... to scale, certain groups are overrepresented. In Canada, these groups are aboriginals and blacks. Considering "aboriginals comprise 4.3% of the total Canadian population" (La Prairie, C. 2002), out of that "23% of federal inmates are aboriginal" (La Prairie, C. 2002). Also, only 3% of the total Canadian population is black while 9.5% of federal inmates today are black (an increase of 80% since ... ...

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... show who is responsible for the uprise in gangs in our communities and also share some of my own personal experiences with gangs. The essay from our reader Luis Rodriguez "La Vida Loca" shows us the two life-lines of two gang members. Luis joined a gang back when he was only thirteen years old. I believe that Luis was tired of being ... on gangs. Yet I disagree on the notion that the officers in that area have not received training on how to crackdown gang crimes. If I compare this "Daily News" article to "La Vida Loca," however, I can see that in the story there was no action done to c...

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... interview with Officer Teresa Cole (Patrol Officer) the group and I asked the following questions: 1) Do you have community policing? Yes. 2) How do you feel about it compared to Reno or LA? To my knowledge they aren't much different because the community poling is uniformed all over the state through meetings. They"re all inner-linked. 3) What is your own definition of ... a fingerprint instead, this prevents fraud from occurring. In comparison to the city of San Pablo and Richmond Anaheim is more "technology" wise, so Teresa was mistaken in her interview because LA does have different...

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... years. Juveniles commit many of these homicides. (p.A1). In response, Federal officials, in cooperation with local law enforcement, established the Los Angeles Metropolitan Task Force (LA Task Force), and launched its largest crackdown ever on LA gangs. The FBI increased its gang investigations unit by approximately 25%, the U.S. Attorney's Department brought in its most experienced gang prosecutors, and the Bureau of Alcohol ... ...

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... $2000 per arrest Cities spend an average of $12 million on prostitution control every year. Ranging from $1 million (Memphis) to $23 million (New York) and up to 100 million in LA" (Prostitution in the US . . . [NA]). These numbers however are probably on the low side considering these figures are over 5 years old but you can clearly see that this is enough ... ...

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... goes wrong in school, then the first person to get called down and take care of it would obviously be the security. This is how our interview went. "Mr. Gregory La Cour, how do you feel about the issue of kids being tried as adults for committing crimes such as murder?" "I have mixed emotions about this. Kids who are ages 16 ... ...

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... on violence were available to both groups, as were the same rock and rap music. Guns were just as available to both groups. Six out of seven youths arrested in LA County are black or Hispanic. By some strange coincidence, six out of seven black or Hispanic youths in the county live below the poverty line. (Sadler, 1997) Poverty in a society ... ...

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... , both in America and in Sicily. Ever since the testimony of the Mafioso Joseph Valachi before the Senate's McClellan Committee in 1963, the Mafia has also been referred to as "La Cosa Nostra," "this thing of ours." Americans have felt the impact of organized crime, and they have followed the media coverage of the mob wars and their victims with fascination ... ...

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... randomly shoot into houses. Many innocent people including children and infants have been killed in gang related shootings. Gang related shootings are very common in a lot of big cities. In LA county in California 68 percent of all homicides are gang related. Even as close as Omaha, gangs continue to cause terror in the homes of many people. In 1995 41 ... ...

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