A). Social Order pg. 192: A group’s usual and customary social arrangements, on which its member’s depend and on which they base their lives. There is multiple ways a gang communicates with its members, and it’s different with each clique. The language is different, yet means the same thing. They have codes that they use with their hands. They stay loyal to the gang or they die, they take care of their own. Every member is well taken care of within the group which is the misconception for some who join. Be in a gang and become a part of a family, a brotherhood, make more money than they would with an average job; for most immigrants in California jobs would be becoming a gardener, moving furniture around, manual labor at factories, etc. They …show more content…
There’s a hierarchy to gangs. There is the top dog, or the one who is above everyone and got there by his own means. This could mean he killed the original top dog, or he created the gang himself. The second would be the OG’s of the gang; they make sure everyone is on task. Then there are the members who know their place and know their jobs. Now everyone at this level has their own jobs to do; they recruit, or smuggle/ sell drugs, collect money, or kill. Of course everyone does a little of everything. Then the new recruits, they are still learning everything about the gang, and are watched closely. Chester and his friend were members, but they messed up when they talked about their gang’s inner workings. They were set up by their gang by placing a guy for them to kill and get arrested. This is how MS-13 keeps its order, by creating examples out of people. Even though Chester and his friend were not killed, he still faced punishment for his act of betrayal. The other type of control would be to jump in their members. This shows the new recruits violence isn’t optional, and if you step out of line you will deal with the consequences. Specifically, the guys who are in jail because they betrayed the gang and want protection know if they step out of the building they are dead. There is a code for gangs, it is 187, this means murder. When a member starts to see this pop up, they know the gang …show more content…
They had been doing it for years, since he was 8 years old. The gang knows the younger a member starts the more they will find murder, and drug deals to be natural to them. This is how they get the loyalty they demand from their members. Members think of the way they are protecting their families, and loved ones. Others are in for revenge and keep that on their mind to kill people and sell drugs. Everyone knows what they are doing, they are aware they are ending a life, and living a life of violence, but something brought them into the gang and they focus their attention on that one thing to execute the tasks given to them. Towards the end of the video, the girl’s killer says this about the gang he wasted his life defending, “We fight to protect territory that isn’t ours to begin with. We cover ourselves with guns to show we are tough, but inside we are weak.” Like all of those guys in jail, like the girl who became a rat, and Chester who agreed to be a part of the video, they get to a point where all the killing, violence and drugs take a toll on them and they want out. To most of them there is no “out,” because they know the task of getting out is extremely dangerous and there is a slim to none chance of completing it alive. Many of them flee to a part of the world the gang hasn’t reached, or they surrender to the law. Eventually, human conscious takes over and there 's nothing they can say
Operation Ceasefire Throughout Kennedy 's "Don 't Shoot " he shows us the method that consists of Project Ceasefire, statistics, and many instances where this project was a major success wherever it was implemented. The Operation Ceasefire entailed deterrence aimed at the group itself, not individuals. With Kennedy 's detailed account of the project, if a Police Chief approached me and asked me to implement operation ceasefire, I would do the following steps and in the following order: Establish necessary research components, pressure and enforce zero tolerance rule, call-ins, and finally, keep training law enforcement agencies periodically.
All the members came from a variety of different racial background, which set them apart from any other gang. Many saw it as a benefit to the group, since they were continually battling with other local gangs over territory. Primarily, many of the original members were second
Each gang has a hierarchal structure, boss, underboss, lieutenant, and soldiers; the boss sets principals, rituals, and
The Gang has a long history in dealing with many major crimes. Some of these include; weapons trafficking, dealing with narcotics and most importantly, Murder. In 2013, police have arrested 43 gang
Gang Injunctions against Diablos and Westside Gang Throughout the years, communities have been warned and targeted constantly against gangs and their formations. Gangs have expanded in quantity and their influence has expanded in different cities all throughout California. According to the Escondido Police Department, "Gangs can be organized around race or ethnic groups, money-making activities, or territory. Most gang members are male; they range in ages from 8 to 22 years.
As you stated these youth joined a gang to feel accepted and gain the support they were lacking.
Also known as: ‘’blood in, blood out.’’ Gang banging at such a young age became natural. It was all around me. My older brother was a gang member and kept secrets from me and always had it all. He had all of the respect in the city.
Basically the family like slash brotherhood that is attach in gangs. Whereas the same as your actual family, where you’re in a tough situation, your family is there to give you a helping hand, that’s the same when it comes to gangs, they notice a sense of trouble, and are willing to retaliate with violent and deadly force. Gangs also provides a sense of security, like a street corner that has been claimed, gang territory to point it out. Where all the members that a part of gang have a place where they do not feel threated by their
Prison gangs thrive on crime within the facility. If not addressed their involvement in crime will continue to grow and pose a threat to other inmates, staff, and the institution. If procedures are not put into place then gang membership will only continue and remain a safety concern. Administration must ensure their staff members are adequately trained and know how to act and deal with the gangs. Because the prison community is so private more research needs to be done to understand the workings of prison gangs and get more current, detailed, data.
He was convicted on 18 murders and attempted murders. Their gang colors are black and gold. Black represents death and gold represents life. They have an emblem that represents them which is the five pointed crown. Each point stands for something which is love, respect, sacrifice, honor, and obedience.
The El Salvadoran government’s recent “Mano Duro” policies created a massive overcrowding of prisons where established MS-13 members recruit the few adolescents not yet involved in gang activity. To become a full-fledged member of MS-13, recruits must show their allegiance to the gang by getting tattoos all over their bodies. Additionally, male members are beaten for thirteen seconds and female members must engage in sexual intercourse with every male member of that particular
If you were ever approached by someone that you know or don’t know and they were recruiting people into their gang, all you have to simply do is just decline their request or just simply walk away. Joining a gang can lead into some serious side effects throughout your entire life. Living in this certain lifestyle can give you a higher chance of you, your family, or one of your friends, getting shot by another person. This can also lead you to go to
Members of gangs live off of the power they feel they have on their communities and continue to intimidate society through their violent
Gangs The effect of joining a gang will ruin your life for ever. There is six ways joining a gang will mess up your whole life its drugs,droping out of school, tattoo of the gang, killing , jail time and lossing family. Its bad enough that you have to get jumped in or have sexual relation (this go for the famel) but once you are in drugs become apart of your life. You go from being a sweet little kid to slaging dope on the corner for durty ice.
These now called “gangs” which blacks didn’t call them were a form of identity for kids, and a form of acceptance and comfort. As more of these so called African American clubs were formed, the tensions and rivalry only grew higher. From the video, Groups of youth were depicted into local neighborhoods being criticized by other neighborhoods. This lead to a violence between two gangs, which in its worst case was labeled by the title Crips and Bloods or the colors of blue and red. This violence has been ongoing for approximately forty years now, and the body count is only getting higher.