Los Angeles Police Department

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…

Gang violence in America is a huge problem but Canada’s gang population has become a strong issue with the tremendous amount of groups they have reached. A youth gang is an association including various amounts of people who are a part of criminal activity and who have created a group identity. These groups usually are formed in places that have people facing disadvantages and inequality within their community. Gangs deal with a high usage of drugs, weapons and violence. Youth gangs have…

A Beautiful Yet Destructive Creation Not all street gangs are made for wrong doing. Many people might think down on the creation of gangs but it is a part of survival in their region. Street gangs, which pull peers into gangs for protection and social status, assemble to protect their neighborhood, family and friends from other street gangs thus causing rising crime rate and innocent people dying because of this. First off, there are a few definitions for gangs because authorities had a hard…

grandfather came to United States it was originally just to work and make some money to take back to his family, but that changed when he got married. Magdaleno Rubalcava, my grandfather, was born on a little ranch in Los Zapotes, Cuquío, Mexico. He was the youngest of over 10 children. Los Zapotes when my grandfather was born was just a bunch of ranches and till this day they aren’t as modernized as other parts of Mexico but they do have more houses and are using more modern technology. When I…

Growing up in the early 1960’s to 1970’s was a tough time for my parents but not just them everybody. This was because of all the negative that was around them. There were many things for kids their age to do, and they took the better route in life. Compared to now, the gang banging is not something that you see a lot of today. Both my parents grew up in this time period and my dad has a different outlook on life. The things that are going in today’s society are from when my father was child. It…

videos the use of graffiti and gang signs are directed toward certain gangs that have meaning and as a result can be used as call outs and warnings. In GiA this was expeanded on, a police department in Detroit has been taking photos and creating a document that is used to explain each symbol and gesture to keep the police activley involved. I thought the phrase "Infilitration leads to information" was rather clever and there was a lot of truth in…

know has worked and can help the young people and the community” (Dys). This program is good, point blank. Teens go into this thinking they are all big and bad and realize when they get in jail, they are broken down. Now, other police stations want in on the action. One police officer has said “we take the youth, break them down, and build them back up (Dunn). The youth needs to get broken down, to get back up a better version of…

During the 1980’s the streets of Los Angeles, CA were turned into a major war zone. There were shootings everywhere you turned, from storefronts to schoolyards, no place or person was safe. Riots broke out and windows were being smashed. All of this from two of the most notorious gangs, the…

In Sanyika Shakur’s memoir, Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, the audience follows the events that transform Monster Kody Scott into Sanyika Shakur. While writing his memoir from prison, the book starts in 1975 with his graduation from elementary school and initiation into the Crips. His initiation included a brutal beating from fellow Crips members, which immediately followed his first gang shooting against the Bloods. At the age of thirteen, Kody Scott earned the nickname…

enforcement agents details about the gang. They can offer the individual money, a deal for a lesser jail sentence and even offer protection from the gang. However, it can be dangerous because most gangs will kill those individuals that talk to the police or F.B.I. about the gang. Another way to gather information is to have undercover cop’s join the gang in order to research them. Researchers can talk to gang members that are in prison or jail to gather Intel about the…