Financial Crisis Hinders Non-Profit, Law Enforcement Efforts to Quell Crime.
By Nathan Houle (Daily Nexus – UCSB)
November 30, 2009
In 2007, 14-year-old Ricardo Juarez stabbed Luis Angel Linares, 15, to death in front of Saks Fifth Avenue on State Street. The incident was a wake-up call for locals, many of whom were unaware of the gang problem [...]
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By TERESA MASTERSON (Nbcnewyork.com)
Mon, Nov 30, 2009
Two men were brutally beaten by about a dozen bouncers at the 40/40 Club in Atlantic City this weekend. The frenzied attack was caught on tape.
New York City-based disc jockey “DJ Zeke” shot a video of what appears to be 13 staffers of the 40/40 Club kicking, beating and [...]
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John Brownlee (Geek.com)
Nov. 30, 2009
New York City police officers have a hard time controlling violent gang crime, and they are increasingly turning to technological solutions to get a handle on it. The logic works as follows: since a lot of gang crime is performed by teenagers, why not harness social networking and micro-blogging sites like [...]
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25th homicide in ‘09 matches last year’s record total
LAITH AGHA (Monterey County Herald)
11/30/2009
Far removed from his days of gang affiliation, Carlos Alfaro was a dedicated father of two and out-of-work bank employee.
Early Sunday, the 27-year-old Salinas man became the city’s 25th homicide victim in 2009, a grim toll equaling the city’s record for most homicides [...]
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By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
November 29, 2009
PARKLAND, Wash. – A man with an extensive criminal past — whose 95-year prison sentence was commuted in Arkansas nearly a decade ago — was being sought Sunday as a “person of interest” in a deadly ambush on four police officers who were gunned down inside a coffee [...]
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BY Simone Weichselbaum (NY Daily News)
November 29, 2009
The city’s street gangs are becoming tweet gangs.
Manhattan’s young thugs have turned to Twitter, and the cops who track them are fast behind, the Daily News has learned.
It’s old-school crime meets new technology: attacks being plotted – and thwarted – 140 characters at a time.
One investigator recently warned [...]
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The Associated Press
November 29, 2009
PARKLAND, Wash. (AP) — A gunman burst into a coffeehouse Sunday and opened fire on four police officers as they sat working on their laptops, killing the three men and one woman in what an official described as a targeted ambush.
Pierce County Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said officers were looking for [...]
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from presstv.ir
November 28, 2009
At least 13 people, including a child and a woman, have been killed in the ongoing drug-related violence in the restless northern territories of Mexico.
Mexico’s justice department officials in the northern state of Chihuahua say that an eight-year-old boy and a woman are among victims of criminal gang violence on Friday.
Bodies from [...]
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by Marc Levy (Associated Press)
November 28, 2009
YORK, Pa. (AP) — A little girl who trembled in her house as a National Guard tank rumbled past during York’s chaotic 1969 race riots has grown up to become the first black mayor of the central Pennsylvania city.
Kim Bracey, 45, an energetic veteran of the struggling manufacturing city’s [...]
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By Brian Day (Pasadena Star News)
Posted: 11/28/2009
DUARTE – No one was injured late Friday when apparent gang-members opened fire on a Duarte home, authorities said.
The drive-by shooting was reported about 8:45 p.m. in the 1900 block of Bradbury Avenue, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. Jeff Walker said.
The attackers were described only as two black males [...]
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Associated Press
November 28, 2009
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Albuquerque authorities had to use pepper rounds to break up an unruly crowd outside a funeral home as rival gangs squared off Friday night.
Dozens of Bernalillo County sheriff’s deputies and Albuquerque police officers swarmed the Gabaldon Mortuary after hearing about a possible gang fight. Police said a large [...]
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The battle over controversial Lil’ Wayne film
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
November 24, 2009 12:44 p.m. EST
In 2008, superstar rapper Lil’ Wayne allowed a film crew full access to his hectic life.
Cameras rolled as he smoked marijuana, drank soda mixed with prescription cough syrup, recorded rap lyrics almost constantly, toured the world and enjoyed the trappings [...]
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