Gangs in the United States

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    Salinas Gangs

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    A mafia or gang is an undercover a group of offenders. This group was created in the mid-19th century in Sicily because, people became sick go government. Then it was scattered throughout the West, the United States of America and Australia. The most famous gang in the United States is five gangsters which are located in New York. At the beginning, gang was related to a family. Therefore, gang is an organized group of family. Each family controls a city, and the conformation of these families is…

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    the country that no one vacations to. The truth of the matter is that we have well organized and established gangs in America working with entities such as Daesh, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hezbollah, and others right here in our backyards. One of the major players in this atrocious arrangement is La Mara Salvatrucha, more commonly known as MS-13. MS-13 is a Los Angeles based gang comprised of mostly Salvadorans and people of other Central American descent. They have long controlled the…

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    Violent Crime Theory

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    Theory, and Prevention The violent crime that chose to explain would be gang violence and the theory that I associated it with is Social Disorganization Theory. For the first time in decades, US politics have begun having a serious discussion regarding the deadly results of gun violence and the gang members who are behind it. Baltimore a city with just over 600,000 people, is one of the most dangerous cities within the United States, and have some of the highest violent crime numbers then…

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    The United States is experiencing an increase in Transnational Organized Crime (TOC), particularly from the Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13. President Trump identified this organization as a direct threat the U.S. national security during his campaign for office. President Trump reiterated this in the State of Union address in January 2018. Mara Salvatrucha’s rapid growth and transnational connections create a violent threat to the Nation Security of the United States. This essay…

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    strategies to be in competition with bigger name brand companies. Economic factors that were depicted in the film were, unlike the small farmers, the bigger companies had more money and resources due to cheaper labor costs and resources outside the United States. This put some of the small farmers out of business. For those who did not go out of business, they had to cut costs through laying off employees and reduce the use of certain resources for healthy apple growth, such as pesticides.…

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    Murder In Milwaukee

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    per 1,000 residents. Milwaukee is now four percent safer than all the cities in the United States. How can we make Milwaukee a safer place? How can we prevent homicides in Milwaukee? The way can prevent homicides in Milwaukee by reducing weapons or having more weapon control. Because most of the murders that are committed are due to a firearm. There have been an estimate of 15, 549 gun deaths in the united states. So more weapon control would be better. We should also have a healthier…

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    symbol of this dream to this day. The end of the nineteenth century saw a strong Sicilian emigration to the United States, including members of the mafia. They have a unique relationships with American criminals even to this day. The prohibition (1919-1933) allowed the mafia to acquire great power in the world of organized crime in the United States. In all the big cities of the United States, there were many poor districts and in all poor districts the criminal activity increased. Many…

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    Racism and segregation has a mass history in the United States, which has impacted our society greatly. There were many riots, boycotts, and strikes which occurred throughout the 1900’s. Many people simply wanted peace and to bring everyone together no matter what race or color. Others wanted to be separated from people with a different skin color and race. Whites and blacks were being separated from bathrooms and even restaurants. This resulted in conflict between our society which left many…

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    punishment (Weekly Reader 1). Because of this, United States and other developed nations should intervene in the conflict in Mexican drug and criminal violence, as much as they can to stop the problem of innocent people having their human rights taken away, and in hopes of the problem ending so it does not spread. The United States and other countries should intervene with Mexico’s drug violence because more people will escape Mexico and go into the United States to cause illegal immigration…

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    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…

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