Gang Intervention

Jan 10 2011

Ten grant recipients

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles today announced $200,000 in grants to 10 Los Angeles community-based organizations for programs focusing on gang intervention and prevention.

"The foundation is committed to supporting issues of vital importance to the community at large and chose to focus our General Community Grants this year on gang prevention and intervention,'' said President and Chief Executive Officer Marvin I. Schotland.

Sep 23 2010

Rash of shootings highlight difficulty of keeping community informed

If you live or work in or around the Western Avenue corridor that stretches from about 79th Street to Imperial Highway, it’s possible that you may have heard about a rash of shootings including the murder of 20-year-old Rozelle Lane at the liquor store on 92nd Street at Western.


You may have even heard on the street that the shootings are part of a rumored war between the various gangs that claim the area.

Sep 15 2010

Homeboy Industries to benefit

LOS ANGELES - The county will spend $1.3 million to help at-risk youths and young adults under a pilot program approved by the Board of Supervisors.

County officials will work with Homeboy Industries, a nonprofit, gang intervention program founded and run by Father Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit priest.

The effort will involve "tattoo removal, job development, and re-entry services (for) high-risk, high-need probationers and at-risk individuals between the ages of 14 (and) 30,'' said William Fujioka, the county's chief executive officer.

Feb 12 2009

Gun violence claiming the lives of young Black males

 Los Angeles, CA -- Maurio Proctor, 22, and two friends were standing on Proctor’s grandmother’s porch in the Jordan Downs housing projects in Watts when an unidentified car spotted the trio and made a sharp U-turn.

“They drove up to my son and his friends and fired 17 rounds,” said Reggie Sims, Proctor’s father, who said the shooting occurred on Jan. 28, 2008. “Three of (the) bullets hit my son. One struck him behind the right ear, one on the right arm and another on his shoulder and in his thigh. He died instantly.”

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.