If you are considering joining a gang, please take the time to consider the danger you are placing on your friends and family. Yes, some times people do join gangs because they lack anyone close to them, but circumstances do change and you will likely find yourself with close friends and loved ones sooner than you think.
Often, someone, especially youth, joins a gang to fulfill a sense of belonging. This is perfectly normal and an instinctual human trait. There are many other ways to receive this sense of belonging. Jobs, sports teams, art clubs, etc. A quick Google search for a group of people doing an activity you are interested in will reveal numerous results, trust me. Gang violence is the reason much violent crime happens.
There are consequences to every poor decision people make and unfortunately death can be one of them. They should work hard to get what they want like other people that are working hard to get the things that you are robbing them for. Males, especially African Americans, are often the ones committing crimes and involved in gang violence because some of them made poor decisions earlier in their lives.
This statistic remains steady over the years even if it rises or decreases a little. More than 24, gangs are active in the United States. In the past, a female's role in a male gang was primarily as a: Girlfriend Drug-trafficker Go-between.
What: many male gangs allow females to join their ranks, but others are exclusively female. These all-female gangs formed in reaction to the sexism and gender inequality found in male-dominated gangs.
Frustrated by the absence of equal rights and dissatisfied with risking their lives without voice or influence, girls form their own groups.
How: initiation into a gang: some initiations rites are the same as for male gangs, such as shoplifting, robbery, or beatings. Other requirements may involve sexual acts. Quitting the gang: similar to the rules of a male gang, a ritual must be endured to leave.
Why: while males join gangs for the excitement and acceptance of the gang, girls are induced by gang membership as a way to:. Cure loneliness and secure warmth and affection. Satisfy the need to belong to a group, fulfilled in part by the dress codes and traditions imposed by gang membership as a sign of solidarity. To express anger and frustration encountered daily in a life fuelled with poverty and joblessness and devoid of hope.
Excitement and thrill. Looking for a surrogate family. Young people join gangs to receive the attention, affirmation, and protection they may feel they are lacking at home. Breakdown of traditional family units. Many youngsters do not have a positive adult role model. Many see domestic violence and alcohol and other drug use in the home. Lack of parental involvement and the absence of rules and family rituals allow older gang members to be viewed as authority figures by young teens and children.
The tattoo removal center is called Ya' Stuvo, Spanish slang for "that's enough, I'm done with that. Some gang members have black teardrops, often several of them, tattooed just below the eye. Each one can stand for a stint in prison or a person killed.
Gabriel Hinojos says he got his teardrop from doing time at Folsom State Prison. He grimaced in pain as the surgeon extracted the ink from the soft skin under his eye.
Asked what it felt like, Gabriel answered: "You know when you're cooking and the oil hits you? It feels like that, over and over. He is still covered in black ink.
There is the name of his gang, Florencia 13 or F13 one of the largest in Los Angeles , written across his neck in huge block letters and a large black spider "Spider" is his street name inked onto the side of his head.
Some tattoos have faded into a faint collection of light gray lines, but they haven't gone away entirely. Getting out of a street gang in L. In street lore, a gang banger can never leave a really brutal gang like Mara Salvatrucha In practice, a gang member like Gabriel can get out of a tough, but not suicidally murderous, gang like F13 if he has served time in prison and "done the work"—shown that he can "sling" drugs and wield a gun.
Handsome, charismatic—the nurses at Ya' Stuvo could not help flirting with him—Gabriel became a kind of poster child for leaving behind the gang life. He celebrated his achievement by sipping white wine with former first lady Laura Bush at the White House. A few months later, he was back in jail. Gabriel joined F13 when he was 14 years old.
He had a tough home life, he says, so he moved out and crashed with a gang member named Diablo since killed. When Gabriel was 16, a girl who was riding on the handlebars of his bike was shot and killed by rival gang members who were aiming for him.
He learned to sling sell drugs, steal cars and use a gun—"I used to love holding it," he recalls. When he was 21, he was sent away to prison for spraying the house of another gang member with bullets. He was released after only two years, but got two strikes for the incident; one more serious felony conviction and he would be sent to prison for life.
Covered with tattoos when he emerged, he was unemployable. Fearful of winding up back in prison permanently if he rejoined his gang, he wandered into Homeboy Industries, an organization in downtown L. A natural leader, Gabriel got a job there. He became a better husband, had another child and moved away from the old neighborhood, Florence.
But he wasn't free.
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