Crime in Los Angeles

symptom management of adults with mental health illnesses would be expected. This may reduce costs and frequency of hospitalizations or the involvement of law enforcement for crimes related to mental illness, substance abuse and homelessness. Summary of Community Characteristics The San Fernando Valley is located within Los Angeles County, and geographically, it is 345 square miles surrounded by several mountain ranges. According to the 2010 Census, the San Fernando Valley serves a population…

Throughout the course of history, gangs and organized crime have managed to find their way into society. Death has terrorized neighborhoods and violence has shaken the entire nation. The uprising of such a violent gang known as the Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, has left many unanswered questions and many crimes unsolved. The origins of the notorious gang are not certain but there are a few theories as to how MS-13 came to be. According to Geoffrey Ramsey in his article Tracing the…

Patrick Wayne Kearney was born on September the twenty fourth on ,1939 in Los Angeles California. He was the oldest of three boys, he was raised in a reasonable stable family. Kearney lived a trauma free life. Throughout his early age he was a thin sickly child who was often a target for bullies at school. As a teenager he became unsociable and fantasized about killing people. He was born in East Los Angeles yet though he still lived in texas for some time. Kearney moved back to California after…

diction of transnational criminal organizations highlights the word transnational, meaning across country boundaries. Therefore, these organizations have to be active and operational across multiple countries. For example, a gang member commits a crime in one country from the orders of a leader in another. Upward mobility is essential for transnational criminal organizations and continuous growth is another attribute. An immense part of these organizations follows their transcendence across…

Few Good Men is what sparked my interest in the court room as a young child. I watched this movie in amazement that someone could have so much passion in the job they worked in, something so foreign and unfamiliar to me. My childhood consisted of crime television shows more than cartoons which only increased my desire to look for a career in the courtroom. As I became more aware of the legal struggle of my people, I decided I wanted to become an immigration attorney. I became career orientated…

California is the privileged place of nature, there is always sunny, liberty, strong economic development and is also one of the 6 strongest economies worldwide. After President trump winner, then many movements are rising. One of them is “Calexit” which makes about 1/3 of Californian want California break away from the United States. According to the LA Times newspaper, 'Calexit' would be a disaster for progressive values by Conor Friedersdorf, the writer states, “Californians are better…

According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics and police department in Salinas. The Salinas city violent crimes such as homicide, drug trafficking and others rates are considerably more than other cities of California. Although the violent crimes have been decreasing since 2000. Most of the gangsters are very active in the poorest parts of central and East of Salinas because of limited resources. We have a different statistics…

the 18th Street Gang, or Barrio 18. As for colors, they wear blue, and as for symbols, they use the number 18, or they occasionally spell the number out using Roman numerals. We see traces of the gang originating as far back as the 1950’s, in Los Angeles, California, but the first official sightings of the gang are seen in the 1980’s in the same location, and gained attention in the Rodney King Riots that occurred in 1992. The gang now operates in the United States of America, Canada, Central…

gang members have been raising the crime rate each year. According to Edge ethics of Department, they have collected data base and claim there are about 175,000 to 200,000 gang members here in California. Gang members who start at an early age meaning they just been recruited and do not know the consequence, start to lose interest in the lifestyle as they hit their early thirties. As they get older, gang members start to calm down as they know the outcome of the crime they have committed. When…

baggy jeans and long white or black oversized t-shirts, some times with ball caps. You can usually tell what gang someone is associated with by the color of shirt and pants they are wearing. Drug trafficking was spreading out of the streets of Los Angeles which was making gangs become richer, better organized and more strapped. Money was everything men lived for and they did anything to get it, but that does not mean they were smart with it. People who grow up in low income communities are more…