Gang Statistics

1) As of 2009, approximately how many active gang members are there in the US?
 One Million gang members in 2009

2) What percentage of gang members are under the age of 18?
Consider - why do you think this number is so high?

40% are juveniles (under 18),because the place where they live and their influences.

3) Out of the boys who have been in juvenille hall, what is the ratio of them that have some type of gang affiliation?
- 400,000 teenage gang

4) When female gang members are arrested, what are their crimes usually for?
- Their incarcerations tend to be for drug use, larceny, petty theft, status offenses or domestic issues fights with parents and runaway
5) What percentage of female gang members have been sexually abused?
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65%

It’s a dead end in MS-13

 Beginning of article

* One way ride
-joker wanted lucky to go with him to make some trouble. and lucky didnt want to do the drive by and he got killed by his own gang.

* Life is cheap
-most  MS 13 members have jobs and at night they culd do whatever they want. most people look at gang mebers and think they dont really have a job because they are a full time gangster but their wrong.

* A deadly dis
-life is a gamble being in ms 13. you will never kno when u are going to die or if ur own gang will pull a hit on u.

* No way out
-once your are in ms 13 u cant get out . u have to dedicate your hole life in the gang.

The International Reach of the Mara Salvatrucha, by Mandalit del Barco

1) What is "Mano Dura?"
-its a law in el salvador.

2) How are the police in El Salvador trying to prevent gang activity?
-they are going into battles with all the gangs. mostly ms-13

3) What does it say is the reason that MS13 started in Los Angeles?
-thats were most of the mexicans were in L.A.

4) Consider 2 and 3. How do these things seem to fuel each other or make the situation worse?
-if there are in diffrent countrys. they can make their gang bigger and more viloince would happen


their are starting to become more and more gang mebers of ms 13 because their in diffrent countries. their is more viloince is el salvador and the police cant controll them.But more Central Americans say they've been terrorized by the gangs

Burgeoning gangs behind up to 80% of crime

1. How many gang members are there in the US?
-100,000

2. In how many states is MS13 active?
-33 states.

3. Summarize gang activity in Omaha, Nashville, and Maryland.
-omaha-24 MS13 gang members got cought up with meth in the biggest bust since 2004.

-nashville-14 MS 13 members got convicted pledied guilty on chargers for murder.

-maryland-42 MS13 gangmembers got locked up since 2005

Mara Salvatrucha Background Information

1. In 1-2 sentences, describe the origins/history of Mara Salvatrucha.
ms 13 originated in Los Angeles and has spread to other parts of the United States.The majority of the gang is ethnically composed of Central Americans and active in urban and suburban areas

2. How has deportation of illegal immigrants contributed to the growing numbers of Mara Salvatrucha?
when the members from MS get deported they start recruting people from mexico wich makes the gang bigger.

3. Discuss TWO of the publicized crimes. What happened? What was the effect?
July 13, 2003- 17-year-old lady former MS member turned informant was found stabbed on the banks of the Shenandoah River in Virginia

December 23, 2004-when an intercity bus was intercepted and sprayed with automatic gunfire, killing 28 civilian passengers, most of whom were women and children

Mid-Quarter Grade Review

*** Check your grades on Edmodo for film class (NOT ALL YOUR CLASSES!)
-ok

*** What is your percentage?

35/75
*** How many assignments are you missing?
9

Why I recycle!

1. How much trash does one American produce each year?
-195 million tons

2. There are many reasons to reduce, reuse, and recycle. These reasons are:
**Saving Space
**Saving Natural Resources
**Saving Energy
**Reducing Pollution
Explain how the three R's help with each of these reasons in at least one sentence.
3. What does it mean to reduce? Explain in at least one sentence.

-to cut down on the garbage or waste that we produce in the first place
4. What does it mean to reuse? Explain in at least one sentence.

-to find ways that either you or someone else can use your unwanted items over again.
5. What does it mean to recycle? Explain in at least one sentence.

-when you put discarded items through a process so they can be used again.
6. List one fact about each of the following:
**Garbage
-In 1997, they produced 220 million tons of waste.
**Paper
-they get rid of what would equal 500,000 trees every single week.
**Landfils-the amount of landfills in the U.S. is dropping
**Recycling
-People have been using and recycling glass for almost 3,000 years
**Energy
-Recycling can save energy.

Landfills

1. How much waste does one person make a day?
-4.6 pounds  a person.

2. Of all waste created, what percentage is recycled or used as compost?
-32.5 puonds is of recycled or composed.

3. In the US, how much trash is thrown into landfills?
-55% is thrown in land fills

4. What is the difference between a dump and a landfill?
-dump is  a whole in the ground with trash.
-a land fill is carefully created above ground.

5. Why is the flow of water near a landfill important?
-so it dosent get caught in fire,so exess water isent wanted so that potential leakege from the land fill will not enter the ground water.

6. When a landfill is built, why does there have to be so much extra land surrounding the actual landfill? What is this for?
-for sanetery reasons ,so it dosent hurt the enviorment.

7. Consider - considering how much trash Americans produce each year, what do you think are some potential problems that we may encounter?
-over population in trash.