[PDF] Glendale Boulevard Corridor Gang Injunction eBook

Author : Sophia Viscarra-Estrada
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Discrimination in law enforcement
ISBN : 9781339715520

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Abstract: The purpose of this project was to conduct a case study on the use of the public nuisance law used to obtain a civil gang injunction for Echo Park, California. This case study will discuss the origins of gang injunctions and will focus on the Glendale Boulevard corridor gang injunction enacted on September 26, 2013. A literature review was performed to understand the policies that led up to the formation of gang injunctions as well as current research discussing the impact it has on increasing public safety. The analysis was based on the two theoretical propositions: (1) gang injunctions further marginalize at-risk and gang-involved Latino youth by subjecting them to guilt by association and limiting their sources for social and cultural capita; and (2) injunctions are not always placed in communities because of high crime rates in the area. There are economically advantaged groups that may have an interest in developing and gentrifying the community and this can displace the less advantaged long-time residents of color. The findings from the case study are discussed.

Author : Ana Muñiz
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 081356977X

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Based on five years of ethnography, archival research, census data analysis, and interviews, Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries reveals how the LAPD, city prosecutors, and business owners struggled to control who should be considered “dangerous” and how they should be policed in Los Angeles. Sociologist Ana Muñiz shows how these influential groups used policies and everyday procedures to criminalize behaviors commonly associated with blacks and Latinos and to promote an exceedingly aggressive form of policing. Muñiz illuminates the degree to which the definitions of “gangs” and “deviants” are politically constructed labels born of public policy and court decisions, offering an innovative look at the process of criminalization and underscoring the ways in which a politically powerful coalition can define deviant behavior. As she does so, Muñiz also highlights the various grassroots challenges to such policies and the efforts to call attention to their racist effects. Muñiz describes the fight over two very different methods of policing: community policing (in which the police and the community work together) and the “broken windows” or “zero tolerance” approach (which aggressively polices minor infractions—such as loitering—to deter more serious crime). Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries also explores the history of the area to explain how Cadillac-Corning became viewed by outsiders as a “violent neighborhood” and how the city’s first gang injunction—a restraining order aimed at alleged gang members—solidified this negative image. As a result, Muñiz shows, Cadillac-Corning and other sections became a test site for repressive practices that eventually spread to the rest of the city.

Author : Matthew D. O'Deane
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 146655410X

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As gang violence continues to rise across the country and the world, police departments, prosecutors, and community members are seeking new methods to reduce the spread of gang-related criminal activity. Civil gang injunctions have become a growing feature of crime control programs in several states across the nation. Gang Injunctions and Abatement

Author : François Chastanet
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9185639850

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Cholo writing originally constitues the handstyle created by the Latino gangs in Los Angeles. It is probably the oldest form of the graffiti of names in the 20th century, with its own aesthetic, evident long before the East Coast appearance and the explosion in the early 1970s in Philadelphia and New York. The term cholo means lowlife , appropriated by Chicano youth to describe the style and people associated with local gangs; cholo became a popular expression to define the Mexican American culture. Latino gangs are a parallel reality of the local urban life, with their own traditions and codes from oral language, way of dressing, tattoos and hand signs to letterforms. These wall-writings, sometimes called the newspaper of the streets , are territorial signs which main function is to define clearly and constantly the limits of a gang s influence area and encouraging gang strength, a graffiti made by the neighborhood for the neighborhood. Cholo inscriptions has a speficic written aesthetic based on a strong sense of the place and on a monolinear adaptation of historic blackletters for street bombing. Howard Gribble, an amateur photographer from the city of Torrance in the South of Los Angeles County, documented Latino gang graffiti from 1970 to 1975. These photographs of various Cholo handletterings, constituted an unique opportunity to try to push forward the calligraphic analysis of Cholo writing, its origins and formal evolution. A second series of photographs made by Francois Chastanet in 2008 from East LA to South Central, are an attempt to produce a visual comparison of letterforms by finding the same barrios (neighborhoods) and gangs group names more than thirty five years after Gribble s work. Without ignoring the violence and self-destruction inherent to la vida loca (or the crazy life , referring to the barrio gang experience), this present book documents the visual strategies of a given sub-culture to survive as a visible entity in an environement made of a never ending sprawl of warehouses, freeways, wood framed houses, fences and back alleys: welcome to LA suburbia, where block after block, one can observe more of the same. The two exceptionnal photographical series and essays are a tentative for the recognization of Cholo writing as a major influence on the whole Californian underground cultures. Foreword by Chaz Bojorquez.

Author : Margaret Kohn
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Assembly, Right of
ISBN : 9780415944632

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : William Andrew Blomquist
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN :

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Not only are these water supplies not depleted, they are in fact relatively healthy despite California's recent six-year drought.

Author : Gregory J. Snyder
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0814740464

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On the sides of buildings, on bridges, billboards, mailboxes, and street signs, and especially in the subway and train tunnels, graffiti covers much of New York City. This book offers a rare look into this world of contemporary graffiti culture.

Author : Christian Parenti
Publisher : Verso
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781859843031

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Lockdown America documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the war on drugs. Its accessible and vivid prose makes clear the links between crime and politics in a period of gathering economic crisis.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 0309467136

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Proactive policing, as a strategic approach used by police agencies to prevent crime, is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States. It developed from a crisis in confidence in policing that began to emerge in the 1960s because of social unrest, rising crime rates, and growing skepticism regarding the effectiveness of standard approaches to policing. In response, beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, innovative police practices and policies that took a more proactive approach began to develop. This report uses the term "proactive policing" to refer to all policing strategies that have as one of their goals the prevention or reduction of crime and disorder and that are not reactive in terms of focusing primarily on uncovering ongoing crime or on investigating or responding to crimes once they have occurred. Proactive policing is distinguished from the everyday decisions of police officers to be proactive in specific situations and instead refers to a strategic decision by police agencies to use proactive police responses in a programmatic way to reduce crime. Today, proactive policing strategies are used widely in the United States. They are not isolated programs used by a select group of agencies but rather a set of ideas that have spread across the landscape of policing. Proactive Policing reviews the evidence and discusses the data and methodological gaps on: (1) the effects of different forms of proactive policing on crime; (2) whether they are applied in a discriminatory manner; (3) whether they are being used in a legal fashion; and (4) community reaction. This report offers a comprehensive evaluation of proactive policing that includes not only its crime prevention impacts but also its broader implications for justice and U.S. communities.