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“Which one of you shot him” said angrily “When you say him who exactly are you talking about” The only person one of you killed yesterday, unless you just out here shooting random people up for fun.” A member of Richard Smith’s California base gang shot a rival gang member who they were a peace with. Now Richard is trying to fix the problem before it gets any bigger. So he gather gang member 45,67, and 178 because they are the most trigger happy member of his gang that he doesn’t trust. Also he assigns people he feel is unimportant to him number that way he doesn’t have to learn their name and name make you connect more a person, which is something he dislikes very much. “The three other you against the wall now” he screamed. “Bro none killed …show more content…
Nothing is stopping me from shooting you and getting another one of you gang members.” “But you promised me money already.” “I’m tired of you and your low IQ.” In a fit of rage Richard pulls out a gun. “Now tell me what I want to know, before I shoot you in the face.” “Alright, I'll tell you what you want to know just don't shoot me.” He went on the give up all of his gang information, some of it was necessary and some wasn’t. Richard and his gang didn't because the more secrets he knew the better. “I told you everything, now can I please go.” “Yeah 33 over there will take you back home. Also, make you don't tell anybody what happened here. “I promise on my life I won't.” Richard went home to prepare for an very important phone call. He knew that the only way to fix the gang war was by what he said. “Hello.” “Who is this.” “I’m a businessman trying to solve an issue.” “Stop playing games with, night now who is this.” “You don't need my name to solve this issue.” “Why are calling my phone
1-The story tells, Real facts occurred in the 1940s, where it was a racist society. Gangs were scattered throughout the cities, and regions, and the streets. To live, you have full get away, or belonging to one of them. You should help the gang members that they were right or on falsehood. Also, it is a kind of bigotry, not much different from intolerance, national, ethnic, and sectarian That were prevalent in American society. in fact, it is the inevitable result of this society. When the corruption becomes prevails, injustice and lawless prevails too, and justice will disappear.
“ You either go out there and get you brother’s jacket or when you get back I’m going to give you a beating that will be ten times as bad as what that little thief could do to you.”
Schmidt, L. M., & O'Reilly, J. T. (2007). Gangs and Law Enforcement: A Guide for Dealing with Gang-Related Violence. Springfield: Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD.
This paper will cover issues that young minorities encounter in the movies; Crips and Bloods: Made in America (2008), Gran Torino (2008), A Better Life (2011). Movies will be summarize, and compare and contrast youths experienced. Criminological theories shall be utilized to further elaborate issues. Finally steps and theories will be utilized towards solving issues, also possible methods to correct the issues will be addressed in the end.
Prison gangs were created by inmates as a way to protect themselves from other inmates. Each prison gang has their reasons for existing. There are five prison gangs in the United States. These gangs are as follow: The Aryan Brotherhood, The Black Guerilla Family, Texas Syndicate, Mexican Mafia, and Lanuestra Familia. They all have similar beliefs, meanings of their tattoos, how gangs impact their lives and society, and the challenges they bring the prison system in order to decrease gang population.
Prison gangs are originally formed by inmates as a way of protecting themselves from the other inmates. These gangs have turned out to be violent and thus posing a threat to security. This paper will have a look at the different gangs in prisons, their history, beliefs and missions, and the differences and similarities in these gangs.
CNN presents the documentary, Homicide in Hollenbeck, spotlighting gang activity in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollenbeck. This documentary explores the subculture of gangs existing within Hollenbeck from a several perspectives. The people documented include a mother who lost both of her sons to gang violence, a priest that has tried to help rehabilitate gang members, a police officer that has worked in Hollenbeck for five years in the gang unit, and a current gang member. For a conclusion, Homicide in Hollenbeck focuses on a juvenile exposed to gang life on the cusp of decided where they want their life to lead; gangs or freedom. Problems attributed to the high rate of gang activity and number of gangs in Hollenbeck are the high poverty rate, low employment rate, and broken families that make up the majority of Hollenbeck. The crime most discussed, as per the title of the documentary, is homicide The number of gang related homicides has risen even though the criminal behavior of gangs has ultimately decreased in the neighborhood. In order to fight the overwhelming gang presence, the police believe in increasing the amount of gun power on the streets and number of jailed gang members. The priest who runs Homeboy Industries stated that he feels most gang members are just young men who can’t get out of the gang life. With more funds and opportunities, he thinks the problem could be decreased. In the end, the documentary mentions that the FBI has formed a gang center where local law enforcement agencies can share information to gain more knowledge and to better fight the presence of gangs.
...g measures out there. The reader is given plenty of background information on gangs allowing someone with little knowledge of the subject or the cities’ history to jump right in. Statistics, interviews, surveys and personal observations of the authors during ride-alongs make up much of the source material. The book’s strengths lie in the amount of research contained within it, as well as an insider look at the gang unit and what it takes to be an officer in that specialization. However, if it is not being used to supplement another research paper or study, the book comes off as a difficult and boring read, making a reader likely to put it down otherwise.
“Wow, think highly of yourself don’t you, Tony -- maybe just a little too much, just saying. The average person in a room about to get killed normally shows a little – conciliatory human behavior. I wanna snap your scrawny little neck now. – You’re just a dick.”
The term gang can be associated with a number of different things but, for this paper, the term gangs will be in reference to youth gangs; “youth gangs are considered to consist of adolescents and young adults from the ages of 12 to 24” (Decker and Howell, 1999, p.1). Gangs have been a “normal” part of United States culture for centuries now, a sad but also, very true statement. What started out as a group of friends wearing their favorite color and protecting their neighborhood from crime has turned into a problem of epic proportion across the United States of America. In earlier years gangs were only a problem for poor communities within the big cities. But during this day and age, even rural areas, smaller cities and, suburbs are not immune to the problems of gangs and the dilemmas that they cause.
We are having gang problems in the U.S. Murder state in the brg. U.S cities like Los Angeles have a lot of gangs. America has more deaths ( because of gangs and murders). People in gang problems get murdered most in the U.S because of fights or drugs. If we didn’t have any kind of gangs than their would be less deaths in the U.S.
Klein, 1991 noted that “there was little pressure to attend carefully to issues od definition…. What is a gang” They classified gangs as a group that has three or more members, generally aged between 12–24, members share an identity: typically linked to sign, hand sign, tattoos, how they are dressed and often other symbols. Members view themselves as a gang, and they are recognized by others as a gang. The group engage in criminal activity and uses violence or intimidation to further its criminal objectives. Responses from law enforcement agencies in the National Youth Gang Survey (NYGS) indicate that among the characteristics of greatest importance in defining a gang are group identity and criminal activity, a group name, and accompanying signs and symbols that outwardly represent the group to
Hallswort, S. And Young, T. (2004) Getting Real About Gang. Criminal Justice Matters [online]. 55. (1), pp 12-13 [Accessed 10 December 2013]
“Why aren't you getting up , do you think this is a game!”, one of the bad guys had a pistol in my face and was screaming at me.
“Well, what the hell do you expect us to do? We can’t exactly go to the cops and be like ‘oh hey, we were wary of this guy, so we stalked him for a while, but turns out he knew and confronted us, so we panicked and shot him, oops sorry. But on the bright side we found out why we were suspicious’”