CITY'S GANG PROGRAMS COME UNDER FIRE.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer Two weeks after a gang shooting off campus killed one of their classmates Classmates can refer to either:
Gang-intervention workers also called on city officials to include gang leaders in efforts to find solutions to the problem during the hearing, which was held by the City Council's Committee on Gangs and Juvenile Justice. "We are missing the boat by not involving (gang leaders)," said Leon Owens, one gang-intervention activist, who asked panel members to meet with gang leaders next month. Leon Gullette, who described himself as an ex-gang member, said many city programs aren't effective, because they aren't relevant to the people they're supposed to serve. Current gang prevention and intervention A procedure used in a lawsuit by which the court allows a third person who was not originally a party to the suit to become a party, by joining with either the plaintiff or the defendant. programs also were criticized as ineffective by Malcolm Klein Klein , Melanie 1882-1960. Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who first introduced play therapy and was the first to use psychoanalysis to treat young children. , a sociology professor at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . "Los Angeles city and county is the worst gang location in the nation - is the worst gang location in the world, and has been for at least two decades," Klein told the committee. "Therefore, I bridle when I hear public officials claim success for programs of gang prevention." |
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