Essay On Gangs

A gang is a group of recurrently associating individuals, close friends, or family members with identifiable leadership and internal organization, identifying with or claiming control over territory in a community, and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or other forms of illegal behavior. Although gangs exist worldwide, there is a larger level of study and knowledge in the United States. Gangs are most prominent in larger cities and urban areas, and in prisons and jails. Gangs have been in existence since the American Revolution dating back in late 1700’s. For more than 100 years, Gangs have been an integral part of Urban American Society. Gangs are gradually moving their way up in the Rural and Suburban areas as well. Gangs often come into conflict with one another over there “turf” or the stealing of their drug purchasing customers, street gangs in particular. The Center for the Study and Prevention of violence reports that gang problems in the United States have escalated rapidly since the 1960’s, and continues in its growth today. Many gangs have been researched here in the United States, but one street gang in particular has earned the title given by the FBI as most dangerous street gang in the United States. The gang’s logo is MS-13, which is short for Mara Salvatrucha.

United States Most Dangerous street gang!

A common thing seen throughout all gangs, biker and or street gangs would be drug Distribution. According to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment report, gangs are responsible for an average of 48 percent of violent crime in most jurisdictions, and up to 90 percent in others. That alone is almost half of crimes being committed, and because gang violence increase rapidly it could possi...

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...cate, and need to be on the lookout for recruitment of their children in certain schools throughout certain locations. To prevent the affiliation from furthering their territories, educate your children of their recruitment process, and provide the love support kids seek at home, so they would not go elsewhere searching for it. This gang is now the problem of the United States, their crimes have led to draw public attention. Very often they are illegal immigrants and currently America law officials are using methods such as arrest, incarceration, and deportation. Deportation is the least effective method being that the individuals will soon return back to America more violent and with more recruited members. I think the most effective method would be death penalty, being that when their incarcerated they are somehow still connected to murders outside of the prison.