A gang is a criminal street gang they do assaults, drive by shooting robberies and homicides. What makes a young kid a gang member? How is a gang a good for young kids, or is it bad? Everyone needs a home and family. Even if it is on the streets selling drugs, trafficking women, and killing someone. No one has ever said a family is not like that, no one has said that a family needs to be normal. “What people don 't understand is joining a gang ain 't bad, it 's cool, and its fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it is cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family is in the gang. We 're not just killing people every night; we 're just hanging out, having a good time” (Snoop Dogg, Brainy quote). To must youth kids a gang
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To argue this it is necessary to view gangs as surrogate families, to many young people that is all they have. Young gang members have that loyalty, understanding, emotional, and physical protection. “Most members have parents with criminal backgrounds or being from “broken home” (Rees, 1996). Thus, support the systems is always around no matter where that one person is there is always five around without anyone knowing. Having that tight family that most do not feel in their biological family. National Gang center states that one--third African Americans, ten to fifteen perfect of Caucasians, and nineteen perfect of Hispanics that there is a racial/ethnic composition of gangs, but also there is a characteristic of the gang problem across the United States. The worrying signs of becoming a gang member that most overlook, or say this young kid is just acting out. One would be when a family member losing interest in school, becoming truant, using drugs, using alcohol, carrying weapons or large amounts of cash, getting arrested the biggest one is changing friends. When someone wants to become a gang member, first they need to “put in work,” (that means stealing or killing someone) second, jumped in for the men. For women they have two options jumped in and or sexed in (with two or five different gang members at once). Most people like that feeling that someone is paying attention to them and having their backs. Even when someone …show more content…
For one young gang member that Walter Jacobson interview. The gang member states there is no solution to the violence of the streets. After sometime of gang bagging you start to lose yourself, and feeling you once had. After all most of us, gang members love having new J’s on our feet, money to feed our families, and having the very best out of life. We never grew up in Beverly Hills nothing handed to us. To be fully honest selling drugs is how we live day by day, there is not live after the streets. Jacobson asked how you feel about the Police. The blunt one said the police is a damn joke, I am not scared of them, and I just laugh at them. The other gang member bluntly said I want a mansion, women, and lot of cash money. The main gang member Jacobson interviewed said he really just wants to live to see tomorrow, that is his ten-year wish. Introduction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says that there is a gang problem in our Military. What surprised the FBI was we are handing these heavy weapons to the people that we try hard to put in prison and to clean up our streets of America. “Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts” (Jimi Hendrix, Brainy
To argue this it is necessary to view gangs as surrogate families, to many young people that is all they have. Young gang members have that loyalty, understanding, emotional, and physical protection. “Most members have parents with criminal backgrounds or being from “broken home” (Rees, 1996). Thus, support the systems is always around no matter where that one person is there is always five around without anyone knowing. Having that tight family that most do not feel in their biological family. National Gang center states that one--third African Americans, ten to fifteen perfect of Caucasians, and nineteen perfect of Hispanics that there is a racial/ethnic composition of gangs, but also there is a characteristic of the gang problem across the United States. The worrying signs of becoming a gang member that most overlook, or say this young kid is just acting out. One would be when a family member losing interest in school, becoming truant, using drugs, using alcohol, carrying weapons or large amounts of cash, getting arrested the biggest one is changing friends. When someone wants to become a gang member, first they need to “put in work,” (that means stealing or killing someone) second, jumped in for the men. For women they have two options jumped in and or sexed in (with two or five different gang members at once). Most people like that feeling that someone is paying attention to them and having their backs. Even when someone …show more content…
For one young gang member that Walter Jacobson interview. The gang member states there is no solution to the violence of the streets. After sometime of gang bagging you start to lose yourself, and feeling you once had. After all most of us, gang members love having new J’s on our feet, money to feed our families, and having the very best out of life. We never grew up in Beverly Hills nothing handed to us. To be fully honest selling drugs is how we live day by day, there is not live after the streets. Jacobson asked how you feel about the Police. The blunt one said the police is a damn joke, I am not scared of them, and I just laugh at them. The other gang member bluntly said I want a mansion, women, and lot of cash money. The main gang member Jacobson interviewed said he really just wants to live to see tomorrow, that is his ten-year wish. Introduction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says that there is a gang problem in our Military. What surprised the FBI was we are handing these heavy weapons to the people that we try hard to put in prison and to clean up our streets of America. “Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts” (Jimi Hendrix, Brainy