Due to gang violence between the “Bloods” and the “Crips”, who Doughboy is a member of, Ricky is caught in the middle and gets killed by members of the “Bloods” by getting shot in the streets. Furious with their friend …show more content…
Inner city population are normally made up of poor income people, which are primarily African American families. African American’s are not only disproportionate in arrests in these parts of the city but are also disproportionate in being victims also, especially in the juvenile age range. National Crime Victimization (NCVS) date showed “…that one of every six juveniles (defined as youth aged 12 to 17) had been the victim of property crime”, which is 40 percent higher than that of an adult (Walker, Spohn, & Delone, 2012, p. 445). For violent crimes, juveniles also had a high rate of being victims depending on age range, and were even high for African