Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search

October 8, 2008 2:23:05 AM CDT

Learn about Newser Points »

Stories related to: gangs

Stories

13 Stories

  • August 2008

    • ACLU Blasts Town's 9pm Teen Curfew

      Associated Press  |  Aug 14, 08 5:30 AM CDT

      ACLU Blasts Town's 9pm Teen Curfew

      (Newser) - Connecticut ACLU officials are blasting a blanket 9pm teen curfew in Hartford and are considering challenging the crackdown in court, AP reports. The month-long curfew is due to begin tonight. The city announced the curfew after weekend shootings left one dead and 10 wounded. ACLU lawyers say the move violates minors' civil rights and punishes an entire demographic for the acts of a few people. More »

      Tags

      ACLU  • Connecticut  • gangs  • gang violence  • American Civil Liberties Union  • curfew  • Hartford

  • July 2008

    • NFL Looks for Gang Signs on Game Tapes

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 16, 08 2:51 PM CDT

      NFL Looks for Gang Signs on Game Tapes

      (Newser) - The NFL is hiring experts to pore over game tapes looking for players flashing gang signs, the Los Angeles Times reports. “There have been some suspected things we've seen,” said a league security official; one former player's not so sure: "People have got signs for their kids, signs for their fraternities. How do you differentiate who's really throwing up gang signs?" More »

      Tags

      NFL  • football  • Paul Pierce  • Roger Goodell  • gangs

  • March 2008

    • LA Mourns Slain High School Football Star

      Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 12, 08 3:10 AM CDT

      LA Mourns Slain High School Football Star

      (Newser) - Mourners packed the funeral of a Los Angeles high school football star yesterday as police charged a gang member with capital murder in his death, the LA Times reports. The shooting of 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw only three doors away from his home was the latest in a spate of killings that has shocked even Angelenos numbed by gang violence. Shaw's alleged killer,19, is a member of the Hispanic 18th Street Gang released from jail a day before the killing. More »

      Tags

      Los Angeles  • shooting  • LAPD  • gangs  • gang violence  • Antonio Villaraigosa

    • Gang Memoir Exposed as Fiction

      New York Times  |  Mar 4, 08 7:50 AM CST

      Gang Memoir Exposed as Fiction

      (Newser) - Margaret Jones' acclaimed memoir of a half-Native American girl growing up in a foster home in South Central LA and running with gangs, Love and Consequences, turns out to be fiction, the New York Times reports. Jones, whose real name is Seltzer, grew up with her birth parents in an affluent LA neighborhood; she was busted when her sister spotted her photo in a Times feature about the book and called her publisher. More »

      Tags

      Los Angeles  • book  • publishing  • memoir  • author  • gangs  • fiction  • Penguin Group  • Margaret Seltzer  • South Central LA  • fabrication

  • February 2008

    • Girl Gangs Clash in Paris

      Times (UK)  |  Feb 23, 08 2:20 PM CST

      Girl Gangs Clash in Paris

      (Newser) - Paris cops recently broke up a suburban street-fight between rival gangs—but this time the gangsters were girls, the Times of London reports. "They had knives, screwdrivers, sticks and teargas and they were really going for each other," one officer said. Girl violence has spiked 140% in France since 2002, but police were surprised by the sight of an armed girl-gang battle. More »

      Tags

      France  • teenagers  • Paris  • youth  • gangs  • gang violence

    • Gang Gun Battle Shuts Down LA Neighborhood

      Los Angeles Times  |  Feb 22, 08 7:02 AM CST

      Gang Gun Battle Shuts Down LA Neighborhood

      (Newser) - Dozens of streets in Los Angeles were shut down yesterday following a police gun battle with gang members, the Los Angeles Times reports. Schools were locked down and residents ordered to stay in their homes as police searched for suspects in a drive-by shooting that left a man dead from a dozen bullets. When police pulled over suspected gang members, they jumped out of their car, fired on officers, and fled on foot. More »

      Tags

      Los Angeles  • shooting  • LAPD  • gangs  • gang violence  • Swat

  • January 2008

    • Ethnic Gangs Rile Kenyan Slums

      Newsweek  |  Jan 10, 08 1:37 PM CST

      Ethnic Gangs Rile Kenyan Slums

      (Newser) - The ethnic violence that has ripped through Kenya since December's disputed election is particularly gruesome between gangs in the slums of Nairobi, Newsweek reports. On one side is the self-proclaimed “Taliban,” a group dedicated to protecting their Luo tribe, and imposing order and justice much like their Afghan namesake. Their enemies are the Mungiki, a Kikuyu gang rumored to drink blood during ritualized killings. More »

      Tags

      Kenya  • gangs  • Kikuyu  • ethnic conflict  • Luo

  • December 2007

    • LA Murder Rate Plummets

      Los Angeles Times  |  Dec 24, 07 6:44 AM CST

      LA Murder Rate Plummets

      (Newser) - The murder rate in Los Angeles has sunk to its lowest in nearly 40 years, the Los Angeles Times reports. There have been 368 killings in the City of Angels this year, down from over 1,000 in 1992. The last time the murder rate was so low was 1970, when LA had 1 million fewer people, guns were less prevalent on the streets, and gangs were a smaller presence. More »

      Tags

      California  • murder  • Los Angeles  • homicide  • gangs  • crime statistics

    • Gangs Trade Tattoos for Suits

      Associated Press  |  Dec 16, 07 6:00 PM CST

      Gangs Trade Tattoos for Suits

      (Newser) - After years of punks with brazen head-to-toe tattoos and baggy jeans, organized crime has a new face: the clean-cut, yuppified mug of a college grad, AP reports. In an effort to keep cops off their tails and increase the bottom line, Latin American gangs are opting for brains over brawn—especially as they contend with widespread crackdowns in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. More »

      Tags

      gangs  • gang violence  • tattoos  • El Salvador

  • November 2007

    • 8,000 Kenyans Killed by Cops, Lawyers Say

      Associated Press  |  Nov 25, 07 8:30 PM CST

      8,000 Kenyans Killed by Cops, Lawyers Say

      (Newser) - Kenyan cops have killed or fatally tortured more than 8,000 youth since 2002, human rights lawyers charged today. The deaths, along with 4,000 cases of missing men, are allegedly part of a state crackdown on the Mungiki—an outlawed sect the government blames for gang violence. Police have dismissed the report as “fictitious” and “a document not worth responding to.” More »

      Tags

      Africa  • Kenya  • human rights  • Mwai Kibaki  • gangs  • Kikuyu  • Nairobi  • tribes  • Mungiki

  • August 2007
  • July 2007

    • Frustrated Cities Take Gangs to Court

      Associated Press  |  Jul 30, 07 1:00 PM CDT

      Frustrated Cities Take Gangs to Court

      (Newser) - San Francisco, Fort Worth, and other cities are suing gangs in an effort to curb violence, winning injunctions forbidding members to ride in cars together and even talk to each other on the street. Courts have struck down citywide measures after critics argued they unfairly target minorities, but injunctions against specific gangs or members have held up, the AP reports. More »

      Tags

      lawsuit  • crime  • Los Angeles  • San Francisco  • violence  • gangs  • gang violence  • Fort Worth

  • May 2007

    • Gang Members Join New Brotherhood: Unions

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 21, 07 7:53 AM CDT

      Gang Members Join New Brotherhood: Unions

      (Newser) - As construction booms, LA's building-trade unions are stepping up recruitment in the inner city, where many new hires are former gang members. The LA Times explores a trend that's turning traditionally white, fraternal outfits like the pipefitters, sheet-metal workers and even Teamsters into majority minority—and, in some cases, majority gang—shops. More »

      Tags

      Los Angeles  • construction  • unions  • gangs  • Crips

13 Stories

Today's Most Popular

Loading...

Premium Articles from HighBeam

Find more articles like this

What is Newser?

2008 Codie Finalist

Newser gives you more news in less time. We search for the best and most important stories all over the web, read them for you, and deliver concise and sharp summaries—along with links to the full text. Newser provides a way to stay on top of an ever-expanding horizon of news and opinion—politics, sports, business, trends, technology, personalities, crimes, and controversies. Newser keeps you not just better informed, but, with our signature graphic interface and smart condensed format, more enjoyably informed.

Learn more »