What are some community anti-gang strategies?
• Establish a gang intelligence unit in the community police agency-a clearing house for tracking and monitoring gangs • Build methods of disseminating advice/information on dealing with gangs to children and parents • Enact ordinances, both school board, city, and state, that make it a felony for gangs to recruit in school or intimidate youngsters to join a gang • Support initiatives that provide for a rich assortment of extracurricular programs for kids and the incentives for them to participate in them • Organize/support workshops on street gangs to be taught to parents, grandparents, and guardians of school-age children • Provide public seminars on “street gangs” throughout the year • Run media series on street gangs, stripping them of their mystique and exposing them for what they are • Encourage service clubs and church groups to sponsor a battery of community speak-outs during the year on street gangs, with the help of the police departments, courts, youth services agencies, cor
