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  • October 2008

    • Ice Cube Video Honors Slain Teen

      Associated Press  |  Oct 4, 08 4:05 PM CDT

      Ice Cube Video Honors Slain Teen

      (AP) - The unlikely stars of Ice Cube's new video are the grieving relatives of a 17-year-old high school football star shot to death outside his home. The song "Why Me?" speaks out against senseless violence and gun crime devastating communities. "It just was a tragic, tragic story of why," Cube says. "Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere." More »

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      music  • rap music  • gang violence  • Ice Cube

  • September 2008

    • Riot Police Move In on Parisian Gang War

      Guardian (UK)  |  Sep 18, 08 8:52 AM CDT

      Riot Police Move In on Parisian Gang War

      (Newser) - French riot police have been deployed to contain a gang war in the northeast of Paris, as fighting between youths from two rival housing projects has left several bystanders dead, reports the Guardian . Unlike earlier violence in France, this battle is taking place not in suburban ghettos but in the capital, where locals complain that they're being pushed out by the forces of gentrification. More »

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      France  • shooting  • Paris  • gang violence  • housing projects

  • 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 »

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

  • June 2008

    • Why Is Memphis the New South Bronx?

      Atlantic Monthly  |  Jun 29, 08 4:00 PM CDT

      Why Is Memphis the New South Bronx?

      (Newser) - Despite a flattened national crime rate in large cities, Memphis was recently dubbed the nation's leader in violent crime, prompting Atlantic Monthly to ask: “Why has Elvis’s hometown turned into America’s new South Bronx?" Local experts offer an unsettling answer: demolition of low-income housing projects isn’t eradicating crime and poverty by giving residents a fresh start—it’s just decentralizing and relocating the problem.   More »

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      poverty  • gang violence  • Memphis  • urban poverty  • public housing

  • 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 »

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

  • February 2008

    • Cops Nab Gang Member in Bus Stop Shooting

      Los Angeles Times  |  Feb 28, 08 8:48 PM CST

      Cops Nab Gang Member in Bus Stop Shooting

      (Newser) - Los Angeles police today arrested a gang member who they say shot five children and three adults at a city bus stop yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reports. Police say the suspect, a member of the Crips, had been trying to make a name for himself as an enforcer in recent months. He apparently was trying to shoot one target, who kept dodging between pedestrians. More »

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      Los Angeles  • gang violence  • bystanders  • Crips

    • 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 »

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      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 »

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

  • January 2008

    • LA Gang Killings Down 27% Since '06

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jan 11, 08 7:18 PM CST

      LA Gang Killings Down 27% Since '06

      (Newser) - Los Angeles gang killings dropped 27% from the 2006 high of nearly 300, reports the Los Angeles Times . The city reported 216 gang-related killings in 2007, which still accounted for more than half of all homicides in Los Angeles. Authorities credited the reduction to a program that used police, federal agents, probation officers and prosecutors to target the 11 most dangerous gangs. Manpower was concentrated in eight "gang reduction zones." More »

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      murder  • violence  • gang violence  • killings

  • December 2007

    • 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 »

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      gangs  • gang violence  • tattoos  • El Salvador

  • September 2007

    • Ex-Gang Members Help LA Cut Homicides

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 28, 07 9:29 AM CDT

      Ex-Gang Members Help LA Cut Homicides

      (Newser) - The Los Angeles homicide rate has dropped this year to the lowest level since 1970, a turnaround police credit in part to a new program using ex-gang members to prevent gang killings. Nine months after the mayor vowed to crack down on gang violence, homicides are down by 50% in some neighborhoods, the Los Angeles Times reports. A civil right attorney calls it a "paradigm-changing breakthrough." More »

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      Los Angeles  • homicide  • gang violence

  • 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 »

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

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