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Empowering Oakland Youth: Strategies to Prevent Gang Violence

City Council introduces a plan to address gang violence in Oakland, CA. Youth join gangs due to lack of funding, opportunity, and social structure. Despite spending more on police tools, the city fails to invest in essential community elements. Gang injunctions prove effective in reclaiming neighborhoods. Scraper Bikes project and Gun Tracing Project by Youth Alive aim to combat gang violence. This initiative aims to create safer communities by empowering young individuals.

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Empowering Oakland Youth: Strategies to Prevent Gang Violence

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  1. Preventing Gang Violence in Oakland, Ca Francisco R. Bautista CHHS-302 City Council

  2. Intro • youth join gangs because The lack of funding, opportunity, and social structure.

  3. The problem • the City unquestioningly spends more money on police tools and prison/jail-oriented solutions, they continue to fail to invest in the most fundamental elements that make safe communities

  4. Gang Injunctions • like this, we had a gang … that basically took over that community. Good people couldn’t walk down the street, they couldn’t drive down the street, and within the first year of the injunction you had kids back out playing in the streets (Stuart, 2010).”

  5. Effects .

  6. Scraper Bikes

  7. Reference • Oakland Police Department “Gun tracing project” Youth Alive (2000) • Stuart, T. (2010, May 26). [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://www.eastbayexpress.com/92510/archives/2010/05/26/a-guide-to-the-north-oakland-gang-injunction

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