The primary cause of violence in the African-American community is gang activity. These sobering statistics are affecting our community in a terrible way. Street gangs have been around since the nineteenth century. (CITATION) Gang violence is a problem in every major city in the United States and membership in gangs is on the rise The FBI’s 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment report states that there are more than 1.4 million active gang members in the United States. This is a 40% increase over the estimated 1-million gang members in 2009.
Due to this, the number of pharmacists in the state of New York more than tripled during the Prohibition era. For people unable to get a hold of medicinal whiskey and such, there were illegal ways to drink during Prohibition. Organized crime began to flourish in large cities where crime bosses, such as Al Capone, had noticed the incredibly high demand for alcohol and the extremely limited access for the average citizen. This presented lucrative opportunities for gangsters to take over the import, manufacture, and distribution of liquor. Al Capone, and many other criminal groups during this time, were able to build their criminal empires mainly on profits from illegal
But throughout the years there has been other description of the term gang where it comes from the word “gonge” a term that originally meant a journey but later referring to a “gonge” of sailors in the fifteenth century. There are four kinds of “gangs” which were predecessors of the street gangs of today: 1. Secret Societies; 2. Gangs of Outlaws in the Wild West; 3. Racist gangs like the Klu Klux Klan; and 4.
Gangs in the United States CCJ 4656 Instructor Khatibloo May 4, 2013 Cheryl Pulley Gangs in the United States The crips gang originated in Los Angeles in the mid to late 1960s. The crips gang has loosely constructed subgroups, most of which are from specific neighborhoods. Members dress in a specific fashion, display colors (blue associated with crips); use monikers, sometimes display gang names or monikers on clothing, and communicate through graffiti. When gang members become more serious about drug trafficking, they also become more discreet about calling attention to themselves with these signs of gang affiliation. (www.gangsorus.com) The name crip is short for cripple.
Jacqueline Anouge Dr. Juan Orejarena GE2021 – Section 4 November 25, 2010 Gang Violence in New Jersey According to the 2007 New Jersey State Police Gang Survey, five gangs were reported present in fifty or more of New Jersey municipalities. In this survey they have gathered enough information to show that the Bloods, Latin Kings, Crips, MS-13, and Pagans Motorcycle Club were the gangs found present consistently throughout towns and cities of New Jersey. They have also concluded that in 2007 one other gang was roaming forty-six municipalities statewide; Ñeta (http://www.state.nj.us/njsp/info/pdf/njgangsurvey-2007.pdf). The New Jersey municipal system is constantly trying to find new ways to help make the streets
Although gangs actually emerged around 1783 on the east coast of America, Urban gangs or “street gangs” became prevalent during the early part of the nineteenth century. In Frederick M. Thrasher’s The Gang, he wrote that the miserable living conditions and disadvantages of juvenile gang members were not the only reasons for the emergence of street gangs. He stated that adolescent development played a key role. (Thrasher,1927) Gangs have always posed a dilemma and during the 1960’s changing social and political climates were ingredients for the development of super gangs. Gangs became involved in predatory crimes and engaged in a battle for turf and the control of illegal markets.
Throughout American history from the early 20th century onward, organized crime has always been relevant and continues to grow as an empire in modern day society. Some of the most popular organized crime groups in America are the Italian Mafia or El Cosa Nostra, the Irish and Jewish mobs, and the South American and Mexican drug cartels which evolved later in the 20th century. Organized crime began with the massive European immigration to the East coast of the United States particularly in New York City. There were more people than jobs so young men had to turn to crime. After, organized crime grew quickly in the 1920’s during prohibition through the smuggling of liquor and separate crime organizations worked together in order to have more control over the law.
Young people started to get involved in street gangs by working as street soldiers in drug distribution networks, arming themselves, and began to kill each other at a high rate. Fortunately, this event began to slow down in the mid-1990s. Violent crimes have been implicated with alcohol abuse in a substantial proportion of violent crimes. Although not given the concentrated public attention that abuse of illegal drugs has received, it continues to threaten public
Police funding has increased by $11.4 million due to this act yet I could’ve gone to the common doctor and get an easy prescription for whiskey, or just sail 3 miles off the coast and it woouldn’t be illegal. This act was supposed to decrease crime and death in this country but it has done the total opposite. Arrests for drunkenness and disorderly conduct have increased by 41%, arrests of drunken drivers: increased 81%, thefts and burglaries: increased 9%, homicides, assault, and battery: increased 13%, number of federal convicts: increased 561%, federal prison population: increased 366%. The manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal; yet actually consuming it was not which totally contradicts the whole concept of it in the first place. Also, temperance activists hired a scholar to rewrite the Bible by removing all references
In the last decade illegal drug use in the United States has reached its highest level, according to the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Addicts include single parents, white collar workers and now adolescents starting at the age of 12. The new generations are gaining access to meth, ecstasy, marijuana, and even prescription drugs. “Prohibition creates violence because it drives the drug market underground…..[V]iolence results from policies that create black market, not from the characteristics of the good or activity in question”(Miron p. 1). Legalizing drugs in the U.S may stop the violence, drug trafficking and even give the government more control, but we will be putting today’s youth in a compromising position.