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The Face of Cowichan's 'Gang' Problem
Society & Culture  (tags: teenagers, Gangsters, Native American, gangs )

Lone
- 26 days ago - bclocalnews.com
They have the hard-core names and adopted the mannerisms; they wear the de rigueur clothing and have the mobster lingo down, but the fact is Cowichan doesn't have organized Native gangs.
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The Face of Cowichan's 'Gang' Problem, Part Two
Society & Culture  (tags: Native American, teenagers, gangs, Gangsters )

Lone
- 26 days ago - bclocalnews.com
Gangs or no gangs, the Cowichan Valley has a problem within its Native youth community.
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Gangs An Increasing Problem for Northwest Tribes
Society & Culture  (tags: violence, gangs, drugs, alcohol, crime, corruption, children )

Lone
- 77 days ago - oregonlive.com
They did, but tempers soon flared. The 25 gang members -- Latinos on one side and Native Americans on the other -- began flashing gang signs. The cops moved in
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Mexico Police Agents Are Killed in Alleged Retribution By Cartel
Society & Culture  (tags: government, Mexico City, crime, death, Drug Cartels, police, murder, torture, retaliation, corruption, drugs, gangs )

Dee
- 116 days ago - online.wsj.com
MEXICO CITY-Twelve undercover federal police agents were captured, tortured, and executed by a relatively new and dangerous Mexican cartel calling itself La Familia, or The Family, officials said Tuesday.
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Immigrants Become Hostages as Gangs Prey on Mexicans
Society & Culture  (tags: society, Mexico, drugs, gangs, smuggling, kidnapping, immigrants, violence, crime, corruption )

Dee
- 152 days ago - online.wsj.com
A whispered 911 call from a cellphone early one January morning brought police to a home on West Columbine Drive in this Phoenix suburb. Inside, they found more than 30 half-naked and shivering men prisoners, police say, of a gang that had smuggled--
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Latino Gang Suspects Accused of Racial Attacks
Society & Culture  (tags: society, Gangs, Racism, hate, crime, violence, police, Federal )

Dee
- 169 days ago - online.wsj.com
LOS ANGELES -- Federal indictments were unsealed Thursday against 147 alleged members of a Latino street gang charging them with a range of violent crimes, including racially motivated attacks against African-Americans, in a major gang sweep.
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A New Approach to Gang Violence Includes a Multiple-Choice Test..
Society & Culture  (tags: society, Gangs, crime, corruption, children, environment, police, law, violence )

Dee
- 173 days ago - online.wsj.com
LOS ANGELES-In more than 40 years of studying this city's street gangs as a social psychologist, Malcolm Klein says his home was burglarized nine times. Now, the retired University of Southern California professor is offering the city what he hopes--
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Freedom Banned
Society & Culture  (tags: crime, gangs, education, school boards, censuring, violence, at risk teens )

Ariel
- 440 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Education today! School Board has suspended a 27 year veteran teacher for assigning her students The Freedom Writers Diary (inspirational best seller and a Hilary Swank film) about intercity gang teens changing their lives and their zealous teacher
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Rich Nations Copy Venezuela's Anti-Gang Music Schools
Society & Culture  (tags: music, gangs, youth, venezuela, scotland, los angeles )


- 502 days ago - uk.reuters.com
Venezuela's youth orchestras and choirs have helped thousands of children resist thug life in some of South America's most violent slums, and now wealthy countries are lining up to emulate the system.
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Fantasy: L.A. Is NOT on Brink of Interracial Crime Wave!
Society & Culture  (tags: mis-leading reports, criminologists, LA-California, interracial wave, violence, blacks, latinos, gangs )

Dove Flow
- 769 days ago - latimes.com
Three UC Irvine criminologists has concluded that L.A. is NOT on the brink of a major interracial crime wave, even tho the media have been increasingly fixated on the specter of black-versus-brown violence! Media sensualization...
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Police To Teach Signs of Gangs
Society & Culture  (tags: Wake-Up-America! Haunting-face-of-gangs, police, education, women, children, men, murdered, gangs, violence, corruption, crime, culture, death, drugs, family, law, media, murder, usa, world )

Barb
- 840 days ago - c-ville.com
An educational program from the city and county aims to open people's eyes to the world of gangs. C-VILLE obtained a copy of a PowerPoint presentation that is the result of gang investigations in the city and county.
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Two Teenage Girls Abducted From Virginia, Found in Georgia With a Member of the Gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13
Society & Culture  (tags: children, crime, culture, law, police, teens, violence, abduction, Gangs, MS-13, Mara Salvatrucha, FBI, politics, cover-up, corruption, freedoms )

Barb
- 840 days ago - macon.com
The 16- and 17-year-old girls, whose names were not released, were reported missing Monday, Fairfax County police said. The FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service were called in when it became apparent that the teens had not run away and were .....
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Justice in Waiting: Part Two
Society & Culture  (tags: Gangs )


- 1011 days ago - memberstories.bravejournal.com
The struggle of a single mom and her son to move out of a gang-controlled apartment in Texas continues...
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