Good Cop / Bad Cop Ex-Inglewood officer pleads no contest in off-duty gun brandishing incident

Ex-Inglewood officer pleads no contest in off-duty gun brandishing incident »

by Baxter Holmes (LA Times) November 4, 2009 A former Inglewood police officer who allegedly flashed a firearm at a motorist in a threatening manner while off-duty pleaded no contest today, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s...

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Veteran LAPD officer surrenders after being indicted on weapons charge

Veteran LAPD officer surrenders after being indicted on weapons charge »

by Scott Glover (LA Times) November 3, 2009 A veteran Los Angeles police officer who owns a private security company in Belize surrendered to federal authorities Monday after being indicted on a weapons charge. Johnny Augustus Baltazar, 50,...

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L.A. is seeing its police officers in a new light

L.A. is seeing its police officers in a new light »

by Scott Gold, Catherine Saillant and Joe Mozingo (LA Times) November 1, 2009 Hilda Samayoa did something a few weeks ago that would have been highly unusual in her South Los Angeles neighborhood not too long ago:...

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LAPD officers won’t be charged in MacArthur Park melee

LAPD officers won’t be charged in MacArthur Park melee »

by Richard Winton and Andrew Blankstein (LA Times) October 31, 2009 The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office will not file criminal charges against any of the LAPD officers who discharged rubberized bullets and wielded batons during...

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Street Gangs

Graffiti writer Alski, one of the first in Los Angeles »

Graffiti writer Alski, one of the first in Los Angeles

Alski throughup at the Rapid Transit District (RTD is now Metro) bus alley near 6th Street and Wilton, 1985. Alski, is considered to be one...

Oct 31 2009 / 7 comments / Read More »

Amazing 5-year old skater at Summer Night Lights »

Amazing 5-year old skater at Summer Night Lights

By Alex Alonso October 28, 2009 During the summer of 2009 I visited the 16 parks where the Summer Night Lights program had transformed the parks...

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Gangs, Migration and Crime »

Gangs, Migration and Crime

October 25, 2009 Many explanations have been offered about why gangs form. Such explanations, however, often understate the diversity of social forces that lead to...

Oct 25 2009 / 4 comments / Read More »

Godwin Heights Public School wants to “remove” student for “gang activity” »

Godwin Heights Public School wants to “remove” student for “gang activity”

Does a student at a local public school in Gran Rapids, Michigan deserve to be “removed”? By Alex Alonso October 20, 2009 Administrators from the Godwin Heights...

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After Fed Crack Down, Still Violence in Highland Park »

After Fed Crack Down, Still Violence in Highland Park

Alex Alonso for Streetgangs.com October 4, 2009 On September 22, 2009 Los Angeles City Councilman Ed Reyes said that the recent Avenues bust had removed a...

Oct 4 2009 / 20 comments / Read More »

Differences between gang and non-gang inmates on self-control and family influences »

Differences between gang and non-gang inmates on self-control and family influences

Alex Alonso September 29, 2009 Criminology researchers from California State University, Fresno (M. Jason Kissner, J.D., Ph.D.) and Arizona State University (David C. Pyrooz, M.S.) explored...

Sep 29 2009 / 1 comment / Read More »

FBI call MS-13 the most dangerous gang in America.

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Hip-Hop

Bow Wow, Common Call For End To Gang Violence »

Bow Wow, Common Call For End To Gang Violence

from RTTNews October 12, 2009 Bow Wow and Common have spoken out on the recent beating death of a Chicago teen who was attacked by gang members as he walked to a bus stop on his way home from school. The two joined other rappers such as Nas,...

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Musician’s slaying outside recording studio under investigation »

Musician’s slaying outside recording studio under investigation

from LA Now/LA Times October 5, 2009 Kevin Harris was an aspiring professional musician who had worked on a video with Lady G, a rapper from Atlanta. He helped local musicians with their work and wrote his own compositions. “He would go into the studio, play around on...

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Steve Lobel talks about Nipsey Hussle bringing the west back »

Steve Lobel talks about Nipsey Hussle bringing the west back

Alex Alonso for Streetgangs.Com September 30, 2009 Last month Nipsey Hussle had an album release party for Bullets Ain’t Got No Name Vol. 3 Mixtape at club Mood in Hollywood. We caught up with his manager, Steve Lobel, from A2Z Entertainment and he talked about Nipsey...

Sep 30 2009 / 13 comments / Read More »
Policing

Beck’s style and strategy are notably different from Bratton’s »

Beck’s style and strategy are notably different from Bratton’sby Joel Rubin (LA Times) November 5, 2009 For a man widely seen as the disciple of just-exited LAPD Chief William J. Bratton, Charlie Beck on Wednesday...

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Music Rapper Gets 2 Years for Cop-Killing Song

Rapper Gets 2 Years for Cop-Killing Song

Rapper Gets 2 Years for Cop-Killing Song By Jeff Douglas Sentinel Wire Services A Florida rapper is sentenced to two years in prison for a song called ‘Kill Me a Cop’ that he produced as a...

Aug 21, 2009 / More »
Lies I Heard Hyperbolic Attack of Illegal Citizens through a Misinformation Campaign

Hyperbolic Attack of Illegal Citizens through a Misinformation Campaign

By Alex Alonso September 9, 2009 As a gang researcher the issue of illegal immigration comes up often when being interviewed or asked to opine on the subject of Los Angeles gangs. For some,...

Sep 9, 2009 / More »
Good Cop / Bad Cop Ex-Inglewood officer pleads no contest in off-duty gun brandishing incident

Ex-Inglewood officer pleads no contest in off-duty gun brandishing incident

by Baxter Holmes (LA Times) November 4, 2009 A former Inglewood police officer who allegedly flashed a firearm at a motorist in a threatening manner while off-duty pleaded no contest today, the Los Angeles County...

Nov 4, 2009 / More »
Race Top civil rights attorney promises increased enforcement of discrimination laws

Top civil rights attorney promises increased enforcement of discrimination laws

by Teresa Watanabe (LA Times) October 31, 2009 The nation’s top civil rights attorney vowed Friday to step up enforcement of laws against housing bias, hate crimes, racially targeted predatory lending and other discriminatory acts...

Oct 31, 2009 / More »
Policing Beck’s style and strategy are notably different from Bratton’s

Beck’s style and strategy are notably different from Bratton’s

by Joel Rubin (LA Times) November 5, 2009 For a man widely seen as the disciple of just-exited LAPD Chief William J. Bratton, Charlie Beck on Wednesday exhibited some notable contrasts in style and strategy...

Nov 5, 2009 / More »
Street Gangs Graffiti writer Alski, one of the first in Los Angeles

Graffiti writer Alski, one of the first in Los Angeles

Alski throughup at the Rapid Transit District (RTD is now Metro) bus alley near 6th Street and Wilton, 1985. Alski, is considered to be one of the earliest Los Angeles graffiti writers during a...

Oct 31, 2009 / More »
News 2 men charged in slaying of DePaul student

2 men charged in slaying of DePaul student

by Kristen Mack (Chicago Tribune) November 5, 2009 Two reputed gang members were charged with murder Wednesday in the slaying of a DePaul University senior at a Halloween party. Narciso Gatica, 19, crashed the Logan Square...

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Politics President Obama wins peace prize

President Obama wins peace prize

Will President Barack Obama give General Stanley A. McChrystal the 40,000 troops requested to fight the war in Afghanistan? By Alex Alonso October 9, 2009 President Barack Obama won the Nobel peace prize during a...

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