Gangs and our Society

On any given day, you can pick up a newspaper or turn on a television and find something about gang violence. A Los Angeles deaf girl was shot to death while signing to a friend. Police say that she was shot because a gang member thought she was giving gang signs. In Illinois a 20-year-old man was shot while getting his baby daughter out of his car. A teenager was reported by police to have approached the man in his driveway and opened fire. After arresting the suspect, he told police it was part of his initiation to shot someone he did not know. A Washington D.C. family takes a wrong turn into gang territory and is fired upon. A 3-year-old is killed and her 2-year-old brother wounded. Two FBI agents and a police sergeant are murdered inside the Washington, D.C. police headquarters by a gang member. A Pittsburgh police sergeant walking home with his daughter is killed with his own gun after he stops, and confronts a gang spraying graffiti on a street.…