L.A.'s Homeboy Industries has been nationally recognized for its successful gang intervention programs. Now, a recent multimedia project by the Los A...
Tom Matlack | Posted 12.14.2009 | Impact
Father Greg explains that gang members can get their high school diploma, they can get counseling, they can get their tattoos removed. But ultimately the point is to find them work so they can become self-sufficient.
LA Daily News | Posted 12.06.2009 | Los Angeles
For a while now, the Barrio Van Nuys street gang has been claiming a version of the New York Yankees' interlocked NY logo as its own. By trimming t...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 12.04.2009 | Los Angeles
A group of civic activists, united by faith and a belief that the poor economy in the interior of Los Angeles is a social injustice, is preparing to o...
Brian Center | Posted 12.04.2009 | World
The root causes of violence in one part of the world are the same as those in other parts of the world. The elements of success in Los Angeles apply anywhere where isolated, dysfunctional people are creating violence and chaos.
nydailynews.com | By John Marzulli | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York
The MS-13 gang's plot to murder a federal agent in New York has triggered a fierce crackdown - a blitz of predawn raids that have netted nine arrests....
Brian Center | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact
I looked at the faces in the small room and heard the voices and realized that this is war. This is why people kill each other. It was fear.
Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.19.2009 | Denver
Once destitute, dilapidated and shunned, speculators and trendsetters now serenade the Five Points or LoHi neighborhoods, singing their praises to the tune of million dollar residences.
Paul David Walker | Posted 12.02.2009 | Home
If people sometimes need a little nudge for the greatest things to happen to them, can this power be found in youth who have grown up in the difficult circumstances of inner cities?
Matt Farmer | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago
Aggravated assault, gang activity, arson and gun possession. Why won't CPS release data on the number of such dangerous offenses at my children's schools?
Colleen Turner | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
This year's celebration of International Peace Day on September 21st finds me focusing on communications between real or potential enemies in ways that foster amity, not enmity.
Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
In December 2008, just months before Manuel Zelaya was ousted from power by the Honduran military, he wrote Barack Obama and complained of U.S. "interventionism."
AP | MARCOS ALEMAN | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A French filmmaker who spent years documenting the brutality and desperation of a Salvadoran street gang has been fo...
Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living
Parents, always make sure your children wear their seat belts! Families, take accountability.
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.18.2009 | World
Almost 500 Chinese suspects are on the run following a major crackdown on gang crime in western China, the People's Daily reports. About 3,000 police...
Fr. Gregory Boyle | Posted 09.08.2009 | Living
Homeboy Industries is now the largest gang intervention program in the US. Serving 12 thousand clients a year, 8 thousand gang members from 700 different gangs, we offer comprehensive services to those for whom hope is foreign.
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
The White House denounced the action in Honduras as "illegal." But that call requires Washington to cut off all but humanitarian aid and could jeopardize the big Soto Cano base outside Tegucigalpa.
Pat Hardy | Posted 08.17.2009 | Living
While the legislature slashes and burns program after program, our monthly workshops in 17 California prisons, are still on offer, deeply affecting the lives of prisoners and their families.
Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Last summer, our City came forward with a simple -- yet radical -- idea. For two months, we dared to challenge the conventional wisdom that gun violence and gang battles plague the summer months.
WorldFocus | Posted 08.13.2009 | World
In Malaysia, some immigration officials have been accused of involvement in selling refugees from Myanmar, also known as Burma, to gangs in Thailan...
Kamala Lopez | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics
What is it about Rocio Martinez that makes kids on the edge of the abyss trust her? Well, for one thing, they know that Rosi, as they call her, can relate -- she used to be one of them.
Christian Science Monitor | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
On Monday, the French legislature passed a radical new law making it illegal to be part of a "gang" - if it's one that has been or may be violent....
Josh Sugarmann | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Guns are now the only consumer product manufactured in America not regulated by a federal agency for health and safety.
Vickie Karp | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Leslie Crocker Snyder is running to be the first woman to be Manhattan District Attorney. Snyder has prosecuted mafia members and drug lords and gang members. She created the first sex crimes unit in the United States, writing the Rape/Shield law that, to this day, saves rape victims from malicious and overly-broad cross-examination.
Sen. Jim Webb | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
One in every 31 adults in the United States is in prison, in jail, or on supervised release. Numbers only tell part of the story.
Posted 12.17.2009 | Impact