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Black males have been racially profiled for a countless amount of years. Currently it’s continuously growing all around the world’s social media. For centuries black males have been labeled and stereotyped as gang bangers, drug dealers, dead beat fathers, athletes, entertainers, democrats, lower life expectancy, raised in single parent households, criminal backgrounds, uneducated, and government assisted. Media is how the world broadcast its news for people to be informed about newly received and

Many families are left devastated from losing their children to gang related killings. For example, Javon Reilly, a student who went to Van Horn High School was walking home and was shot. Tymon Reed and Javon had an issue because one of Javon’s friends stole some marijuana. When Javon was walking home Tymon happened to drive past him and pulled out a gun on him, Javon tried to wrestle the gun out of his hand and that’s when he was shot. After getting shot Javon attempted to limp away but Tymon

During the 1970s and 1980s criminal street gangs were one of the most serious criminal offenses in California. A gang member is defined as “any person who actively participates in any gang with knowledge that its members engage in or have engaged in a pattern of criminal gang activity, and who willfully promotes, furthers, or assists in any felonious criminal conduct by members of that gang.” In the novel Monster: the Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur, the author depicts the

Respondent: When I was 14 or 15. When I first experienced, what'd you say, violence? Interviewer: (37:19) Gang violence. Respondent: When I got put out of the house on 100s, and i had to fight the little boys that were jealous of me because I was their size, so they kept trying to pick on me. I just stood up to them and I fought them. Interviewer: (37:58) But were they actually a gang, or just a bunch of kids from the neighborhood that were hanging together? Respondent: No, they were a gang. Interviewer:

Bernadette Stafford Final Draft May 20, 2015 Native American Gangs Prior to European colonization, North America was home to up to ten million indigenous people with distinct cultures and hundreds of languages. Within 500 years the population was halved through disease and genocide. Today, Native American’s make up 5.2 million or 2% of the US population (US Census 2013). This population has suffered the trauma of genocide, dislocation, poverty and oppression mostly through policies and confrontations

I am writing this because I feel that in West Jordan and in many parts of Utah there is lots of gang violence and many problems we need to resolve. I care because when I was going to West Jordan Middle School I was always getting in fights and it was always with someone part of a gang and they were the reason I always got into fights. Also lots of kids are going down the wrong path at that school. Theres many laws that get broken their every day and the teachers and staff don’t seem to care. One

Outlaw motorcycle gangs in australia https://c479107.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/files/10980/width668/y6ccv75q-1337748850.jpg By Brooke Larkins Year 11 2012 http://s1.aecdn.com/images/news/outlaw-motorcycle-gangs-live-hard-die-free-14383_23.jpg ‘Bikie gangs are like any other organisation or club. There are criminals in all walks of life’ Almost 40 motorcycle clubs are linked to criminal activities. These are referred to as outlaw motorcycle gangs. ‘Outlaw’ is not a legal definition; it rather

Reporter:2 It defines a youth gang as: "An organized group of adolescents and/or young adults who rely on group intimidation and violence, and commit criminal acts in order to gain power and recognition and/or control certain areas of unlawful activity 2." are involved in a significant number of delinquent incidents that produce consistent negative responses from the community and/or law enforcement agencies. There are other important characteristics of a youth gang that help us to understand the

Children living in a single-parent “Children with single parent families often face disadvantages compared to those from two-parent families. One in four children in the U.S. are being raised by a single parent-a percentage that has been on the rise and is higher than other developed countries” (Armario 1). This means every year single parenting is growing and a child is having trouble than the average child should. Being a single parent is ineffective parenting because there is a lack of parental

government is choosing not to respond could be a good move or a bad move, good being is if terrorists see they don't care or aren't responding might make them not attack or vice versa. Also with the rise in gang activity, in effect of the illegal drug industry, the police should be making sure the gangs in check instead of guarding a construction