issue Of Crimes Committed By Gang Affiliates Is A Topic

Individuals who are affiliated with gangs commit crimes such as homicide consistently. Gangs target areas where people are not unified and would be less likely to contact authorities if violence broke out. Drive by shootings occur so often that Detective Dale Wallis says “they [gangs] do not care who’s going to get shot” (qtd. in Minty 1). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did a report to determine the top five United States cities to have high levels of gang homicide. Those five cities were Los Angeles, California; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Long Beach, California; Oakland, California, and Newark, New Jersey. The study

Gang violence, is one of the most frequent causes of homicide by gun. One does not realize why another individual own actions would harm someone else. In society, we are all accountable. People involved with gangs were often neglected when they were young, since their parents did not raise them properly. Lee Habeeb, a journalist, says:

The main source of income for gangs is drug trafficking in urban areas. (“Gang Violence”). This shows the way that gangs get money and it can show that some gang violence takes place because of the drug game. “It is broadly assumed that gang-related homicides are directly linked to drug trafficking activities.” (“Gang Violence”). The quote here shows the correlation of drug trafficking and gang violence. Drug trafficking leads to gang violence for a number of different reasons. In a news article, it stated that there was a massive drug bust containing over 10,000 dollars worth of drugs and guns (Davey). This explains because it is a prime example of how violence rises with drug trafficking. When cities do not invest, it will lead to a lot of gang activity. With gang activity comes the drug game and drugs cause a lot of violence such as shootings and

Gang membership is a big issue. There around 33,000 gangs in the U.S.A. These gangs have been responsible for a wide range of criminal activities like; drug trafficking, prostitution, robbery, murder, extortion and human trafficking. Most importantly it has been the reason why so many of our young children have become a statistic and whose dreams or goals were cut short. Youth are the most affect by gangs because they are most likely to be recruited to part of these awful groups. Youth are in a stage of vulnerability and are more likely to be pressure to do things they may not want. That does not mean all youth will join a gang. Males are most likely to join a gang than female, yet female still do make a portion of our gang membership. It is more likely youth younger than 13 are most likely to join a gang and African American, as well as Hispanic, make up a larger percentage of gang membership than any other ethnicity. It is also those who live in neighborhood with high rate crime and poverty who would most likely be exposed to gangs, therefore have a higher possibility of joining a gang. Family structure is also a variable, those raised in a single parent household rather than a two parent household. Peers influence your decision, like if your friend is around trouble, or your family has current gang members.

Gang violence is a very prevalent, and ongoing issue that is ever growing. According to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (a nationally representative sample of 9,000 adolescents), 8 percent of the youth surveyed had belonged to a gang at some

Researching gangs can be a delicate and complex topic. While researching and collecting information I found a noteworthy pattern, showing that the underlying topic in a majority of the articles surrounds gangs and their aim towards to violence and crime to survive and thrive. In essence many drug retailing gangs have tendencies to distrust and depend on violence and illegal methods of business. As well as vandalizing the community, which they see as exhibiting their signs and displaying their territory. By committing these low level crimes, the members begin to further run down their community, in addition to the previously poverty ridden area to begin with. While the majority of the country is attributing the poverty ridden neighborhoods to the gangs we explore if the neighborhoods have truly taken a turn for the worse permanently.

Juveniles’ participation in gangs is an ongoing issue continuing to face the Unites States of America’s criminal justice system in modern society. The first active gangs to appear within Western society were inscribed by a respected chronicler of crime in Britain 1873. Gangs first emerged into American society around 1783 as the American Revolution drew to a close. More serious street gangs, however, did not surface until the early part of the nineteenth century. Although gangs appear to specialize recruits at the ages of seventeen and eighteen years old, in some instances, gangs begin to mold future recruits at a younger age. The problem facilitate a rippling effect that can be felt throughout local communities, cities, and American society as a whole, affecting parts of society such as juvenile detention and correctional facilities (breeding grounds for recruitment), the economy, and parts of the local community. Activities perpetrated by juveniles in gangs stretches from drug trafficking and gun trafficking, which often results in physical violence (including murder, homicide, and drive by shootings), to less serious, more deviant offenses that are nonetheless viewed as problematic for the community. With the drastic influence and effect that gangs are having on juveniles, one may scrounge into hopelessness, fearful that there is no solution, when in fact the answer lies within all citizens throughout society

In todh society gang violence is prominent typically expressed in the more “ghetto” regions of the united states such as urban cities like detroit or la.To first begin we must define a gang ,merriam webster defines a gang as” group: such as (1) : a group of persons working together (2) : a group of persons working to unlawful or antisocial ends; especially : a band of antisocial adolescents” . These gangs are specifically notorious for killing drugs and general violence. Theses gangs are formed for the reasons of respect seeking community or and power ,but can be solved by providing these adolescents with systems that help them better themselves and higher there location on the socioeconomic ladder.

Lets think, how gangs might go out in pursuing their crime or gang to gang war,for example, if gang M has hurt gang B, (for any reason like: messing up their turf, committing crimes without paying the price, or any small act of disrespect), gang B will probably react violently. This violent response could either be lethal or non-lethal. If the lethal choice is chosen, it could be a drive by shooting or some kind of ambush. In carrying out this plan, they might kill an innocent person as an unintentional by-product. Then gang B may well respond by killing somebody in gang M. Another reason for crime in between gangs could be for a member being a traitor or a snitch. Somebody might wan/ need to leave the gang, and if so, they can no longer be trusted, so that no longer gang member will probably be

Before starting this class, I already had personal knowledge about gangs but after taking this class, I have a much better understanding about them. From what I 've seen and heard, gangs are and will always be a part of our society. As we 've learned in this class, they have been around for hundreds of years. One thing that came to my mind while I was talking to my husband was pirates. They have territories over seas and anyone that passes their water gets robbed, in today 's gangs it 's a different setting but the same concept.

Gang violence has grown to be a great problem in El Salvador in the last 30 years. Gangs have grown into large, complex organized crime units; the two largest gangs, MS13 (also known as Mara Salvatrucha 13) and Barrio18 (also known as Calle18), now encompass large parts of Central America. Both gangs rely heavily on local drug-peddling, which drives most of the general gang violence. The desire for control over certain areas had forged a fierce rivalry, in which civilians are often endangered when caught in the crossfire. In 2014, El Salvador alone counted 900 homicides a month, in which at least 30 of those murders were ruled femicides. Both MS13 and Barrio18 are active in the human-trafficking trade; the kidnapping of women and girls who are eventually sold into sex slavery is extremely common, which perpetuates a toxic cycle of exploitation of women by men by enforcing toxic masculinity based in the oppression of women. El Salvador is not only facing a domestic women 's rights emergency, but a internal safety crisis of epic proportions. State authority officials are often involved in extortion rings, which has only heightened the prevalence of public transport extortion. The pervasiveness of extortion has become an extensive problem; local economies cannot prosper while paying costly gang-taxes, which despite offering the residents a promise of security and protection, only contribute to the poverty by hindering any surplus which typically characterizes the beginnings of

Gangs today are even more violent than earlier gangs. People join gangs for social support, entertainment, and economical financial support. Some gangs are just a group of people who hang out and think the world is against them. This is a ''them and us'' way of thinking. Both small and large gangs can become involved in criminal acts. Gangs

The commanders over the gang unit can first start by assembling a group of police officer to target the five prevalent youth gang groups. In my opinion collecting data will be a very important task; it will help officer distinguish the type of offender they are dealing with and if they have committed a crime before. Finding out which gang or gangs have the largest territory and members then began monitoring their activities.

The problem of gangs and violence are commonly found in Chicago, especially during the night time. Although the rate seems to be lower compared to the past, the violence rate is still shocking compared to other states. Therefore, violence in Chicago 's neighborhoods and communities cannot be overlooked. Statistics show that 1,109 school-aged youth were shot, and 216 of those were killed in 2010. As a student of UIC, I often receive crime alert emails as violence cases seemed to occur quite often around the campus area. In order to improve the public security to ensure residents’ safety, it is essential to find ways to solve these issues. It is because violence can cause negative effects in many different aspects. Besides individual’s physical well being, it may also lead to some long-term psychological problems; such as anxiety, eating and sleeping problem. Moreover, violence also affects the community as it became unsafe to live in. The value of the properties will decrease because the quality of life became worse.

When someone mentions criminal gangs and organised crime, most people's mind goes to The Godfather style Italian family gangs, or if you're British The Cray brothers. More recently, people might think of the South American drug cartels, or perhaps the Asian Triad families. Few people however, would think of North Africa. Many had heard of the chaos caused by some of the North African immigrants through France, but for the most part they were thought of as random acts by frustrated, angry youths. Few realised that amongst the many thousands of immigrants that were currently flooding the southern half of Europe, incredibly organised criminal gangs were operating. Drugs, jewels prostitution and weapons were the obvious sources of income, but these gangs had another branch to their business.