Our Gang

Our altar project would focused on transnational gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).We want to emphasize that this gang has a long history of terrorizing communities’ from Central America to Mexico as well as the United States; but most important in how this gang tends to have an impact in Latina/o communities. The history of this gang would be emphasize in our research paper as well as in our altar. For instance, Timothy would focus on the history of the gang by answering the 5 W’s by focusing

Gangs in America 06-06-09 Gangs in America It is estimated that there are roughly 24,000 gangs in America today. There are 750,000 stated gang members. Gangs are taking over our youth and our county. In 1996 50% of all gang members were juveniles. Twelve years later that percentage has not changed. Gang violence is on the rise and it has to stop. We have to take back our streets and our children. The history of gangs goes back to biblical times. Gangs have always caused social issue

United States are involved in a gang and about half of crimes are related to gang violence. Crimes dealing with gangs and drugs have rates that are the highest they have ever been. Illegal immigrants are a large chunk of people that are involved with gangs. Crime in the United States has an indomitable influence on our society. Additionally, our efforts to reduce the amount crime are necessary and can unquestionably affect the progress in our country.                Gangs and drug-related crime serve

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. Given that gang crime, violence is on the rise, changing the law so that gangs will hold

To control gangs, law enforcement agencies have used preventive approaches, including community organization, social intervention, opportunity provision, suppression and organizational change (Spergel, 1990). Not unlike the ones that were talked about earlier. Suppression has historically been a major strategy used by police and involves targeting gang leaders and hard-core members for surveillance, arrest and prosecution. However, the Illinois State Police Criminal Intelligence Bulletin (1992)

The Gangs In Our Communities By: Adam Taylor What set do you claim? Isn’t that a question we all hear at some point in our school years and maybe sometimes even after. Well I remember being in elementary school and not having to worry about nothing but recess. Those were the days of no worries and no stress. Then came middle school and that’s when things begin to change. Middle school is more about who you hang out with and how you dress. That’s where most of it starts. At the level of middle

GANG VIOLENCE In society today, there is a major problem We live in a society where gangs are taking over our neighborhoods in numbers. It is the responsibility of the individuals to part take in getting their neighborhoods back under control. Gangs are becoming a growing problem in American society. More young people are turning to gangs to solve problems in their lives or for acceptance. When youths join gangs, they drop all their social activities with school, family, and friends. However, individuals

with the making issue of gangs in American culture. The rise in gang affiliations and youth killing throughout the nation is rarely addressed because of the false notion that gangs only exist in minority communities and are therefore not a problem for America as a whole. Within this year, the issue of gangs is not addressed outright but in other ways such as education, according to the interviewee: “A main concern of the parents give the impression to be to make sure our children are receiving quality

Los Angeles, the “gang capital” of the nation. Over than 450 gangs in the city, some have been in existence since the 1950’s. All of these gangs combined have an individual total of about 45,000. Gang affiliation has taken a big role in the city of Los Angeles, in the last 3 years there has been a total of about 16,000 crimes, 491 of them were homicides. Gang affiliation has taken a big role in the lives of many young people, falling into drugs, and maybe in the course of committing murder or other

Crimes in prison have been a part of our prisons since prisons themselves have been developed. It is almost certain that the criminals who end up in an institution in the first place will commit crimes while incarcerated. Prisons have come a long way over the years and with trial and error they have discovered many effective ways to help drop crime rates. Mail is monitored and read on occasion and is a privilege for inmates that can be taken away. Though many of the new policies and procedures