staggering statistic in the state of California conducted by the California Healthy Kids Survey for kids in grade 5‚ 7‚ 9 and 11‚ in the 2007-08 year reported the amount of youth with gang involvement in the state of California and its cities and counties compared to the rest of the nation. While the survey for the nation reported a 5 percent involvement from youth in gangs‚ the state of California reported 8 percent of their youth involved and in its suburban cities of Oakland and Richmond‚ the percentage
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killings spreading over the city have reached extreme lengths‚ as Josh Saul expresses in his article by saying‚ “by the end of November‚ the city had more than 700 murders for the first time since 1998; that’s more murders than in New York City and Los Angeles combined‚” (Saul‚ 2016‚ para. 4). Chicago is commonly called “Chi-raq”‚ and was also mentioned in a song by Kanye West because the murders
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Six California’s Six California’s‚ proposed by a man named Tim Draper‚ is an idea in which California is to be split into six‚ individual states. This idea is said to be an opportunity for California to start fresh and to create a better future for the citizens. As of right‚ California is facing numerous problems that are impossible for just one governor to attempt to solve‚ but creating six California’s allows us to fix those problems. The current proposition to split California into six individual
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body with distress and depression? Joan Didion’s masterfully composed essay‚ Los Angeles Notebook‚ conveys her view on the Santa Ana winds. Didion argues that a gentle touch of the wind will rapidly have one fall into a coma of distress and despair. Entering the season of Santa Ana winds‚ local residents brace themselves. Citizens become cautious and fearful with their lives when facing “something uneasy in the Los Angeles air…some unnatural stillness‚ some tension.” When the winds make their stealthy
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Abstracts As I went to our local library‚ I notice a group of young people dressed with bandannas and dark clothing. I later understood this group to be a gang‚ which sparked the curiosity for the research of this paper. Gangs in the United States are a problem‚ although there has been a decrease in certain areas. This paper will outline the social and psychological problems of youth and prison gangs. The study will speak to the current issues and present suggestions for the future.
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Abstract In Santa Cruz County in the city of Watsonville the gang recruitment has increase by double. More and more young Latino kids are getting recruited to be the gangs. The two gangs that has established in Watsonville is Sureños to the south and Norteños to the north. Watsonville is a small-town with population of 51‚199 according to the 2010 census. The violence and crimes has increase through the past years. The Santa Cruz Probation has been trying to reduce the juvenile crime in Watsonville
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almost died at 16 because of toxic spray. Rodriguez was kicked out of three schools and finally dropped at 15. A lot of his friends were killed by rival gangs‚ the police‚ overdoses‚ car crashes and suicide. Then he moved with Ramiro from Los Angeles to Chicago to escape the violence. One reason for teenagers joining gangs is to feel accepted. To understand why a teen joins a gang‚ you have to live in their areas and understand their environment. In gang neighborhoods‚ the majority of the
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Another Note - The Los Angeles BB murder files When Beyond Birthday committed his third murder‚ he attempted an experiment. Namely‚ to see if it were possible for a human being to die of internal hemorrhaging without rupturing any organs. Specifically‚ he drugged his victim so they fell unconscious; tied them up‚ and proceeded to beat their left arm thoroughly‚ being careful not to break the skin. He was hoping to bring about enough hemorrhaging to cause death from loss of blood‚ but this attempt
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There are many reasons that gangs form themselves from the readings and the research that I have done I have drawn my own conclusion as to why the individuals involved decide to form an alliance together. Most of these kids come from broken homes‚ and sometimes they do not even have a home; due to dysfunctional contact that are prevalent in most of today’s children and teenage relationships. When a disruption transpires or comes about in these kids lives they are completely perplexed as to how to
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