Transcript GANGS, DRUGS & VIOLENCE A DEADLY MARRIAGE

For our purpose we will define a gang
as “a group of young persons who
claim identification to this group and
who come together for criminal or
negative purposes.”
Why?
Why do youth get involved in the gang lifestyle when
there is so much evidence around them that it is a “Dead
End”?
SUBSTITUTION
BLESSED IN
Gangs have become prevalent in our
communities.
If you do not believe this take a walk through our
schools and take note of the graffiti on the
walls.
Our children face gangs and their threat daily.
Many children feel it is safer to join a gang to
avoid intimidation by that gang and protection
from others.
Unfortunately, it can be going from the frying pan
into the fire.
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ashes to ashes dust to dust
in blood we trust in ckarbs we
bust
if u kill a ckarb win a prize
kill a blood your whole family
dies!!!!
and remeber blue birds cant fly in
the red bloody hell
5poppin 6droppin
5flyin 6dyin
5pimpin 6limpin
5buckin 6duckin
5comin 6runnin
5flaggin 6draggin
let it rain let it drip bust a ckrab in
the lip
let it fall let them trip
flip the clip and drop a crip!!
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Let it rain let it flood
Let a crip kill a blood
Let it rain let it drip
Kill a slob cuz I claim crip
let it rain let it thunda
Bury a slob six feet unda
When I die show no pity
Bring my soul to gangsta city
6 flyin 5 dyin
6 poppin 5 droppin
Can’t stop won’t stop
BK all day everyday till my blu
casket drops
Throw da C’z up and tha b’z down
Fucc all slobs kill em wid mah
knife
BK all day every day
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The modern gangs that we are dealing with in the
Caribbean can trace their roots back to the early 70’s
and the formation of the first large gang “Crips”;
Gangs existed before that but were generally smaller
and localized to neighborhood ;
Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the crips,
claimed that neighborhood gangs were formed for
protection, initially violence was limited to fist fights.
Raymond Lee Washington, co-founder of the crips, left
the gang life when weapons began replacing fists;
What happened that drive by shootings replaced fist
fights in gang warfare!
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This is what gang life is all about.
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Crime has always been the under current of
modern day street gangs;
As has violence;
However, the absurd violence that we see
today came out of the 80’s and corresponds to
the advent of Crack.
MYTH
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Gang is family;
Gang is friends;
Gang is safety;
Gang is money;
Gang is respect;
Gang is power;
REALITY
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Gang is a drug cartel;
If there is so much money
why do so many gang
members live with their
mothers?
If there is so much safety
why are they dying in the
gutters?
Respected or Feared?
How fragile is the power?
In legitimate business this is
Figurative
In the drug business this is
Literal
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The trafficking of narcotics is an offense itself;
This offense as we have seen leads to violence
and crime between the traffickers;
This is not the end of the problem as the use of
these substances leads to addictions;
Addictions lead to crime as addicts due
anything and everything to feed an addiction;
Do not believe me ask any criminal lawyer,
police officer or member of the justice system
what portion of the job is directly related to
drugs.
Tourism is important to our way of life it must be
remembered tourist to our shores come from
countries that also have gang problems and are
often able to recognize signs of a gangs
presence and its meaning.
“GRAFFITI”
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Gang experts generally agree that any antigang strategy must begin by addressing the
issue of gang graffiti.
Note the term gang graffiti, not all graffiti is
gang graffiti, some graffiti is art, other is
relatively harmless youthful expression and
simple vandalism.
Gang graffiti is fundamental to the gang and its
continued presence empowers a gang and
terrorizes those familiar with its meaning.
Ownership and Advertisement
Advertisement and newspaper
Intimidation
Partnership of Community, Police
and Business and implement the
following:
* Report It. – community
* Read It. – community and police
* Record It – police
* Remove it – community, police and
business
GANG CONTROL
COMMUNITY CONTROL
NEGATIVE
POSITIVE
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Steady Employment;
Marriage and Family;
Non-delinquent Peer Groups;
Cessation of Substance Abuse;
Victimization and Crisis.
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The short answer is No!
Gang membership fills a very different need, it
is much more complex, as we saw at the
beginning gang membership plays a much
larger role in a members life than merely
providing a means to an end.
Additionally gang members face substantial
pressures from within not to leave “blood in
blood out”
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The great irony when dealing with desistance
among gang members is: the reason that youth
become involved with gangs is the same reason
it is hard to get them out:
Join gangs to find a family;
Join gangs as they do not feel part of the
greater community “marginalized”.
All that is necessary for
the triumph of evil is
that good men do
nothing.
“Edmund Burke”
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Early intervention is key
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Gang indoctrination begins young, sometimes as
early as birth:
 Family
 Community
 Sense
of belonging
 Safety
 Identity
A
purpose
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takes a whole
village to raise a
child!
What
happens when
the village ignores the
child?