Los Angeles has become known as the gang capital of the United States, which has led to the search for successful anti-gang legislation to change this reputation. This quantitative dissertation study aimed to analyze the relationship between one such antigang measure, permanent gang injunctions, ...
The compelling state interest in limiting liberties is balanced against the right of an individual or a group to engage in certain activity. We have reached the point in this city at which a hard new look has to be given the rights of street-gang members whose activities seriously infringe o...
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the citybrought in“gang expert” William Bratton straight from LA. Similarly, the Gulf Kingdom ofBahrain hired John Yates, a British assistant police commissioner, and John Timoney, a former Miami police chief, to help shut down
Driving in Los Angeles is somewhat different than other parts of the country in that the freeways can be huge, speeds intensely fast, and 24/7 carpool lanes (HOV – High Occupancy Vehicles) are the norm. When traffic is light on the freeways, many of the freeways will move along at 80...
The Los Angeles Police Department’s Harbor Division says the corner of 252nd and Marigold, and the blocks that surround it, make up the busiest--and most dangerous--drug-dealing area in the Harbor Division, and one of the busiest in the entire city. Since the beginning of this year, 20...
The City of Los Angeles Mayor's Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Development (GRYD) program was conceived as a comprehensive response to gang violence. Unlike most comprehensive approaches, suppression was excluded from the primary model. Program services including community engagement, gang ...
Objective To assess the effect of civil gang injunctions on crime.doi:10.1007/s10940-018-9396-7Ridgeway, GregGrogger, JeffreyMoyer, Ruth A.MacDonald, John M.SpringerJournal of Quantitative CriminologyRidgeway G, MacDonald JM. 2017. Effect of rail transit on crime: a study of Los Angeles ...
The Impact of Civil Injunctions on Gang Activity in Los AngelesAgopian, Michael
Villaraigosa released his budget, which must be approved by the City Council, one day after announcing an initiative to reduce gang violence in some of Los Angeles’ most troubled neighborhoods. His spending plan would focus $168 million, including $15 million in new money, on more police and...