Sentences with phrase «street gang violence»

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Drug deals on US streets, and the violence done to enforce them, are the prerogative of US gangs, not the cartels.

But the links between groups like the Flores brothers and street - level gangs responsible for much of the drug sales and violence in Chicago are a «gray area» of the drug trade, both law enforcement and gang members have said.

Nor did the twins personally deal with street - level dealers — a popular misconception reinforced by police and drug enforcement officials, who often link the cartels to the city's gangs and the deadly violence they perpetrate.

In 1986, with the rise of gang and drug violence on city streets, we had The Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act, which outlawed armor - piercing bullets.

The culture of death we see clearly in the gang violence on our streets and in the perpetual war that has ravaged homes in Iraq is just as real, though often harder to see, in the self - centeredness of our shopping malls and the loneliness of our workspaces.

And as for «an innocent neighborhood getting any of a number of deadly and painful health problems», what do you call gangs, drugs, and street level violence?

If street gangs begin acquiring large numbers of such weapons the probability of major violence approaches the unthinkable.

The fans that don't like him now are the ones that complain about the violence of football, or are invested in Dupree and / or Tomlin, or percieve the Steelers as a sort of street gang / mafia as in for life or blood out when the reality is it's just another large corporation that you and I happen to love.

On Thursday, June 15, 2017, officials announced that 41 alleged members of the MS - 13 street gang were indicted for a four - year spree of violence.

It's become second nature to the mayor: at an earlier event unveiling a police body camera program, he teed off on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who is appearing on Long Island Friday to address violence carried out by a Central American street gang.

They discuss gang violence, cracking down on drug distribution, wrongful convictions, Indian Point, and Wall Street.

Hundreds of anti-knife campaigners will march on Downing Street today calling for the government to do more in tackling gang violence.

The Correction Officers Benevolent Association last month filed a federal suit of its own, alleging inmate violence is up 18 percent since de Blasio's decree and street gang members in custody are organizing against guards, who have been «punched, kicked, slashed, splashed with urine, feces or saliva, stabbed, held hostage, beaten severely or sexually assaulted by inmates.»

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone speaks alongside N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo about the steps they're taking to respond to the violence being perpetrated by the street gang Mara Salvatrucha, commonly referred to as MS - 13.

Curtis Sliwa, founder and CEO of the Guardian Angels, called on community residents, Guardian Angels members and youth programs to work together to fight the MS - 13 street gang's violence in areas such as Brentwood, Central Islip and North Bay Shore.

Lawmakers seek to legally define criminal street gangs and create a fund to support violence prevention

But the new sequel aims to combine both worlds (kinda), and has them teaming up to fight the increasing presence of gang violence on the streets of Chicago and around the barbershop itself.

It does have the richness in setting, style and characters that Goodfellas has, but in mindset it seems much closer to Menace to me, in that it's more about escaping the senseless, chaotic violence of street gang life than it is a psuedo - glorification of the Mafia lifestyle.

Netflix has released a new trailer for its fantasy action - thriller Bright, which sees director David Ayer (End of Watch, Suicide Squad) directing Will Smith and Joel Edgerton as two LAPD police officers — one human and one orc — who form a most unlikely duo working to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe from a sinister underworld filled with gang violence and dark forces at work.

Bright follows the story of two LAPD police officers played by Will Smith (Officer Ward) and Joel Edgerton (Officer Jakoby) who form a most unlikely duo working to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe from a sinister underworld filled with gang violence and dark forces at work.

Harry Brown (R for sexuality, drug use, pervasive profanity and graphic violence) Revenge flick about a recently - widowed, law - abiding senior citizen (Michael Caine) who morphs into a crime - fighting vigilante after the street gang that murdered his best friend (David Bradley) gets off with a slap on the wrist.

Barbershop: The Next Cut Rated PG - 13 for sexual material and language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90 % Available on DVD and Blu - ray Taking a decade off from the franchise, Ice Cube and gang are back to cutting hair in his father's barbershop, and as violence gets worse on the streets of Chicago, he is considering selling the shop to move to a ritzier, and thus safer, location.

Furious 7 Rated PG - 13 for prolonged frenetic sequences of violence, action and mayhem, suggestive content and brief strong language Available on Blu - ray and DVD In this seventh installment of the street racing franchise, the entire gang is back and under threat from Jason Statham who is determined to get revenge for the death of his brother who apparently died in a previous installment (I've seen them all but I honestly can't remember a single plot line).

In Bright, the unlikely duo are working around the clock to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe from a sinister underworld filled with gang violence and dark forces at work.

A Better Life (PG - 13 for profanity, violence and drug use) American Dream drama, set in East L.A., about an undocumented immigrant's (Demian Bichir) attempt to protect his teenage son (Jose Julian) from both street gangs and deportation back to Mexico.

The report, «Youth Violence: Gangs on Main Street, U.S.A.» studies the increase in gang activity in cities with populations of 50,000 to 150,000, and describes the responses of four cities: Las Cruces, N.M.; Peoria, Ill.; Topeka, Kan.; and Yakima, Wash..

Milanoir is a twin stick shooter inspired by the Italian cinema of the seventies, films starring street gangs (nothing to do with the Sicilian Mafia) in which the violence that was lived in some cities of the country was represented.

It is home to awful gang violence that led the Wall Street Journal in 2014 to suggest that avocados from the region are tainted, «blood avocados — the Mexican equivalent of the conflict diamonds that are sold from war - torn parts of Africa.»

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