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officer could keep a gang member in place by using words. I always thought any officer could just beat it out of them or use some type of threat that will eventually backfire onto the officer. My friend’s aunt, who is now a homicide detective for Los Angeles, has been a probation officer as well. For her experience, to get information or some sort she basically had to use physical force to hear what she wanted. Of course that didn 't end to well, but to hear using word’s meaning just talking to…

sense of discrimination from the White Americans. The bad economy and prejudice from the law enforcement fueled these new generation with a kind of hatred they can act upon. This was a recipe that would eventually lead to huge riot in the middle of Los Angeles County in the city of Watts. The documentary described the city of South Central as a black community as a safe environment whereas today, it is known as a city to avoid at a cost because it is so dangerous. The documentary started off…

Cinema movement that curiously takes place in the United States. The film follows Travis Henderson, who begins the film as a mute man found wandering the desert in Texas by his brother Walt. Walt, with great effort, takes Travis back to his home in Los Angeles, where Travis reunites with his now 7-year-old son, after stopping contact and disappearing four years ago. Travis and his son Hunter reconnect and search for his mother. While films like Werner Herzog’s Stroszek comment rather…

Los Angeles, the “gang capital” of the nation. Over than 450 gangs in the city, some have been in existence since the 1950’s. All of these gangs combined have a individual total of about 45,000. Gang affiliation has taken a big role in the city of Los Angeles, in the last 3 years there has been a total of about 16,000 crimes, 491 of them were homicides. Gang affiliation has taken a big role on the lives of many young people, falling into drugs, and maybe to the course of committing murder or…

Salinas’s gangs. According to the Monterey County report, the Monterey County had more than 1600 registered gangster in 2003. However, the police and other security department assumed that the unregistered and registered gangs would be two or four times more than that. And according to the report, which was released in 2009 (Monterey County sees gang threat growing in different) it showed that, the Monterey County has 2,500 to 3,499 gangsters. A few later, another static came to the media. It…

Golden Gulag 1. How does the text circulate? The material analyzed by Ruth Wilson Gilmore circulates in the form of a book that was originally published on December 9, 2006. The author’s intended audience consists of individuals who have been directly or indirectly affected by any form of social racism and in particular those individuals who continue to fight for human rights. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, promises to analyze the…

is their economic status which it is influence by their race and ethnicity . In the book Always running : La vida loca : Gangs in LA we can go through the emotions , reason and the consequences of a guy named Luis that was once part of a gang in Los Angeles . Just like many immigrants that lived in the United States during the 90s , Luis faced exclusion and discrimination at his school since he did not understand English and he couldn't speak his native language (Spanish) without being treated…

to get out of poverty and thus they are no longer at risk to be controlled by the gangs. In poor countries that are facing with gangs violence like El Salvador, children 's lives are always in risks, inasmuch as gang members are around them all the times. For example, gangs take over poor places in El Salvador to manipulate the territory and people. Gang members go to school and they wait out of school to kids to come out. They monitor the children to know their lives and when they finally know…

During this period, there was intense racism in Los Angeles where African Americans were viewed as dangerous people. African Americans had little to no freedom because if they left their neighborhood to go to a white neighborhood like Lynwood and Alameda, they would get interrogated like a criminal. In the…

human courage and transcendence.” And what a great story it tells.” My book is Always Running and it is an autobiography by Luis Rodriguez. The book explains Luis’s past as a gang member in Los Angeles in the 1960’s. He was involved in crazy gang violence, such as rape, shootings, drugs, and got arrested multiple times. The school board needs to ban fiction from the curriculum because as readers read more fiction books which has made believe things, it has the new generation of kids thinking of…