Welcome to the International Latino Gang Investigator's Association! We hope you enjoy our new and improved website. This is an active discussion list to share the latest trends, crimes, and movements of Latino gangs across North, Central and South America, especially in the United States. Our goal is to decrease the violence that impacts our communities, particularly those in the Latino community who are trying to build a better life for themselves.
Mountain View was the only city in Santa Clara County to receive a grant from the California Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention Program, or CalGRIP, program. Such grants are to be used statewide for gang intervention, suppression and prevention. Mountain View's $162,000 share of the state grant will pay for two part-time counselors over three years.
For three years, they have been quietly steering teens away from gangs and offering a helping hand to kids abusing drugs or considering suicide. Now a partnership between the Pomona Unified School District and Tri-City Mental Health Center is approaching its fourth year, and experts say it's making a difference.
L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa wants to use gun restrictions, databases to take on gangs
The mayor proposed giving landlords the power to evict tenants convicted of using and possessing illegal weapons and ammunition. And he promised to push other new laws to regulate the purchase of ammunition and storage of weapons. The proposed ordinances include banning .50-caliber, military-style ammunition; licensing ammunition vendors; requiring gun-store owners to make regular gun inventories and report to local law enforcement; and outlawing installation of secret gun compartments in vehicles.
Gang prevention focus of new police program
