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Helping
kids get out
To
prevent gang involvement among your kids, here are some tips from End Gang Life
initiative’s Youth and Gangs booklet, available at endganglife.ca in English,
Chinese, Punjabi and Arabic.
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Always
know where your kids are, what they are doing, and who they are with.
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Avoid
“tough love” such as cutting them off or forbidding them from going out.
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Take
an interest and be a part of your children’s school and extracurricular
activities.
·
Help
your kids choose positive friends.
·
Have
open communication with your kids so they feel comfortable talking to you.
·
If
you suspect your child may be involved in gang activity already, Sgt. Houghton
advises to:
·
Approach
your local police or school counsellor for help. Ask questions. Inquire about
community resources aimed at immigrant youth and their families.
·
Talk
to your child. Open the conversation calmly with an observation. For example,
“I was cleaning up your room and found some stuff that concerns me. We should
talk.” Tell your child you’ve done some research and why you are afraid for
them.
·
Arrange
a mini-intervention-style discussion with a police officer. Sgt. Houghton says
that most kids successfully walk away once they have the knowledge and support
to help them get out of a gang.
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BC
- ASian/Black gangs
Children
as young as 10 being recruited into Surrey, B.C. gangs, report finds
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Peel Region Police Chief Jennifer Evans has also
blamed the end of street checks for the rise in violence.
TORONTO-= black on black....gang-and-gun violence in
Canada’s biggest city, wracked by 208 shootings so far this year − an increase
of nearly a fifth from 2017.
Toronto Mayor pleads for help from Ontario, Ottawa
after 10 shot in five days
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Breaking
the cycle of gang violence: A Toronto program aimed at intervening with youth
involved in gang activity is showing results
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Gang
proof your kids: newcomer youth vulnerable
Over
the past 25 years gangs have become more diverse, ethnically and socioeconomically.
A prime example is the UN gang, which first rose to prominence in B.C.’s Fraser
Valley in the late 1990s. At its height, the gang had 200 members and, like the
organization it was named after, represented dozens of different cultures.
“Immigrant
kids become Canadianized really quickly. They tell their parents ‘I need a $200
pair of shoes to fit in.’ And when we ask kids whose parents give them a $20
allowance each week why they joined a gang they say, ‘I didn’t want a crappy
job. I thought selling drugs was a quicker way to make money. I didn’t realize
the risks.’ The sad reality is, very few people get rich in gangs.”
Ending
gang life
Fortunately,
there is more education available today to help those at-risk kids like Rodney
and Carrillo avoid gang life. The BC-CFSEU’s End Gang Life initiative, for
example, uses edgy posters, videos and radio ads to reach at-risk kids in
Vancouver and across the country. The posters are deliberately raw and direct,
using shocking images and statistics to address the reality of gang life.
“The
feedback has been extremely positive,” Sgt. Houghton says. “We have kids coming
up to us after a talk. One young man came up to us in tears to tell us his
cousin had been pressuring him to sell drugs, but now he knew how to stand up
to him.”
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Organized
Crime in Canada - The Canadian Encyclopedia
First
Nations organized crime gangs have long existed in Canada. One prominent native
organized mob group is the "Manitoba Warriors," which operates in the
Winnipeg area. In January 2014, Winnipeg police arrested 57 men and women aged
17 to 51, alleging that they were members or associates of what police called
the "the city's most powerful ...
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‘A
struggle of integration’: Deportation used to counter gang activity within
Toronto's growing Afghan community
But
he said he was less worried about gangs than the high drop-out rate among
Afghan boys.
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BLOG:
CANADA'S
GANG VIOLENCE-QUOTE: But there has never been a better time in history to be
black in Canada and it’s time we start acting like it./#blackonblack Gang Wars
#whiteonwhite Gang Wars Canada-2 many innocent Canadians dying!
#firstrespondersmatter and #victimsmatter/ Please stop hurting and killing our
innocents- and raping Canada of our innocence and gentle nation of so much good
– we deserve better in 2016- #alllivesmatter/April 2016- Nova Scotia 2 many
black sons murdered by black sons with guns /Keep the peace stop the violence
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Police
keeping an eye on several ‘newcomer’ gangs popping up in Winnipeg
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A
History of Violence
I
spent my teens running with street gangs. They gave me a sense of power and
belonging that I couldn’t find anywhere else. Then I got into a knife fight in
a Coffee Time bathroom—and the other guy wound up dead
By
Segun Akinsanya | Photograph by Luis Mora | January 21, 2016
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Report
offers rare peek into Canadian gang life and high-risk youth
Prof.
Ngo chose this demographic as his subject matter because their numbers are
increasing nationally and because not enough research has been done on what
pulls these youth into gangs.
Calgary
was the battleground for the intense and bloody feud between FOB (originally
known as Fresh Off the Boat, now stands for Forever Our Brothers) and FK (FOB
Killers). The two sides, which both had Asian and Caucasian members, were part
of the same gang until 2002 when the FK faction broke off and began fighting
for control of the drug scene.
Why
so many Somali-Canadians who go west end up dead
Since
2005, dozens of young men from Canada's Somali community have been killed, most
of them casualties along a cocaine-dusted corridor between the housing projects
of Toronto and the oil patch in Alberta. Most cases remain unsolved.
The
Somali-Canadian community may be rooted in Toronto, but the source of its grief
is in Alberta, where at least 23 young men have died in the past seven years.
They
come here dreaming of well-paying jobs, hoping to send money back home and end
two decades of poverty. But many lack recognized skills and end up chronically
underemployed, driving cabs or working as hotel housekeepers; or they're unemployed,
as is the case with more than 300 Somalis in Fort McMurray today.
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Immigrant
youth and crime: Stakeholder
perspectives on risk and protective factors
Unlike the
United States, Canada
does not release to the public
crime statistics related to race and ethnicity, apart from those of Aboriginal
Canadians and federal prison populations; consequently, there has been little
research conducted in
this area within
the Canadian context. Although
crime statistics are not readily available, data from the 2002
Canadian Police Survey on Youth Gangs suggest that a majority
of gang members
(some 82 percent)
are from the
so-called visible inorities -
African-Canadian, Asian, Hispanic,
East Indian and
the like. We can
assume that
many of these
youth are first- or
second-generation Canadians, the
offspring of
parents who emigrated
to Canada over
the past couple
of decades. (Chettleburgh, 2005, pp. 29-30)
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Criminal
Gun and Gang Violence in Canada
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Youth
Gangs in Canada: A Review of Current Topics and Issues
Table
of Contents
Abstract Author's Note Introduction What is a Youth Gang? Why Do Youth Become Involved in Gangs? What Are the Consequences Associated with
Youth Gangs? What Are the
Risk and Protective Factors for Youth Gang Involvement? Who Joins Youth Gangs in Canada? Snapshop on Three Key
Populations of Interest
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Gang
life allure: Drugs, fast money, easy sex
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We can't keep tiptoeing around black-on-black
violence ...
Feb
20, 2013 - “At no point did the government say, 'We have to tackle this problem
inToronto and the GTA of African-Canadian youth killing each other,” said ...
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Why
rich Mexicans are fleeing to Canada as refugees
Gangs
target financially successful families in the country’s ongoing drug war
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The
White Boy Posse are a Western Canadian gang who may be responsible for the
murder of an innocent mother, along with their usual fare of decapitations and
coke slinging.
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