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		<title>1st Annual LA Gang Violence Prevention and Intervention Conference, May 21/22.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American artists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  &#60;&#8212;-Click to en-biggen

An important 2-day conference to discuss effective and innovative community-based programs aimed at reducing gang violence in Los Angeles, takes place next Monday and Tuesday, May 21 and 22. 
The event, sponsored by the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles, Hospitals Against Violence Empowering Neighborhoods and Los Angeles County Commission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Members of 18th Street Gang Clique Convicted of Charges Relating to the 2007 Killing of 3-Week-Old Baby Boy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On a warm Saturday night in mid-September 2007, a 22-year-old gang member named Giovanni Macedo waded into a crowd near MacArthur Park and&#8212;as he had been told to do&#8212;opened fire on a street vender who had failed to pay the gang of which Macado was a member $50.   Specifically, Macedo claims membership in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA Probation Officers Stop Jobless Kids From Working at Homeboy Industries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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WHY HAVE SOME JUVIE PROBATION OFFICERS BANNED HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES? 
by Matthew Fleischer 

On first weekend of April, Homeboy Industries founder Father Greg Boyle was making his usual rounds to LA County’s various juvenile probation facilities, when he had a strange conversation with three female probationers.
“I asked them when they were coming to see me at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jumped In: Jorja Leap Looks at Gang Violence Through a Very Personal Lens</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gangs]]></category>
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  My friend Jorja Leap has written a wonderful new book called Jumped In: What Gangs Taught Me About Violence, Drugs, Love and Redemption, about her last ten years spent in some of LA&#8217;s most violence haunted neighborhoods, in order to study the causes and possible solutions to the gang violence that still claims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting the Pull of LA&#8217;s Gangs by Strengthening Families</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chief Beck]]></category>
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When it comes to trying to keep kids out of gangs (or grabbing kids as they&#8217;re slipping perilously in the direction of the streets), Deputy Mayor Guillermo Cespedes says he&#8217;s switching the emphasis of the city&#8217;s Gang Reduction and Youth Development program&#8212;GRYD&#8212;from individuals to families.
Cespedes, who was named by the mayor to head GRYD in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arresting Alex Sanchez: Part 10 &#8211;  Judge Manual Real is Removed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Wednesday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals made the surprising decision to remove  controversial Judge Manual Real from the federal RICO case that involves Alex Sanchez.  
This news shocked nearly everyone who is closely tracking the Sanchez matter.  Yanking a federal judge from a case is anything but business as usual. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA Rolls Out an Are-U-Ready-to Get-Out-of Gangs? Test&#8230;.&amp; other Must Reads</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2012/admin/la-rolls-out-an-are-u-ready-to-get-out-of-gangs-test-other-must-reads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gangs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sentencing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prison policy]]></category>

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This month LA&#8217;s Gang Reduction and Youth Development office (GRYD)&#8212;which runs the city&#8217;s gang intervention and prevention programs&#8212;will roll out a brand new strategy  ostensibly designed to determine how ready a gang member is to get out of his or her gang, and thus how ready they are to receive services that might aid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violence Prevention: Barking With the Choir and Standing With the Despised</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2011/admin/violence-prevention-barking-with-the-choir-and-standing-with-the-despised/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Nearly 20 years ago The California Wellness Foundation was one of the first organizations of consequence  to promote the recognition that violence was not merely a crime problem.  It was a serious public health issue. 
As part of their focus on the topic, every year Wellness puts on a Violence Prevention Conference at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Must Reads (Views and Listens)</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2011/admin/monday-must-reads-views-and-listens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gangs]]></category>
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TOO IMPORTANT TO FAIL
The terrible fact is that a staggering 48-percent of all African American males will drop out of high school.  Tavis Smiley explores what amounts to a national tragedy and looks at what to do about it.  
The PBS show debuts Tuesday night in LA, but check listings for your cable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Round-Up: Psychopaths, Parks Closing, Bad DA Behavior and More</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2011/admin/friday-round-up-psychopaths-parks-closing-bad-da-behavior-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2011/admin/friday-round-up-psychopaths-parks-closing-bad-da-behavior-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

EVEN DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, CALIFORNIA KEPT ITS PARKS OPEN, BUT ALL THAT CHANGES IN SEPTEMBER
Speaking personally, I am still having a hard time believing that the state&#8217;s scheduled parks closure will truly occur, but Timothy Egan&#8217;s NY Times Op-ed brings home the mind-numbing reality that California may really shutter some of its most irreplaceable [...]]]></description>
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