Gang injunction

perspectives of young black and Latino boys on the system and how it should be changed. This environment would have produced a benevolent police officer who would have answered Jose’s cry for justice. In this alternate reality, Jose doesn’t join a gang for protection because he is self-empowered: “When a young man becomes self-empowered and believes he can change his marginal conditions and his environment, his ability to engage in his education and civic participation increases, leading to…

methods used throughout the world to attack gang violence and garner some sort of reconciliation and peaceful transition. The most important thing that transitional justice can do is provide space for a dialogue. As seen previously through injunctions, gang members have no means of discussing problems and hashing out differences. Having a space to communicate can turn the bloodiest conflict to one characterized by peace. For example, at the peak of the gang rivalry between the Bloods and the…

unit’s operations greatly. As SAGE officers heavily patrolled “the bottoms” they would look for evidence against the gang members, such as loitering, which would make them in violation of a civil court injunction. Therefore, the deputy district attorney could then request a restraining order for the police department and the police department would then be able to take these gang members into custody, instead of waiting for criminal activity to occur. The second part of this collaboration is…

This initiative sought a contempt of court sanctions against gang members who violated civil injunctions against assembly with other members of the gang. The program necessitated a close cooperation with the district attorney’s office in order to assist in drafting and obtain the civil remedies from the court which was not easy. Inglewood police officers teamed…

reviewing the enforceability of a preliminary injunction an appellate court is not bound by the trial court 's findings of fact, but may weigh the evidence anew and enter its own findings of fact and conclusions of law. Kennedy v. Kennedy, 160 N.C. App. 1, 8, 584 S.E.2d 328, 332 (2003). Thus, if we must consider the facts anew, the court has to determine the enforceability of a preliminary injunction just as how the trial court determines it. Preliminary injunctions may be issued by order by a…

them with the violence and segregations of organizations such as gangs and the crime rates? We see this occurring all around the world marking gangs as the number one problem to the situation. As a result we see many laws emerging across the country that focus on the gang “social problem”. Los Angeles, California is one of the largest cities known for the implement of gang injunctions and home to the deleterious battle among gangs ( the effects by). Whittier, California can be a prime…

Crime and gangs go hand in hand. They’ve existed for hundreds of years and will be here hundreds of years from now. The earliest gangs date back to the 1600s when the Italian mafia were established and in the 1800s for the Chinese Triads. Surprisingly, the two have more in common than one may conceive. Both groups originated because of resistance within their countries. The Italian mafia initiated while Sicily was still under the rule of Spain and the Chinese Triad’s during the anti-Manchu…

To what extent are gang members impacted by deterrability than other juvenile offenders? Part II: Topic In the United States, there is no universally accepted definition of gangs, and remains to be ambiguous with the flexible interchangeability of the term in academic, legal and media contexts. Based on the California definition provided by the Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act (1989) a criminal street gang is defined by ___. Average estimates on the number of gangs are 27,000…

prison gangs and committing serious crimes. For example, in the movie A Prophet, Malik killed Reyeb, but he never served a sentence for that offense. An individual could leave jail being worse than he or she went in. For example, Malik went to the detention center as a young boy who never knew anything about gangs but left this center as an assassin and a gang leader. Prison assassinations were common in most jails where one criminal mob would murder the leader or members of a rival gang. Drug…

Gangs in Spokane – How bad is it and what can we do about it? In the summer of 1994, I found myself entangled in a lifestyle nobody had seen coming, not even me. I had gone from honor roll student to thug gangster in just a matter of a few months. Life had changed dramatically, from not ever having been in any real trouble, to having multiple run-ins with the law, and an entire police force in the city of Spokane with my picture and vehicle info on their clipboards. I was running with a local…