Antigang

When gang warfare is fed and fueled by law enforcement, funds are generated for the so-called antigang units. ❋ Stanley Tookie Williams (2007)

For instance, principals in Glen Ridge are mandated to take an antigang seminar, including the two principals who lead kindergarten through second-grade schools. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was being watched by CRASH, an antigang and drug unit, and they made it a point to know everyone who was anyone in that neighborhood. ❋ TODD BRIDGES (2010)

Back in 1999 the LAPD antigang units argued, as they do today, that Alex Sanchez was a secret leader of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS-13) while posing as a peacemaker in the streets. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the arrest of Sanchez, carried out by antigang units of the FBI and LAPD at dawn on June 24 after a secret three-year investigation, reopens the question of whether reform has been successful. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The charges against Alex Sanchez, the 37-year-old executive director of the antigang organization Homies Unidos, include conspiracy to commit murder -- allegedly during his time with the group, which describes itself as a nonprofit that seeks to prevent gang violence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

LOS ANGELES -- A nationally known antigang activist was among four people arrested by an FBI-led task force and named in a federal racketeering indictment unsealed Wednesday. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He has acted as an antigang activist for at least a decade. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When two fellow faculty members asked him to support a controversial antigang measure, allowing the Chicago police to disperse and eventually arrest loiterers who had no clear reason to gather, Mr. Obama discussed the issue with unusual thoughtfulness, they say, but gave little sign of who should prevail — the American Civil Liberties Union, which opposed the measure, or the community groups that supported it out of concern about crime. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Last month, while talking to a group of young black men standing on a sidewalk in Salisbury, N.C., about harsh antigang law enforcement tactics some states are using, I had discovered the main challenge to such measures: the police have great difficulty determining who is, and who is not, a gangster. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I had gone to Salisbury to find someone who had firsthand experience with North Carolina's tough antigang stance, and I had found that someone: me. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 1992, he founded Homeboy Industries, his multifaceted antigang organization, to offer hope as an alternative to gang life. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He authored nine antigang books instructing youth how not to follow in his footsteps. ❋ Stanley Tookie Williams (2007)

Since then, I have written nine antigang and antiviolence books for children, created the Internet Project for Street Peace—an international peer mentoring program that links high-risk youth in other countries to their counterparts in the United States—and wrote a Local Street Peace Protocol that provides guidance on how to initiate a gang truce and is available to anyone who chooses to download it from my website at www.tookie.com. ❋ Stanley Tookie Williams (2007)