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Special Units
L.A. to Sever Ties with Prominent Gang-Intervention Agency
Los Angeles City Hall officials are preparing to sever ties with one of the more high-profile gang intervention organizations in South L.A., a decision the agency head decried as "an injustice" -- even dangerous because of the agency's success in reducing violence between rival gangs. The city's Gang Reduction & Youth Development office plans to end its contract with Unity T.W.O. Inc. at the end of the month.
July 15, 2009
Special Units
Denver Shifting Focus on Gang Intervention Amid Spike in Violence
Amid a spike in violence, Denver gang members were invited to a closed-door meeting Wednesday night where cops and prosecutors laid down the law while social workers and other service providers offered options for a better life.
March 6, 2015
Special Units
East Los Angeles Priest Publishes Gang-Intervention Memoir
The Rev. Greg Boyle, the Jesuit priest who founded Homeboy Industries, has published a memoir about his work steering wayward youth away from gang involvement.
March 16, 2010
Special Units
L.A. Police Aggressively Target Hard-Core Gangs
The mayor's office and the LAPD are promising to consolidate thinly scattered anti-gang resources and pour them into 12 beleaguered neighborhoods -- gang reduction zones -- where intense suppression would be coupled with gang intervention and prevention programs.
May 3, 2008
Special Units
Put Full Service Gang Units to Work
To combat the gang problem, use the components of prevention, suppression and intervention.
June 30, 2000
Gangs
How Good Kids are Seduced into Gangs – PART 2 – The Schoolyard Story
The bully "Giant" preyed on more than just your skinny crew. Often he picked on the girls. But now they know that you can protect them from the Giant. Are you a gang? Not yet, but if you continue in this "solution" without some intervention, you are on your way.
March 13, 2008
Special Units
Los Angeles To Record Less Than 300 Murders In 2010
About half of the murders in Los Angeles are gang crimes and considered "repressible," according to an editorial in the Los Angeles Times.
December 27, 2010
Patrol
Toronto Officer Under Investigation Following Scathing Letter to Mayor
Sergeant Mark Hayward’s letter blasted Mayor Tory for the cancellation of the Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (TAVIS) program.
July 10, 2018
Gangs
Gang Finances: Living Off the Grid
Gang members belong to a gangster culture, believing that only lame punks do menial work for "the man." Why be a lowly worker, when you can be the boss? As a carjacker, burglar, armed robber, or drug dealer, you are the boss. You own your own business. You call the shots.
February 14, 2011
Gangs
Gangs and Our Children
The number of local gang killings is low, but it's our common belief that one is too many. Whenever one of our children becomes a victim of gangs, it affects all of us. Specifically, when we personalize this problem and perceive the murdered child as a part of our family, it wounds our existence forever.
May 23, 2011
Gangs
Gang Truces Usually Turn Out Badly for Cops
Can you imagine what a gang formed from all aligned Crip and Blood gangs or between the Mexican Mafia and the Nuestra Familia might be capable of?
April 16, 2012
Gangs
Grand Theft Auto and Gangs
Gang members, especially juveniles, receive little incarceration and lots of probation for car crimes. To gang members this is like a dog with rubber teeth, lots of bark but no bite. Almost every gang member I came in contact with in East Los Angeles and South Central Los Angeles had several prior convictions for some type of car theft.
March 25, 2010
Gangs
The Grape Street Gang, the CCO, and Honcho Day
In the mid-1980s these crack and PCP drug wars exploded into unprecedented violence and open gang wars on the streets of Los Angeles and Compton. The evolution of fortified crack houses with iron sally port entrances and video surveillance and the appearance of gang members wearing body armor who engaged in firefights using military-style weapons and multiple shooters, forced the police to play catch-up tactically. And the cost in human lives was staggering.
December 2, 2009
Special Units
LAPD Sending 100 Officers Into South L.A. Amid Jump in Killings
Los Angeles police will send more than 100 elite Metropolitan Division officers into South L.A. as part of its effort to quell a surge in homicides, the LAPD said Thursday.
September 3, 2015
Gangs
Gangs and Electronic Surveillance—Part II
The girlfriend was provided with a “burnout phone.” A burnout phone is one that would be operational for a few months before being burned out. By that time the bill would have grown to many thousands of dollars, which they had no intention of paying.
March 5, 2012
Gangs
Keeping a Holiday Gang Truce
I don't remember any of these holiday truces actually working, but like those classic holiday movies they seem to make us all feel good for the moment, even if they are works of fiction.
January 10, 2013
Gangs
What Not to Do in Anti-Gang Programs
I don't mean to sound like Los Angeles or I personally have all the answers to the world's gang problems, but during my more than three decades fighting gangs, I have seen many programs in Los Angeles that have failed. I have learned what does and what doesn't work.
February 14, 2008
Special Units
The Youth Gang Problem: Fed Resources Are There to Assist
All types of communities across the nation, youth gangs disrupt public life and deplete law enforcement resources.
May 31, 2000
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