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

leave gangs. either one, they need help building their identities. they need help with sang an alternative to the gang life. they need someone who is interested in them. i am going to tell you a story, and i will talk about who those people are. when i was a sweet young thing and a social worker in nickerson gardens, i had that one kid. every gang interventionist, every person in this room knows about that one kid. all of us have that kid. they touch us for reasons we cannot articulate. i don't know why bobby touched me, his name was little devil but i never wanted to call him by that name. i think about his personality and that maybe the reason. he was 14 years old and had been abused, and was in foster placement with his hat -- aunt. i fell in love with him in the most proper, loving, in the most big sister way. i would say to him, with all the ignorance of the young social worker, i will always be here for you, always. always. it was a friday night, and i had gone on a string of disasters state

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

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

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

but now a new gang has emerged.orn in san antonio and rapidly spreading both on the streets and in prisons and jails. they are called the tango orejones. >> at one point they were all together and then as the years progressed they eventually broke away and now they're at odds with each other. the orejones began as foot soldiers of the mexican mafia but in the late 1990s they split off to form their own gang, which today rejects the mafia's strict rules and structure. >> [ bleep ]. >> they're very loose. there's no constitution. there's no real process on getting in. you can literally be an orejone tomorrow if you want to be one. orejones recruit on a daily basis. you send one orejone to population, within 24 hours he's going to have three people with him. what started as a few members of orejones quickly grew into hundreds of members. and we went from having a small problem to having a large problem. >> orejone, baby! >> we eventually had to get all the orejones we confirmed and basically corral them to one living a

as being part of a gang. the term "gang" is manifested through the media, and law enforcement for numbers. it was more of a community. i did not go to school and meet somebody. i lived on this block and this is where my grandmother's house was, or i was born and raised. what people may see on tv was at my front door. the killing and the dope dealing. it was right there. this was a community list of people, we just grew up together. there were no handouts and no one told us how to conduct ourselves. and tell us what to wear. someone could have a school fight, and we may be at the mall, and see the person we have a fight with. the army and navy have their bar fights. i did not see this as being a game, or a community. supporting each other, this may have been in a negative way. i did not have a stable household. many of them do not of their fathers are, where their father is dead. in their return, the block i gave up -- this is who i looked up to. he had a notorious reputation. there was the violence and in ret

so it's only gonna fall five meters, gang. and we can do that for any number of meters if we just do it in general. say, like this. the average speed when acceleration is constant, it is simply the speed you begin with plus the speed you end up with divided by two, the average amount, and then multiplied by the time of fall. but we're always gonna take the case where the initial speed is zero. so we're simply gonna end up with the speed we end up with at the end of any time interval divided by two multiplied by the time. what's the speed that an object will have after it's fallen, just in general? for one second we know it's 10, but how about t seconds? anyone know? do we have any relationship for how fast something falls? right here. in fact, if the acceleration is g, the speed is gonna be gt, the one we had right over here, huh? so let's put that over here. see what we have here? is this time and this time the same? this is the time that it was falling. and this is the time it was falling too. they're the same time. so i can

he didn't have gang. he didn't even know too much about the gang as a matter of fact he said to him when i warned him about where to go and where not to go he said grandma. this is america. this is. where we're supposed to be free this is where we're supposed to be able to walk down any street we choose. and the next day a dad doing what he's all. this is right. there is a way a lot of man. and man. can you imagine a society where mothers up burying their children instead of their children burying their mothers. were. were were. were . it's ok to cry and have to cry. i had to cry in order to to to keep gone. i have to walk because if i don't cry and i keep body and go up to me. i may do some help people say oh you can get over it hell no we can't we just get through it just get through that never get over it if you don't take my dog you didn't walk alone on my house you know you didn't you know we possess my car my son was murdered he just didn't die he was murdered. so when i finally my back was go i was

he didn't have gangs. he didn't even know too much about the gang as a. way to go and where not to go. he said grandma. this is america. this is. where we're supposed to be free this is where we're supposed to be able to walk down any street we need to use. and the next day he died doing what he thought. this is right move. move move. move. down what is a way a live man. and upper management. can you imagine a society where mothers are burying their children instead of their children varying their mothers. were. way. way way way. way. why. it's ok to cry and happy. i had to cry in order to to to keep gone. have to cry because if i don't cry and i keep body and go up to me. i may do something you know people say oh you can get over it hell no we can't we just get through it just get through it and never get over it if you don't take my dog eat it and walk close on my house you know you didn't you know repossessed my car my son was murdered he just didn't die he was murdered. so. when i finally went back to school i was always crying and it's amazing all th

you are not a gang member? >> no. >> go back to your unit. >> thank you. >> thanks for your time. >> officer rodriguez and corporal garcia will continue to monitor perales and for now, would like to see her pen pal relationships continue. >> one reason why we're not jumping on that right at this point, we don't want to expose the fact that we know she's receiving mail. once we expose that they'll cut her off and this may be something we could potentially use to learn information. so, so far we'll go ahead and give her the benefit of the doubt that she's not doing anything, however we did warn her if anything comes out we'll take appropriate action. >> perales has no intention of giving rodriguez and his team any more to work with. she says her brief experiment with pen pals has been more trouble than it's worth. >> i mean, i don't even know who he is, i never seen that person. and, you know, i get letters and i can't even read them, i don't know what the hell it says and find out it has gsrp, whatever it is in

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

gang members love to put their gang somewhere visibly on their body so rival gang members or their ownang members can identify them as are they friend or foe. >> let me see your tattoos, man. take off your shirt. what have you got? >> and we train our class officers to look for these identifiers. and if they can't get the gang member to self-admit, then we refer to the gang officers and we look at the tattoos. aside from their tattoos, we'll look at their history in the facility. do they have a history of conducting gang-related activity, strong-arming in the units, group assaults, things of that kind of nature. in conjunction with their tattoos and that history we can go ahead and establish whether or not we think the guy's a gang member. >> raymond diaz is upfront about his gang-related tattoos. >> the stuff i got on me, a lot of it is gang-related. they call them like stamps, you know. everything was done behind bars with a staple. we don't use fancy needles and all that. the main part of my chest, it's blast, dongo blast. it's probably one of the biggest prison gangs in texas. i ch

that's where the gang problem so-called is it's been redefined as a crime problem and a gang problem but it's really an issue of no work and dysfunctional schools and so on we know that what we've been doing to deal with gang violence isn't working but we just keep doing the same thing over and over again and then we say well the fact that it isn't working doesn't mean that we're acting out of ignorance or maybe we need to learn something we say it just proves that these kids are unredeemable. it's a belief that our society did not contribute to the formation of this problem that's the story of the scapegoat. the gang member is the scapegoat. nothing's our fault it's their fault. we didn't create them. they're inevitably incorrigible. this. continuing our history of denial virtually guarantees that history repeats clear on april twenty ninth one thousand nine hundred twenty seven news five miles away from the flashpoint for the one thousand and sixty five watch rebellion. again brooklyn's violent costly outbreak of civil unrest in u.s. history live. with the explosion of angry protes

the first panel has a riveting discussion about gangs. and reducing gang violence. on our panel are former gang members, gang intervention workers, police, public defenders, and researchers. we talk about strategies to reduce gang violence. i will introduce the keynote speaker in a moment. the second panel is a cutting edge -- cutting edge discussion about the relationship between the human brain and criminal behavior. we have top experts from all parts of the country to talk about what the brain research shows. that is the key to understanding how human beings behave, and why they may commit acts of violence. the afternoon's panel will have a debate about a proposed law that would reduce felony drug possession crimes to a misdemeanor. this is what 13 states have done. we not only bring these issues to the forefront, but have the opportunity to participate -- and we have cards that you could fill out and questions. this promises to be a year of reform and change like we have never seen, and we now see prisoner reentry programs being implemented. we're still spending

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 talabout w, okay? just like the time years ago, a fellow came to the town in san franci

here's my bias, gang. to understand more about these things is to appreciate more about these things. now that's a bias. i could be wrong. and that's individual. i'll give you an example. the person who appreciates music most is a person who understands music, who knows what to listen for. and i think, too, the person who can appreciate the world most is the person who understands most what's going on. what i'm gonna be doing in this course is not telling you how beautiful the world is. i'm gonna be telling you what to look for. and when you look for things, you'll see that, "hey, that's a beauty," that you would've-- wouldn't have noticed otherwise. so we're talking things like that. and then we're gonna talk a little bit about nuclear physics: fission, fusion, radioactivity. what do you suppose makes the earth hot? volcanoes. where's all that heat coming from? would you believe it's nuclear power? nuclear power under the ground? would you believe it's radioactive decay? you know, if this were a piece of

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 le 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 p

and gang members. that doesn't reflect suspected members. they're all confirmed member. we have approximately some where between 200, 300 suspected gang members at this facility. >> most of the gangs are divided along racial lines. but the majority of gang members here belong to white supremacist gangs. the aryan brotherhood and knights. prison officials suspect a growing religious group, asatru may bea front. one of the asatru leaders at wabash denies that. >> there has never been anything in my study that says, one race is more dominant over another. one culture more dominant than another. or one religion dominant over another. asatru believers believe our religion is fine. your religion is fine. >> guy radcliff, practicing asatru for several years here. says there is one group who is not welcome. >> if we find out that somebodien tsomebody in the asatru community was a child molester he would be banned. he cannot participate. it is a bylaw. you cannot bea sex offender. >> ratcliff who used the group

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