Gangs
As defined by Sgt. M. Longo’s website on “Gang Information” of the Huron Valley Mens, “a gang is a group of people that form an allegiance to the exclusion of others, for a common purpose of engaging in violent, antisocial, or criminal behavior” (www.geocities.com/rainforest/4207/gangs.html). Gangs have been a problem for years in the big cities of the U.S. In Los Angeles, they account for about half of the city’s murders. From 1991 to 1993 drive-by shootings in Wichita, Kansas rose 3,000 percent. Now the presence of gangs has been seen in smaller cities. Violent street gangs are now operating in 94 percent of all medium and large-sized cities. Steven Wiley, the FBI chief overseeing the fight against violent crime says that the small cities and towns of 25,000 and less are now experiencing gang activity. Despite the overall drop in the crime rate nationally, the problem of violent street gangs is an unwelcome exception. Gang membership has grown to more that 600,000 nationwide. (CNN, 1997) Evidence that smaller cities have seen a growth in gangs in recent years can be seen in Jackson, MI which has a population of about 50,000. Detective Gary Shuettee of Jackson Police department says
Court did not like the fact that an officer could arrest anyone just standing on a street corner. Although Chicago’s attempt failed in giving police power to clear the streets of loitering gang members, this is just a matter of rewriting the ordinance. The identification of potential gang members is important when a new inmate is coming into prison. Many steps are taken to identify members including examination of past criminal record and tattoos on their bodies. Once an inmate is established in prison photos with other prisoner can show affiliation. The prison gang members are very secretive and are not as flashy as street gang members. Many messages between members both inside and outside of prison use codes and ciphers. Codes are words that have a specific meaning for something else. An example of this is the Black Guerilla Family term of, “Annette Brookes means Aryan Brotherhood” (Orlando-Morningstar, 1997, p.7). A cipher involves transposing the alphabet from letters into corresponding figures. -Written Rules or By-Laws -No Identifiable Leader • Gang suppression operations and tactics, which use gang data, to select enforcement strategies.
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PSD PSD,
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City Council,
Gallo Acuna,
Identifiable Leader,
Laws Chapter,
United Sheldon,
Gang Information,
prison gangs,
street gangs,
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black guerilla family,
security threat,
mexican mafia,
anti-gang injunctions,
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criminal street gangs,
mexican-american / hispanic,
violent street gangs,
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Approximate Word count = 4105
Approximate Pages = 16 (250 words per page double spaced)
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