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Identifying Criminal Street Gangs
and
Gang Members
Where do we find street gangs??? How do you
identify gangs and gang members??? What is a
prison gang??? How is a prison gang different from
a street gang???
Gangs OR Us provides the answers to all of these
questions and more.
Where do we find gangs?
Odds
are that you have criminal street gangs in your community, your
schools, and your work places. Your jails and prisons
almost certainly have prison gangs and probably street
gang members who have been incarcerated and have not yet joined a prison
gang. Also, gangs are
becoming a problem within our armed forces and they are
receiving military training. And finally, perhaps, you
have gang members living in your own home and you do not
recognize the problem.
The picture below illustrates the
problem in our schools.
Wannabes - I suggest that you eliminate this term from your vocabulary
“We don't have gangs in our community” is a
phrase that is too often uttered by the city fathers,
the police, the chamber of commerce or the tourist
bureau in many communities. This is often followed by,
"All we have are a bunch of wannabes."
By calling gangs and gang members
"wannabes", a community is telling its citizens that it
has nothing to worry about.
The inference here is that since the gangs in your
community didn't originate in Los Angeles or
Chicago, they are not the dangerous gangs of New York,
the Chicago street gangs or the Los Angeles street gangs
- therefore, they aren't real
gangs. Nothing could be further from the truth. If a
group of youths in your community have banned together
and call
themselves by a particular name, whether the name is a
local street, a local neighborhood, or the Bloods, Piru
Bloods,
Crips, Latin Kings, Mara Salvatrucha, or Gangster Disciples, and if they use signs,
symbols and or colors; and if they are committing
crimes; they are a gang regardless of what members of
the community say.
Gang Identification
It is also easy to understand how parents fail to
recognize the
gang identifiers, such as
graffiti,
signs
and symbols,
tattoos, or particular styles of
clothing,
worn or used by their son or daughter. How does this
happen? They simply do not take the time to become aware.
Gangs OR Us offers complete gang
identification information and training for law
enforcement, corrections, Corporate America and
educators. We also offer community awareness
programs to interested citizen groups and other
organizations. Topics offered might include
information about street gangs,
prison
gangs,
female gangs, gang clothing, colors, graffiti,
hand signs, signs and symbols, tattoos, gang rivalries, and alliances.
Why is it important for individuals to
become aware?
For those who become aware, It is
extremely important to realize and understand that not
everyone who wears a particular color, or who has a
tattoo, is a gang member.
Bloods wear red,
Crips
wear blue. Today's youth, just like the youth of
past generations, like to be "faddish." To some,
wearing colors and sagging pants is cool.
Our
Goal - To Provide You With Basic Gang Identification
Methods
Since 1999, the goal of
Gangs OR Us
has been to provide
law enforcement and
corrections personnel,
parents,
teachers,
Corporate America and concerned citizens, the
assistance and knowledge necessary to determine if
street gangs
or prison gangs are in your community or your
state's prison and jail facilities. Most importantly,
this web site and our other web sites,
Teachers Against Gangs and
Students Against Gangs will assist those who
lack the awareness to recognize the fact that a son or
daughter, who may also be a student is practicing the
gang culture in the home or school.
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graffiti, tattoos, clothing, colors, gangs in your
community, victims of gangs or other activity.
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