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Gang task force educates the community Posted by rmark March 08, 2009 15:57PM
"If any town tells you they don't have gang problems, they are lying," said Detective Leslie Murphy, one of the investigators behind Hudson County's Gang Task Force.
On Feb. 26, New Jersey City University hosted a Gang Awareness workshop for the community, featuring Murphy and Detective William Peterson, also of the Gang Task Force.
The event was sponsored by members of the Mu Sigma Upsilon sorority and Lambda Sigma Upsilon fraternity.
"We got some skepticism at first," said Wanda Guzman, a senior and sister of Mu Sigma Upsilon, about planning the event. With gang violence on the rise across the country, the group agreed that the community was in need of education.
The biggest and most violent groups roaming the streets today, Petersen said, are the Bloods, the Almighty Latin King Queen Nation (Latin Kings), the Crips, the Trinitarios, MS-13 and Dominicans Don't Play (DDP).
And while initiations usually involve getting "beat in," Petersen said the draw to join gangs is usually the promise of respect, drugs, sex, money and a sense of power.
But the reality is gang members end up "in jail or dead," Murphy added.
"My brother-in-law was initiated into the Trinitarios in Passaic," said Guzman, adding that when he later tried to leave the gang, it was close to impossible. He could not leave his house for fear that he would be killed by the same men he once thought of as brothers.
"He had to be relocated to Pennsylvania," she said.
Murphy argued ridding neighborhoods of gangs is a group effort.
"If (citizens) don't get involved, we can't lock these guys up," Murphy said. "It sounds cheesy, but let's take our community back."
Jersey Journal
Posted on: 2009/3/8 20:54
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