Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question preoccupies assistant police chief Larry Roberts, who has been on the Omaha force for 20 years. He says the big surge in youth violence started in 1986, when gang members from Los Angeles moved eastward to colonize smaller cities. Now teenagers throughout the area try to match the firepower of the gang members. "If one kid brings a little .22-cal. pistol and the other has a .357 Magnum, then guess who has status," Roberts says. The gunplay spread quickly beyond the gangs. "For some reason this particular generation of kids has absolutely no value for human life...
...affirmation of his own violent impulses in such movies as South-Central and Boyz 'N the Hood. He misses their point, embracing the life- style they portray rather than heeding any cautionary tale they offer. His favorite book is Do or Die, an account of the lives of gang members in Los Angeles. "If there were more books like that, I'd read a lot more," he says, without a hint of sarcasm...
...Black Bible Chronicles (African American Family Press; $14.95) remains the most striking and the most controversial of the lot. The God here is one mean dude, sounding at times more like a gang leader than the Lord. Warning Noah of the Flood, he says, "I'm fed up with what's happenin' 'round here. These folks ain't what's happenin' anymore, so I'm gonna do what I gotta do, and end things once and for all. Man, I'm gonna blow the brothers clear outta the water...
...notorious for their use of the rope and the gun, comes close." An FBI source has told TIME that one of the juvenile members of the Fourth Reich Skinheads arrested last week is being charged with a pipe-bomb attack against a member of the "Spur Posse," the gang of teenage boys in Lakewood, California, that won notoriety earlier this year for awarding points among themselves for sexual conquests. According to an affidavit, the Spur Posse member was targeted partly because he was half Asian and half Mexican...
...staved in a motel in Westtield where overcome was either in a motorcycle gang, or they were homeless families who the state is paying to stay there," Bamberger says. "We spent a lot of time talk my to those people...