North Side Gang

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…

Los Angeles County is the most dangerous place in California because of the gang culture that moves around it (Bartholomew, 2015). Cholo, ese, vato are all words that hispanic gang members use to refer to one another. Here in California, Hispanic gangs began to form during the early 1920s or as also referred to the Roaring Twenties. These groups started to form and get together in their neighborhoods or as known as the barrios. These individuals who got together in these groups all had similar…

Gang leader. Over the decades, severe violence and drug trafficking has brought a serious negative connotation to this term. However, the connotation could not be any further away on the spectrum from the annotation. Something that is shown in ‘Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets’ by Sudhir Venkatesh, The book begins with a background narrative of Sudhir so the reader may obtain their own viewpoint through his eyes and experiences. During Sudhir’s first week as a…

I raise the question of: How many out of those who were and are convicted actually deserved the sentence received? In 2006, a man was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for being an enforcer for a gang called the Terminators in Bridgeport, Connecticut. This man brutally fought with competitor gangs, sold heroin, and killed a potential witness. Taking the previously stated strikes into consideration, it would be easy to say that this man does, in fact, deserve to be sent to prison, correct? It…

Los Angeles is one the greatest cities to live, but it has it negatives side. Los Angeles is known for police corruption but not as bad as other countries in the world. This cause does no help Los Angeles which has a lot of crimes. This makes LA a dangerous city because if the cops are letting the killers, rapist, and drug dealers. Then how can LA become a better place if the people doing the crimes are getting away because of police corruption. Although not all police men and women are not…

Santa Ana, California located in the county of Orange and is home to approximately 334,227 people who have all once in their lifetime been a witness of the gang violence. Throughout the years street gangs criminal street gangs have become one of the most serious crime problems in California; consisting of assaults, drive- by shooting, homicides, and finally home invasion robberies. The main concern is having teens in the community exposed to such violent acts at such a young age encouraging them…

involved with gangs since he was eleven years old. He was attracted to the power he saw when he witnessed a gang burst into his elementary school chasing a guy and noticed everyone run and hide. At that point in life he was not in the best neighborhood and was not structured to know not to join gangs. By the time he was a teenager he was committing full on crimes and let his gang revolve his life. Like father like son Ramiro his first-born boy during his adolescence stage joined a gang. Although…

rise in the rap industry. Men like N.W.A. generally wore 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…

hero. Fans also In this time where people come and go leaving their mark for a short amount of time it is truly amazing to see someone stay and continue to impact the world and make it a better place for everyone. He gives hope to the people stuck in gang ridden areas, to the people that do not feel like they are worth anything in society. By doing…

The rise of gang activity amongst adolescents in the Wilmington, Delaware area was sited in a 2012 audit of the Juvenile Systems of Delaware stating that, “A 2012 review of Delaware Juvenile Justice System conducted by Comprehensive Strategy Group brought attention to Gang-related violence, making the assessment and addressing of gang violence as one of the highest priority recommendations. This recommendation was supported in part by a 300% increase in gang members from…