Gang Prevention Blue Print Released

[broNat]

The blueprint is available online by clicking this link http://www.grahamwone.com/docs/blueprint.pdf

[New2CH]

This is obviously a looooong report. I glanced at the executive summary recommendations and it seems like a lot of time spent on forming commissions and the like, and not a lot on immediate action.

If anyone has yet to, I recommend the article in this week's New Yorker on preventing gang violence. Profiles a really interesting program that has had some mixed results, but some stunning positive results, and which can be implemented quickly. The basic jist -- bring groups of gang members in for a program in which a combination of moral outreach (showing first-hand the victims of gang violence along with the gang members responsible explaining how this has haunted them), street-savvy community contacts for hopes in trying to get involvement with employment, etc., and law enforcement are present. The law enforcement threat is basically that if anyone in a gang unit commits a homicide, the entire gang will be held responsible, and the police using modeling software establish who the big dogs are in each gang unit, and if the peace is broken, they round them all up (they will pretty much always have, I imagine, outstanding warrants, probation violations, and the like that they can be hammered with). In the meantime, provide contacts with knowledge of the streets and links to job programs for folks to call who want out of the lifestyle. I recommend reading the whole article, but it is a really interesting approach that apparently has yielded some great results in a few cities around the country.