gang members to leave the gangs. they leave the gang for a variety of reasons. they all have a turning point, when they decide to leave. and it changes them. this would be something that any of you would logically imagine. for female gang members, and we did not see many of them on that video, but they are out there. they are not mothers, they are active gang members. female gang members, the turning point came at the birth of a child. for male gang members, the picture is more complex. it may be, surprisingly, it may be because they got their second strike, and they're frightened of getting the third. it may be because of the birth of a child, usually a sign. the gang world has not caught up with post-feminist theory. with the story that a gang member named maniac told me, he decided to leave the rolling 60's after 20 years, after achieving status. he was in the back seat of a car, being driven by one of his underlings in the front seat. one of his fellow gang associates got in the back seat with him. the associate said to move over. maniac did not want to move

you work every day with gang members. you were once a gang member yourself. why do you think you are effective working with young people and what does this mean to you and how we know that this is working. first of all, i want to thank god for his grace. i work with united players. i do reentry and the youth involved in juvenile delinquency. the majority of the kids i work with our gang members. i was formally -- formerly a gang member who grew up in san francisco. we all have stories of guys involved with the gang. everyone has a different story of why they joined. my thing is, i believe it works for me to be involved with kids who were in gangs -- i worked with all of the shot colors and i had a goal while i was there. it took me 10 years before i started to transform my life. in the meantime i have the goal that i wanted to be out here. i wanted the opportunity. i was given a life sentence in 1979. i was involved in gang and i caught a murder case. 15 years to life -- and i came here in 1979 and i got out -- and i have been out for almost five years. in my

i work with gang members, and they never knew that they were gang members. things have changed their. they isolate themselves. this is so small that they cannot go anywhere. the thing with me, with the kids, is just being able to love them. this does not take you yelling at somebody. all they need is the information. sometimes you go through this maze, and there is a dead-end street. i am just coming back. i am giving them information that this is not the way to go. there is no certificate for you. you were the gangster of the year. it does not work for everybody. i save the community a lot of heartache. with the crime that he would comment, just one is worth it for me. [applause] >> commander beale. we hear a lot of discussion about gang interventionists. how should san francisco's gang task force work with these programs? >> well, i'll tell you. i became the commander of investigations a year ago. this is new to me. what i saw was what the men and women do. this was nothing less than amazing. what the task force does is the majority of the contact that the

it's easy to get into the gang and start doing stuff with the gang. away from it other gang members consider them a rat or no good. it's a tough decision for them. they have family members involved, that putting their family members in jeopardy. >> the big issues that i wrestled with was, am i going to get killed by dropping out? is my family going to get killed by dropping out? defected from the gangs. that was my big issue, i started realizing that, am i going to get killed by staying over there? >> what seems to be the biggest problem in your life right now? >> we met jason in an anger management class inside the transitional housing unit. >> get myself on track, keeping myself on track. >> jason had to join the nazi low riders once in prison for protection. just looking at his eyes, you could see at times he almost had this 1,000 yard stare. i'm sure that war veterans have of having seen and felt the shock of so much violence. >> he's serving a life sentence for murder, told us he reached the breaking point when he was ordered to kill a fellow gan

what people defined as a gang, that must be a gang member right there. i have tattoos on my arm and neck and hand, and none of them are getting associated. they all tell personal story in my life. somebody would say that this is a gang member. there would be the artistic side. i think that this comes to a place where there has to be a level of understanding. they have the school system and the politicians. everyone plays a part. [applause] >> you have worked as a police officer -- and now you're the prosecutor. you now prosecute all of the gang cases. what is your >> imagine you are 21, you are from mississippi, going through the police academy. it is 1989 and you are now working in los angeles. after being a patrol officer for just a few months, you are placed on gang detail. you have arrested a youth. instead of taking him to jail, you taken to his mother. the mother says, can you make him more afraid of you that of the gang members? the academy does not prepare you for that. i take that experience and i realized in the gang environment, most of these

okay, gang, let's begin. if i take this ball and i throw it to the air, almost a nice clean, smooth path, doesn't it? a smooth path. what's the name of that path? a parabola, that's right. let's suppose i take something like this l shaped and i throw this to the air. nice clean, smooth path? and no, n-o, right? but there's one part of this that does follow. a nice clean, smooth path, as all other parts wobble about it. and that particular point is the point we're gonna talk about today. and that point is called the... center of gravity. center of gravity or center of mass. we talk about the center of gravity as something, honey, we're talking about the center of weight where all the gravity forces seem to concentrate. seem to. we talk about the center of mass. we're talking about the point where all the matter seems to be concentrated. okay? here's a book. where is the center of gravity of the book? the same place the center of mass is, right in the geometrical center. i could find that by drawing a line like

okay gang.ow many say, "oh, i think it will roll down faster now, "because it got more rotational inertia. it's more lazy." now wait a minute, wait a minute. don't get so mixed up, eh, faster or slower? slower. how many say, slower? almost everybody, almost. okay. it's okay. it's okay. here we go, gang. 1, 2, 3, 4... it was slower. huh--how come? and you know how come because it's stretched out, the mass is further away from the axis of rotation, not all of it, but some of it. and if you make some of it further away, it's gonna increase the inertia, not the linear inertia back and forth, but the rotational. hey, come on, all makes sense, doesn't it? how many more examples do we need to get the point? we got the point already, huh? enough said, get it, boom. that being the case then, maybe a little redundant, but just to be sure, same same, mass. okay? same amount of mass. so we'd say if they have the same mass, same inertia, how about rotational inertia? these things are gonna roll down the hill

for instance, if they belong to some sort of white supremacist gang, hispanic gang, asian gang. >> been diagnosed with an std? >> no. >> ever had sex with an iv drug user? >> no. >> each inmate is given a thorough medical screening to determine their medical history and prevent the spread of disease. the inmates will spend most of their first day in this holding cell, named the library after its former purpose. it's here the inmates will have their first prison meal. >> a lot better than where i just came from, that's for sure. >> i thought it would be a lot better. after the population started getting worse and worse, the food started getting worse. >> randy russell is no stranger to usp. he first came in at the age of 15 and did 17 years on a robbery charge. >> randy, it's not good to see you. okay? >> now, randy is back on a parole violation, leaving behind a wife and four children. >> one time i thought i was going to come back, i asked my wife, i said, should i run? she goes, well i'm not going to make that call. but she goes, but you can't take me with you. if i'm not with my wife

street gang. >> what street gang do you belong to? where? >> we're going to do this.s for now. we're going to make copies of the names and inmates you have in there and put it in your file then give it back to you. >> do you have any questions? all right. >> he hasn't been validated as a prison gang member yet, but he's on his way. back in level 6, happy is headed to the parole board. >> i just came back from rec and i'm fixing to head to the parole board. i'm nervous now. you never know what's going to happen. you don't know if they are going to deny you or let me go. but, i know that somebody up above is looking out for me because if it wasn't meant to be, i wouldn't be here now. so -- worst case scenario, my parole could be denied. best case scenario, i'll be out by 5:00. >>> coming up, will he still be happy after his parole hearing? fredrico files for an out of state transfer. the results are less than he hoped for. >>> happy's parole hearing was held behind closed doors but the result was positive. in the next few hours, we'll be released from the prison where h

child molesters or gang dropouts. thing we learned about prison, doesn't matter where you're housed, your safety is never guaranteed. >> we believe you may have been a victim of a battery. >> joseph de la cruz is a gang dropout, serving nine years for attempted murder at california san quentin state prison. when we first met him, authorities had just discovered that he had been assaulted inside his protective custody cell. >> this morning, you come out of your cell, we did a sweep to find out how many people stayed behind. you were discovered with injuries. and here's the medical report. >> despite obvious injuries, de la cruz refused to give correctional staff any information about the attack. >> we're trying to find out who -- i want to tell them what happened. >> any specific individuals you know are your enemies? >> no, sir. >> how about any prison weapons offenses? >> no, sir. >> do you belong to a gang? >> no, i don't. >> aside from what you're being accused of being a victim, are you involved in any other batte

>> what gang are you affiliated with?ow do you deal with your gang affiliation once you leave here? >> i'm going to ignore them and go to school. >> you think ignoring them is going to work? >> hopefully. >> did it work last time? >> no, last time, i didn't have future plans. i got out, i didn't have my ged. i didn't have no future plans. now i do. i got an education. i got my ged. i'm going to go to college and play football. >> what was your intent with the gun? why did you have it? >> protection. >> from? >> other gang members. >> let me ask you this -- if i sent one of my sergeants to shake your room down right now and your release was dependent on whether or not there was stg material in your room, are you leaving or not? >> coming up on "lockup, pendleton juvenile." >> you were just talking about your victims, you were smiling. why were you smiling? >> tension-filled hours for andrew and abel. there's no guarantee either will go home. later, we find out what happened to the officer marcus branch attacked. can help l

that's helium, gang. now, gang, that's helium. in fact, we have up here, we have 1, 2, 3, 4, so it's helium 4 and what am i going to put for the atomic number? - 2. - 2. - helium, big or small? - small. small, very, very small, you put some helium in a balloon, and you're gonna save the balloon for next week when it's little kathy's birthday, huh? and next week comes and where's your helium balloon? is that on the ceiling anymore? it's on the floor. what happened to the helium? it got through the rubber, why? because it's a big humungous atom? no, because it's tiny. it's tiny, honey, here right through the little open spaces, helium, the smallest atom that there is. i'll tell you another atom that's extremely small too, a little bit bigger than helium and that's fluorine. ever hear of the element fluorine? you be having fluorine in your toothpaste, gang, and guess what the fluorine does to your teeth? you know what the hardest part of your body is? the hardest? the enamel of your teeth. and guess what's small enough to get right i

immediately. >> when you come to the prison, you have to join a gang. you have no choice. it's a must. >> the prison cannot protect you from the other inmates. it's an incredible admission. >> so you have to have that backup from your other races that are out here, whatever race backs you up, you need to be in their gang because you have no protection. you're on your own and anything could happen to you. >> correctional officers know anything can happen to them as well. >> i'm very well aware that the gangs can reach outside these walls. it may hold them in, but it doesn't hold in their power, the things they can do. i keep my family business to

indictment that we did with 10 gang members in bayview. we only went after the 10 most violent gang members. the ones committing murders, robberies. within their gangs, there was another subset of the individuals doing burglaries. those are not the individuals we went after. we went after the most violent ones. by getting of the most violent ones, what happens there was below of homicide, robbery is entailed -- and a lull in retaliatory shootings. what has to be done, you have to find a way to address that lull when it occurs. when he to find a way to have intervention when certain of the most violent members are taken off the streets. we look at the context of the individual, the external factors, and we try to find the appropriate remedy. [applause] >> you started an organization that helps parents who have suffered the death of their child or children by violence. what made evaded you to do this? >> but what motivated you to do this? >> good morning, so glad to be here. i want to thank you for inviting me to this panel. giving honor to

>>> a roundup of gang members in the south bay. i'm bob ridell. >> a south bay program designed to keep kids in school and why this program has been forced to shut down. a story only here on nbc bay area news. >>> remembering the victims of the san bruno fire three years later. the tribute that is planned for tonight. the news at 11:00 starts now. >>> good morning, thank you very much for joining us. i'm jon kelley. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. i'm in for marla tellez. >>> breaking news in palo alto. 101 shutdown in dodge directions because power lines are down on the road. mike s that marsh road? >> the. 101 at marsh road. there you go on the right-hand side, this jam formed over the last five minutes. this is at university. this is about two and a half miles south of the incident. northbound side completely closed because of power lines that are record across highway 1 blocking both directions at one point. now you see a few cars heading south and they may have gotten on the freeway south of marsh but the southbound lanes should b

we're probably unique in how we deal with the gangs out here. we've accepted the fact that there are going to be gangs and there's nothing we can do about it, so we try to control, you know, what they do. and we use the leaders a lot to control that. most of our leaders here have done a lot of time in our maximum security facility. they don't want to go back. and we hold that over their head. we tell them to keep their people in line or they're the first ones that are going to go down, because we know how gangs work. we know this gang member isn't going to do anything unless he's got it cleared to the top. come on in, have a seat. so you want to give me your story? >> well, i mean, to be honest, i don't really have one. i mean, i feel like this dude is just trying to get out of trouble. he knows who i am and i go under the bus every time. >> who was the other guy? >> wright. >> the other one that got him -- >> yeah. >> was he doing something to him? >> no, i mean, maybe. i mean, everyone knew this guy was a piece of trash, but who knows, you kno

those are big ideas, gang. what is going on with the whole cosmos, and there are people that from day to day work on those kind of things and that's how they bring their lunch every day to work on. those are the astrophysicists and the astronomers, really wild stuff. but when you start to think about these things that are far away like that and big, it kind of humbles you. because let's make a graph about what this whole thing is. here we are right here. here is the big bang, i'm going to just draw a graph right on this space here. here's the big bang, this is 50 billion years later and a hundred, okay? when is the time that human beings learned how to control fire in this whole cycle? it's about here. when that graph is about here, the human beings learned how to make fire. where are human beings now? about here, okay? here's where we used to be when we were in the caves and now we're like this and we got this to go off in this one cycle. i got a question for you. what will it be like? what will we be like whe

that's it gang. that's called the universal law of gravitation and that law of gravitation was developed by, guess whom? isaac newton. you know what? a lot of people think that isaac newton discovered gravity. he didn't, the cavemen knew about gravity. the cave women knew about gravity. what newton discovered was what? check your neighbor and see if your neighbor be knowing. in other words, did you get a chance to look through the chapter? what did newton discover about gravity? newton discovered that gravity is what, gang? universal, universal, you're right. universal, that gravity extends everywhere. and what this equation tells us? the equation of gravity just tells us that there's an attractive force, 'f' between all things and for any two things that attractive force depends upon, is proportional to, is related to the product of the masses of the two things. this might be a planet, one. this might be another planet, two. those two planets are tugging on each other with the force that depends ver

that didn't even gang bang.ontes maintains his innocence in this case, he admits to past violence with his gang. >> well, the things that i did, it was like little things, you know. shoot-outs with different gang bangers, but never actually killed no one. injure them? yeah. killed them? no. i'm not a murderer. i'm not hard-core gangster. homey, no. my things were usually drugs, weapons, money, easy. i had good grades in elementary, junior high, high school. i graduated with a 3.17. i'm a certified electrician. people used to say, he works. he has a good job, but i started hooking up with different people, older friends, older guys. serious business. so, i was, easy money. i will do that favor for you, you know, let's go. >> what was easy money? >> delivering, here, there. they used me to do all these runs. was i getting paid good money? yeah. was it worth it? not really. but that's one thing that i thank god for being locked up, is because being on the street, when i was on the street, oh, man, i was bad. i woul

but here's the point i want to make, gang. if it takes four seconds to go from here to here, it takes four seconds to go from here to here. so i ask people when they get up there, do you suppose if you jump, you could hit the pool? and how would you find out? and here's what you do. you figure out how fast, how far out you could jump in one second, okay, in one second, then multiply that four times and you got it. it turns out you'll really hit way down here. let me--i hit something like way in here, see? in one second, i can jump that far, two seconds that far, three seconds that far, four seconds that far. so it turns out, it gets very, very steep very, very quickly and you get so far. knowledge of physics. you people are gonna find out that as you learn more and more physics, your social life is gonna increase because people are gonna gather around you. people are gonna find you more interesting, okay, because you're gonna have things to talk about now, okay? just like the time years ago, a fellow came to the town in san fr

dig this, gang, inertia doesn't tell you why. oop, boom. sorry, gang. [laughter] thanks for telling me at the last minute, gang. sometimes you find out who your friends are, huh? how would you guys like it if i was standing like this? oh, boy. okay. [laughter] this room will be filled with people next time, right? people like violence, right? right? okay. this must have touched the wall. and the wall touched it, pushed it back, huh? yeah. so what's the force keeping that going? inertia. no force. we don't know why it keeps going. but we call that ignorance inertia. get the idea? nobody knows why it keeps going. we just know that it does and so we call that inertia. any forces acting on this ball, by the way, on this cylinder? any forces acting on it, right now? - yeah. - yeah. force of gravity. and force of gravity is pulling it straight down. isn't that true? okay. if the force of gravity is pulling it straight down, why doesn't it go straight down? by the way, is that accelerating right now? no, it's not. and if it's not accelerating, what does newton

take your lungs, gang, and flatten them out. cover the rug of all this room and two other rooms too. you have enormous surface area on your lungs. all those little many folds, and see you make up for that too. how about the intestines of a being? what's the intestines of a worm look like? straight line too. from mouth to back. huh? how about the intestines of something big like a human being? many, many folds. you know why? 'cause as you get bigger and bigger, you got more and more to nourish and you got to get more and more surface area. you think so? okay. gets bigger and bigger, right? let's suppose the living cell gets double the size. someone say, "oh, double the size and it got four times as much skin." but four times as much skin feeding how much more cell? eight times as much cell. so its teeth grow and grow. and, honey, the skin don't keep up with the cell that's got to be fed. so you know what it's gonna do? it's gonna die or divide. guess what it do? divides. it divides. aren't you glad that they divide, 'cause it can

what's the object do, gang? it just keeps right on going. it used to be said like, for example, if you wanna fly from san francisco to new york city, all you got to do is take a helicopter, just go up and wait three hours and come back down again, okay? what's wrong with that? that helicopter doesn't go up and just stay there. that helicopter is moving just as fast as the earth, and so it just keeps moving around like that, you see? so you're riding an airplane. you've been in an airplane? you flip a coin. when you flip a coin, do you have to adjust for the motion of the plane? let's suppose you're going this way 600 miles an hour. i'm like, "man, if i flip that coin, boom, "that coin gonna go bam, 600 miles an hour against the passenger in the back seat." - that happen? - no. why doesn't it happen? what if you were on a plane and someone says, "hey, how come, man? i flipped a coin, flipped it, come right back down." it's not that--i know i'm going 600 miles an hour. when i flipped it--in fact, you ever be in an airplane, you see a fly come

they segregate inmates based on color and gangs. why do prisons not work on educating inmates on social relations, racial tolerance, and why don't they find a way so the different races can get to know each other? >> i would like to enter that. segregation has -- i would like to answer that. segregation has always been a problem in this country. i grew up in new orleans. we believe that education is the key. we all need to sit at the table. i do not believe in segregation

that's right, it's one second, gang. 'cause if it's gonna take one second for something to fall five meters and you toss it out, it's still five meters vertical. it's like this thing over here. if this is five units down, this one comes out, it's still five units down stretched out, huh? so it's gonna take one second. so 25 meters divided by 1 second gives you 25 meters per second. isn't that neat? there's some good physics there, gang. do you like? let me ask you a question. would the ball be in the air for a longer time if there were a hill like this? yes. would the ball be in the air for a longer time if the earth's curvature came into play? yeah. it turns out if he throws that thing really fast, it might go so far out that the curve of the earth is falling away. you see that? in fact, if he keeps throwing faster and faster and faster, he might throw it off the earth altogether. isaac newton, physics type in 1700, figured it out like this. consider a mountain on the earth that's so high that it's up above air drag and

gangs first allegiance is to the gang second allegiance is how the gang makes money third allegiance might be us the people we may be third fourth or fifth i'm not really sure but they are set up and they operate just like gangs they acquire turf if any third entity ends into the turf the two gangs will team up to expel that third entity or absorbed that third entity so the mindset is identical to the street gangs the crips and the bloods and i apologize to the crips and bloods for having to do that too i'm. and jesse in your book you say that the third party movement tends to start whenever there is a crisis in the country do you believe that that was the case with the occupy movement. it could be but i do wrong i go longer support the third party movement i now support the abolishment of all political parties and i have pretty good people that stand behind me in the book if you read my chapter two you'll find that george washington the father of our country thomas jefferson and john adams all agree with me that party should not take over governments and apparently we're not listeni

they segregate inmates based on color and gangs. why do prisons not work on educating inmates on social relations, racial tolerance, and why don't they find a way so the different races can get to know each other? >> i would like to enter that. segregation has -- i would like to answer that. segregation has always been a problem in this country. i grew up in new orleans. we believe that education is the key. we all need to sit at the table. i do not believe in segregation for inmates. they need to tear that barrier down and put people together, no matter what. when we go inside the walls of san quentin, it is not just black inmates. it is hispanic, pacific islanders, white, native americans, it is everybody. when they leave that room, they go back to their communities that are segregated. they, too, do not like it. it is a barrier that has to be torn down. i know it works. being in there for the last four years, we make it a point that everybody mixes up, even the seating. you do not just sit with a black person or a white person. i

let's review something, gang. i'll put a ball here, a little spring gun and another ball here and as you know when i release this, both balls will fall at the same time. did i not demonstrate that to you? let's try it again. if at first, you don't succeed, why try again? no sense being a fool about it. here we go. and indeed they hit the ground at the same time. and the rule there is gravity doesn't take a holiday on moving objects. let's suppose i just dropped them, what would happen? no surprise, but do you know to some people, it's a surprise that they do hit at the same time when they're fired. now i'm going to pull it back further. still the same time? that's got to be level, gang. and watch. still the same time. the time it takes to drop has to do with how high it is, not how fast it's going sideways. we learned that? and how far it's gonna fall down will depend on how longer time. does anyone remember the relationship for how far down will it fall as time goes by? can i give you that relationship right here