From the Queens Courier:
The New York State Legislature hopes to end gang activity with the help of newly passed anti-gang legislation.
“They are a constant and serious threat to the quality of life in our communities and the safety our children and families,” said State Senator Frank Padavan, who serves the neighborhoods in Northeast Queens like Flushing, Whitestone and Bayside. “This legislation addresses the problem of gang activity at the root with prevention and increased criminal penalties for gang-related activity.”
The State Senate and the Assembly passed the bill on Thursday, June 24, designed to curb gang violence across the state by creating a “gang assessment, intervention, prevention and suppression program” in New York.
The measure would give state law enforcement authorities and local prosecutors a statewide tool to investigate, prosecute and prevent gang activity.
The gang program would allow the New York State Police Superintendent to work with local and federal law enforcement to develop a plan to suppress gang activity and create a centralized location where information relating to gangs operating in the state will be kept.
“It is clear that we have a gang problem in New York State,” said Assemblymember Jeffrion L. Aubry, who serves the neighborhoods of Corona, Corona Heights and East Elmhurst, “particularly in Queens, especially along Roosevelt Avenue.”
It would also authorize the Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) Commissioner to award grants to district attorneys to help stop gang activity. As well as require the forfeiture of financial gains from criminal gang activities be placed in a fund.
“It’s about time,” said Arnaldo A. Salinas, senior director of the Guardian Angels, a non-profit volunteer organization that provides public safety and education programs. “They are a day late and a dollar short. Gangs have been a problem for a long time.”
Salinas pointed out that in Queens, the members of the gangs that try to rule streets are from Latin American countries like Mexico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. He said his main concern is that gangs like the Latin Kings, Los Trinitarios and MS-13 recruit young kids to do their dirty work. That’s why he thinks that it is important for parents to get involved.
8 comments:
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the Arizona state immigration law ( a carbon copy of the federal law) will be in effect July 29,2010.
although obama's D.O.J. has filed suit to deem it unconstitutional.the gang members in Queens cross the mexican border at Texas,Arizona and California to get to Roosevelt Ave.
fire A/G Eric Holder.send him back to Queens County.
I don't know where they get their information but I was assured by the police at the 104th pct. we have no gangs in their watch....
Ditto from the 109th PCT.
They've been sitting for years with their thumbs up their asses and a mouth full of doughnuts saying that there's no significant gang problems in Flushing!
I don't know where they get their information but I was assured by the police at the 104th pct. we have no gangs in their watch....
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Right. I guess the albanians in the park just two blocks away dont count.
they should tax gang activity...that'll stop it
More Cops = more money
Lower crime = less money
More cops, more guns, more prisons, more money.
Incarceration is the fastest growing industry in America, and has been for several years. The prison has replaced the factory or mill as the primary employer in many rural towns.
Anonymous said...
Ditto from the 109th PCT.
They've been sitting for years with their thumbs up their asses and a mouth full of doughnuts saying that there's no significant gang problems in Flushing!
Friday, July 02, 2010
The 109th precint are FULL OF ASSHOLES!!! The KFC on Northern here in Flushing is a Hang Out for MS13 They leave their mark all over Flushing:(
The 109th is known as the promotion precinct. All the officers in that precinct want to do is accumulate as many arrests as possible and gtfo of that precint to some nice comfortable precint like the 110.
BWT the officers at the 109th are REAL pieces of shit.
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