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A 15 page paper that includes statistical data. Organized gangs are not new, they have existed for centuries but it was in the 20th centuries that the so-called supergang first appeared in Los Angeles. Gangs now can be found even in small rural areas. This paper provides an introduction to gangs and some of the multiagency groups that have been established to suppress, monitor and prosecute gang members. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Kings (Cohn, 2006). Neighborhood youth gangs were certainly recognized in the late 1800s and an increase in adult gangs was recognized in that period of time called the Roaring 20s
(Cohn, 2006). These adult gangs were organized during the Prohibition Era (Cohn, 2006). In the 1960s, Puerto Rican, African-American and Mexican-American gangs soared in numbers of gangs and in membership
(Cohn, 2006). As the membership increased, so did the level of violence (Cohn, 2006). The major gangs, often referred to as supergangs, began in California; these include "the Crips, Bloods,
Hells Angels, Mexican Mafia, Nuestra Familia, Mara Salvatrucha, 18th Street, Sur Trece, the Aryan Brotherhood, and others (Rodriguez, 2005, p. 12). This should not be surprising because as this author
points out, California has the most in any number of areas: the most industrialized, the most populated, the most foreign immigrants, the most homeless, for example (Rodriguez, 2005). California also
has a strategies and layered economic structure (Rodriguez, 2005). There are the dirt poor migrant workers and the most advanced technology companies (Rodriguez, 2005). There is enormous animosity between citizens
and illegal immigrants (Rodriguez, 2005). It is the birthplace of the Black Panthers, the Black Berets, the Brown Berets, the American Indian Movement and the Soledad Brothers (Rodriguez, 2005). All
of these facets of the state have emerged over hundreds of years of history (Rodriguez, 2005). These events have all contributed to the creation and proliferation of gangs (Rodriguez, 2005).
And, in the 1980s and 1990s, it was the gang capital of the world (Rodriguez, 2005). Each year, the Department of Justice published a document entitled National Gang Threat Assessment
(Grabianowski, 2006). The 2005 Assessment found there are at least 21,500 different gangs in the United States with an aggregate active membership that exceeds 731,000 (Grabianowski, 2006). Law enforcement agencies
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