any marks or bruises. Both mom and Marcus are affiliated with gangs. Mom is affiliated with a vice lord gang. It’s on her Facebook page. Mom acts like she is sweet but it’s just a cover up like she’s not affiliated with a gang. Reporter stated it affects the children because they have run ins with people while the children are around. Mom is the messy type. She threatens people with the gang. Marcus is affiliated with an East Coast gang. Marcus smokes weed around the children. The reporter has seen
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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
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In the movie‚ “Fight Club”‚ a narcoleptic insomniac (played by Edward Norton) wants to change his life so he starts up a club with Tyler Durden(played by Brad Pitt) where people from all over the city come to fight. The club turns into something much bigger throughout the movie and fighting is not the only thing that they do. The narrator has many problems and feels like he is getting left out of the club even though he was one of the people who started it. Durden became the leader and the club
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Inner City Gang Memberships Inner city gang memberships involving the youth have become a problem across the United States. There are more and more young adults becoming involved in gangs and committing the crimes and violence that come along with the enrollment into the gangs. Parents today worry about their teenagers becoming involved and although they try to keep them out of the gangs they are unsuccessful at it. This paper talks about the gang membership for a young person living in the inner
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or slowed the growth of street gangs. As others have said‚ if you grow up in a poor area of town the amount of money you can make from selling drugs or being a part of that gang is attractive. The real question is whether the government wants to pump more money into the problem now in hopes of fixing it or continue feeding it into the prison system to keep people that are convicted behind bars. An aggressive increase in the amount of officers assigned to anti-gang and drug units is a start. Those
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kinds of threats to inmate and officer safety daily. The correctional system in our country contains many gangs within the walls and connected to our streets. These groups‚ known as Security Threat Groups‚ are usually operated by race‚ and are active in our Federal Bureau of Prisons and in at least 40 state correctional systems. Inmates are pretty much forced to join their racial group or gang to ensure their personal safety while in prison. In the 1980’s and 1990’s‚ inmates were more racially twisted
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Gang is: A group of people‚ youngsters or adolescent who associate closely‚ often exclusively‚ for social reasons‚ esp. such as a group engaging in delinquent behavior. It is said that there are about 750‚000 different gangs in the United States‚ ranging from cultural meaning people from the same culture like the “The Latin Kings” consisting of Hispanic members to the “ Zoe pound” which include only Haitians or the well know the “mafia” which consist of the Italians. Other gangs are just diverse
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I’ve never resided nor visited California. Therefore‚ I wouldn’t understand the high crime rate nor the gang activities that exist. I’ve only seen movies that reflect different gang images. Movies such as Colors‚ Fresh‚ Boyz N Tha Hood‚ Menace II Society‚ and Original Gangstaz explain the life of crips‚ bloods‚ and other gangs. When children view these movies‚ they think they are cool. Their minds are too young and immature to witness such graphic images. These images include distribution of drugs
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Sometimes I believe that we as people‚ specifically college students‚ forget how lucky we actually are. My eyes were opened up to this upon reading Sudhir Venkatesh’s remarkable story entitled Gang Leader for a Day. Through this novel‚ which I really enjoyed‚ I found myself going through an array of emotions. If I could pick one word to best describe the novel it would be a rollercoaster. At points I would laugh hysterically‚ while at other times I felt sorry for people‚ constantly my feelings
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Gangs‚ which are usually groups of criminal or youth delinquents‚ are said to be able to be dated back to the times of the Greeks. It is theorized that some of America’s present-day gangs are stemmed from these ancient formations. However‚ today’s gangs are more serious‚ violent‚ and spiraling out of control. The indications of a gang can be identified by certain graffiti tags‚ tattoos‚ gang colors‚ and the self-identification by youths. When departmental crime officials are asked to tell how they
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