Gang Violence Essay

years gun violence activity has dramatically increased. In 2012 alone, there has been a lot of deaths due to gang activities. Many innocent people have lost their lives. Gang shootings are beginning to exceed to the fullest due to gang violence in our communities. Innocent people are losing their lives, gang members tearing down our communities, and family members of victims grieving because of their loss. We as a community need to help each and make a change within each other to end the gang…

In order to find out if the above methods to help stop gang violence will actually work we will be conducting an experimental type of research. They will need to be put in action in the form of conducting research to see how effective the proposed methods above would be. First we would need to gather a sample size of children that would be the most at risk to join a gang. In order for our data to be accurate we would need to have a large sample size. We would gather about 100-200 at risk…

1. Phoenix felt that because of the violence that they have been experiencing in the summer of 1977 has helped them to come up with an idea to make the G.R.E.A.T program. A few years later the police started making documents of 150 street gangs and 885 gang members which was arrested for different minor crimes to murder and also 9 gangs that happen to be related homicides. From 1987-1988 the California gangs would influence and associate with the Crips to be able to expand their drug markets in…

Gangs can make one’s life more difficult by controlling how they live and who they interact with. Gangs are able to convince its members that the gang is their only real family. A gang membership will create broken family relationship as gang members do not consider their biological family as their real family, (Curry). Their gang members make it seem as if they are more important and as a result, this creates broken homes. Gang members rely on their family to support them financially, (Curry).…

In the transcript of the video, “Gangs and Guns Fuel Chicago’s Surge in Violence”, Chris Bury discusses the horror of violence during the summer, also called “the killing season.” Many promising young teenagers get caught in the crossfire which ends up with them wounded or worse. One of the teenagers named in the video was a seventeen- year- old boy named Vonzell Banks, who died during a family trip over the July 4th weekend. People are getting killed at any time. Around 11 PM the police are…

Gangs in long island have been a problem in the community for a long time. Not only do gangs increase the crime rates but also have made the community to live in fear and terror since they do not know when the gang will strike. The community has urged legislators to introduce laws that curb gangs but often most policies put in place have not been successful or they are implemented halfway. The law enforcement has tried to use many ways to disintegrate gangs such as isolating and separating,…

about 21,500 documented gangs and over a million documented gang members (Teen Violence Statistics). About 40% of these members are under the age of 18 (Johnson). This gang violence affects every child that is in a gang or not. These gangs take in a lot of different kids of adolescence for many reasons. These kids feel the need that they have to be a part of a gang because their friends are doing it too, but there are many ways to prevent them from joining. Gang violence in America has been…

Gangs have proven to be highly territorial and go to the fullest extent to prevent any outsiders from taking over their turf. This is what leads to large scale gang violence and the increase of crime rate in urban communities. This takes place every where in the world not just in the United States. Gangs in order to rise to power strategically take control of a popular commodity and become the source/vendor…

over the nature and scope of juvenile antisocial behavior as it relates to organized gangs. It will describe three of the most common forms of antisocial behaviors in organized gangs. It will also cover and describe three types of proactive solutions to the gang violence. Juveniles that are involved in gangs normally have some contributing factors that pushed them towards wanting to hang out or join a gang. The factors have to do with children that have a parent that is dependent on drugs…

As a commander of the gang unit, If I was responsible for intervening in a cycle of escalating violence among five prevalent youth gangs in my jurisdiction. What can I do to stop the escalation of inter-gang violence? First, I would set up a meeting with all the top members one on one so that I can get a feel for what type of feelings they are having among others in the community and how it is affecting them. According to pg. 153 "traditional organized crime was nationality based; today's…