By Alex Alonso
November 18, 2009
The Fulton County coroner has ruled Ashley “AJ” Jewell’s death was not a result of the injuries that he sustained in a fight he had with Frederick Richardson on October 2, 2009. Jewell was the ex-fiance of Kandi Burruss, a cast member on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of [...]
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November 13, 2009
StreetGangs.com
LOS ANGELES – On August 2, 2009 there was a massive police response were about 100 teens were having a social function at Norman O Houston Park on La Brea & Stocker in Baldwin Hills in the City of Los Angeles.
There was a fight between two girls earlier in the day but [...]
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Alski throw-up 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 time when tagging was a foreign word. He was born in the Bronx, New York from Puerto Rican parents and moved [...]
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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 into active vibrant peaceful locations of recreational fun. At Denker Park in South Los Angeles, I noticed an amazing 5-year old skater that was honing his skills in at the [...]
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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 the formation of gangs. While it is widely understood that gangs are a product of the underlying problems experienced in cities, it should also be understood that small-scale problems that take [...]
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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 Public School district in Grand Rapids, Michigan are trying to “remove” a student from one of their schools for perceived gang activity. The unknown student has not committed an act [...]
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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 lethal threat from the streets. Last night six persons were shot and wounded in what is being described by the LAPD as a gang-related attack by Avenues members against their [...]
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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 differences between gang and non-gang inmates within a large county jail in California. The researchers were interested in comparing the effects of personality characteristics (self-control) and social learning influences (family gang [...]
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Alex Alonso
September 28, 2009
When Sarah Kruzan was eleven, a 31-year old pimp recruited her into the life of prostitution and he put her on the streets when she was 13. Coming from a broken family, she looked at this abuser as a father figure but after several years of abuse, she murdered her pimp [...]
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Alex Alonso for Streetgangs.com
September 25, 2009
All the applications are in and now the city personal department must submit their best candidates of the 24 applicants for the next chief of the LAPD to the five-member police commission. Although it has been reported that the personal department will submit six applicants for review, according the [...]
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