Word: antigang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...According to the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver, 42 states have enacted laws making parents responsible in one form or another for their children's crimes. Of those states, 17 make parents criminally liable, sometimes with the threat of hefty fines and jail time. California's 1988 antigang law is one of the toughest. The state's Parental Responsibility Act makes parents liable for inadequate supervision, with penalties of up to a year in jail and $2,500 fines. Arkansas adopted a parental-responsibility law in 1995, under which courts can order parents or guardians to attend...
...gang members and other "slimes and assholes," Fuhrman made an aside about "Mexicans and niggers" he encountered during military service. Though Fuhrman now denies making the racial slurs during the psychiatric sessions, he was clearly a man in distress. He acknowledged to the doctors that his work in an antigang detail in East Los Angeles and foot patrols in the downtown area between 1977 and 1981, years in which his second marriage was collapsing, made him feel increasingly violent and out of control. He was in fact sued during this time for beating a suspect, although the case never went...
...They cut the coke and ratcheted up the price as they resold supplies in outlying markets. Then with expansion came branches and outposts beyond the bounds of Los Angeles, as well as franchise-like agreements with local, allegedly gang-connected distributors. Says Sergeant Steve Spanard of the Denver Police antigang unit: ``We never had Eight Treys in Denver before Q showed...
Thermil Salem is a soldier who worked as a driver for a group of antigang policemen who are feared for their brutality. Secretly, Salem supported President Aristide. "My teeth cannot speak about those days," he says. He served two jail terms. Living outside Port-au-Prince in a brick hut that also serves as a voodoo temple, he never goes out now. "They have spies all around," he says...
Perez counsels teenagers to go public with their desire to quit a gang only as a last resort. "It beats getting killed or blowing somebody's brains out," he explains. Most antigang workers are adamantly against such advice under any conditions. "That would be like telling the kid to go kill himself," says Swope. Then there are folks like Marianne Diaz-Parton, a gang- intervention worker for the Community Youth Gang Services Project in Los Angeles, who actually condone the beatings...