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 youths are coming from single- family households. in the area where the gang violence is most prevalent, great citizens of the community, 99% of those citizens are afraid. as a prosecutor, i take this experience and figure out how i want to enforce gang violence, especially in san francisco. i break it down into three categories. you have the individual who is not fully immersed in the gang lifestyle. he is just an associate comment just hanging out. -- associates, just hanging out.

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 heart, i knew i found a solution when i was incarcerated. and there are different stories. some of the kids joined the gangs because they want to fit into something. some of them don't have a family, and the father and mother are working. for a lot of kids, there is a lot of idle time. it is not like, i will join the gang and i will shoot you. you grow up that way, and before you know you are cutting school. this is begins. working with the d

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 over. maniac did not want to move over. the associate shoved him over and 10 seconds later, a gun was shot and the bullet came into the car, pierced the associate to the neck and killed him instantly. maniac said, if he had not shoved me aside i would be dead. i am done. that was his turning point. call it a turning point, called the teachable moment. use whatever terminology that you want. that is where we need to be present. when i say we, i mean, we. at that turning point, at that moment of truth, that teachable moment, it is imperative that resources be brought to bear. now, what are the two most impressive resources that are brought to b

defected from the gangs. ed 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. >> getting 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 gang member. >> they told me if i don't do it, if i don't do the right thing and whack the guy, i would be whacked. so i started seeing that they asked people to do stuff that they wouldn't do themselves, and they're playing people as a puppet. and that's what basically they are, puppet masters. and i'm not a puppet. >> one of the things i noticed in the transitional

. >>> california state prison corcoran has one of the largest populations of dangerous gang members of any prison on the west coast. our crews have visited here several times and correctional staff is always blunt about the danger. >> when talking to the cos at corcoran, they told me, you come in here, you have to join a gang for protection. 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

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

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 know

would. >> reporter: three teams com priced of the gang unit and probation department performed gang sweeps this morning arresting those known to be in violation of their parole and checking on others to make sure they weren't in violation and something the law enforcement try to do at least once a month. >> to deter people from committing a crime and being gang affiliated and educate parents what may not know their children have gang affiliations and show them what to look for and then, you know, provide resources when people want to leave this lifestyle. >> reporter: deputies admit the sweeps have produced some, but not a lot of success in terms of reducing gang membership. and that is frustrating. knowing that in spite of their best intentions, there are still at least 100 different gangs out on the streets of santa clara county. >> as a member of society and as a parent, if i can take a gun off the street or dope off the street, that's the satisfaction, you know? gang violence is a community problem affecting all of us and if we can do anything to minimize that, that's good. >> re

that's a gang under the folk nation. the first gang experience was probably when i was probably 14. f it was just kind of like another family, and the other part of it was just fitting in. it's an adrenaline rush. it got your adrenaline pumping and i don't know. a lot of teenagers, that's kind of what we do it for is that adrenaline rush. i got my first felony when i was 9, and like a lot of my family kind of -- they was with me at first and then they kind of gave up on me. because they seen i kept getting locked up and they figured there was no hope for me. >> the adolescents, sometimes when they go through the court system, i like to say they're a three-time loser. many of the parents have been through court, numerous times, they've seen their child kicked out of school, kicked out of the community. honestly, once they come in to our system, a lot of the parents have said i can't do this anymore. >> indiana department of correction commissioner david donahue says it takes a special kind of person to work with the juvenile population. >> our community support or lack thereof is prob

in the '80s, he was a member of another gang. you can't do that. you can't be in two clicks. put out to kill the guy. i happened to be in jail when the word was put out. there was consistency, so we had the same officer coming in four or five days a week. then he'd have two days off. he would then come back on. i studied him and his mannerisms and behavior. when i got to the point i felt comfortable, i made my move. while everybody was eating, i sat down next to him on his bed and talked to him. he got up. turned on his light, which sat across the desk on the wall to roll a cigarette. bible paper. when he turned his back to me, i stood on the bed and put the rope around his neck. he fought me and threw me around the room. surprisingly strong. i guess when you're fighting for your life, you have strength. ultimately, he couldn't get the rope off his neck. once he died, i put him back to bed like he was asleep. turned off his light. >> you got away with it? >> i got away with it. i went and picked a fight with some black guys in another pod just to do that because i knew if i c

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 god for allowing me to be here today to do this work. if it was not for him, i could not be he

the day? check your neighbor. all right, gangthe mississippi river, mississippi river got a lot of dirt up there, and that dirt all flow southward and as it flow southward, what happens to the length of the day, to new orleans, okay? hey, so what? it turns out, the distribution of the earth, if we change the rotational inertia, what will happen to the spin rate? it will change also, decrease one, you increase the other, ain't that neat? so you've got a whole lot of stars out there, and all these stars are all coming. they are slightly, slightly rotating, okay? and as they rotate, they gravitationally come in, and they get closer and closer and closer. now what do you suppose happens to the rotation rate of this new galaxy being formed as these stars all start to get closer to one another, take a guess. what's going to happen to the rotation rate? spread right out into a nice big disk honey and that's the way it is. so when you look out at astronomy, astronomers all the time interested in angular momentum because they know what's

bug, we just exported the gang life out there. >> randall's gang activity led to his incarceration at the youth facility and soon after, prison. there he joined a militant gang called the black guerrilla family. >> ended up in 15 years solitary confinement. tried to get back into the main line, but it was kind of hard. after facing walls for 15 years and handcuffs everywhere i went, i didn't adjust too well. i still became more assaultive, more combative, more violent. >> after 25 years of incarceration, randall had plenty of violent episodes to share. >> i had threw a bomb in an inmate's cell and blew his toilet off the wall and blew a patch of his leg off. an officer came to my door. i made a zip gun out of some magazines and i shot him in the face. >> as the story unfolds about why he's there, what he's done in prison, it can send chills up your spine. then it occurs to you, i'm sitting right in front of this guy. anything can happen to me. >> most of randall's violence was directed at his cellmates. >> i don't have a problem taking a cellie but what i have a problem with is crackh

why is it rolling down the hill, gang? see this, gang? center of gravity is right here in the center, right? pulling down, but the point of support is over here. and what's this little distance in here called? lever arm. lever arm. and what's this here? force, right? and--force through a lever arm produces a-- torque. --torque. and what's a torque produce? rotation. rotation. and so we see when we let the ball go-- unless we go mumbo jumbo, then you let go and-- hey. did you guys see that? magnet. not the same disk. what's going on here, gang? there's a magnet in that. you're out in the south seas. you come to an island. you wanna set yourself up with the new people and you take a disk like this and you go, humba, humba, humba, humba, humba. [laughter] follow me, i'll make your crops grow. you guys get out there and tow the fields and i'll humba, humba, humba, okay? come on, gang. what's going on here? any of the guys know? did you ever throw a dice in reno and all the time, man and seven comes up, huh? guess why. it's loaded, honey. guess

the board. you wanna see it? here it is. 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 very

gang members. this is generally the leadership, those that are trying to run the gang. >> they are the more active ang members. that's the reason we have them here because they are so active. and they're the ones who like to start trouble. >> while proud to be a skinhead, curtis doesn't want to be considered a gang member anymore. >> i'm no part of them. i've never been a part of them, nor will i ever be a part of them. those dudes, in my mind, are weak and lame. they're not white supremacists, because of these groups that commit crimes and do all the crap that they do, people are going to look at us bad. >> at utah state prison, staff estimates that almost 1,000 inmates, roughly one-quarter of the prison population, are active gang members. >> we are around our rivals all day. anything can happen to me. >> stick with your gang. stick with who you know and where you're safe. >> it's not a gang, it's not an organization. being a skin head is a way of life. >> it's not illegal to belong to a gang. however, when those gangs start becoming involved in criminal activity, then we will separate those gang

what do you think the answer is in reducing gang violence? >> i want to give thanks for another day here and an opportunity to share this space with everybody. all of the beautiful courage that it takes to be up here. a lot of energy to the healing circle as well. as a juvenile, i was in juvenile hall and i went through that whole system myself. i have worked with tattoo removal, i went to other development programs. through personal experience and being raised by a single mom and being proud of my dad imprisoned and now pursuing my education, i would say there is not one answer. the answer is that there is not an answer. you have brought about by bringing this conversation forum. it is not just law enforcement perspective, it is not just the community-based perspective, it is not just the research perspective, it is a multi- layered approach. first and foremost, we do have to consider meeting youth where they are act. we are talking about perpetrators of violence or what not or system involved or involved in gangs, we have to meet them where

what would be the answer, gang? how many say, yeah, "i think "that's the time of the month to dig your clams, honey. that's the time i'm gonna go." show hands. 1, 2, 3, okay. how many say, "no, i think i'd go to the time honey "when it's got the least fullness. i'll go at the time of the new moon." hey, even steven seem saying, "no, i'm gonna go when it's a half moon." or, "i don't know "i'm not too good thinking about such things. i'm here to take notes, gang." you tell me, i'll write it down, teach and i'll memorize it and i'm just looking for a "c," anyway. at the time of the full moon, how's the high tide going to be? extra high? are you gonna go digging clams at the high tide? are you gonna wait till low tide comes? you wait six hours later and you go, right? now should you go at the time of a full moon? how many say, yeah, that's the best time because you can get more clams because the water go away, way out and you get a real, real, low, low tide. show hands, only two people on this side of the room. i got som

i don't look the part of the white supremacy gang. and i did. i got in the truck. somebody tells you -- some guy with tattoos all over the place tells you to get in this truck and you smell the body, you know it's in there. you don't go no, never mind, i don't think so, i'm going to go home. no, you just go and you say okay and you pray to god that there's going to be a chance for you to get away from it. i kept on spraying perfume in the back so we didn't smell it. i didn't look in the back. i didn't want to see the body. >> a month later shanholtzer was arrested for murder. the charge was eventually reduced to accessory after the fact. she pled guilty and served a 16-month sentence at the orange county jail. >> why were you running with that gang in the first place? >> my children's father was one of their friends. just start hanging out with all of his friends. and all his friends treated me like i was the princess, and i had troubles when i was going through school being made fun of. their anymore -- their nickname was julie germs. i don't know why they called

you say-- person next to you said-- -- what's the answer, gang? how many people say, "it's the same amount. "hey, it's gonna cool. it's the same way, either way. "make no difference. hey, wait a minute, though. "hey, wait a minute. "no, if you crush the ice, you gotta get a whole a lot "of little pieces. "and a whole a lot of little pieces "will have more combined area, than a big piece. crush it up. crush it up." how many people say, yeah? yey. and you got a great big log and you wanna light it with a match. someone says, leave it in a great big log, it'll last longer, so you have it all night. so you take your match-- what are you doing with a log? you shave off little pieces? and when you get little pieces, why will it catch fire quicker? more surface area. more surface area. more surface area. yeah. you got some steel wool sitting in your sink. and the steel wool gets rusted out, in one month it's gone. but the same hunk of steel from which it was made will stay there for a year. how come the steel wool gets rusty and rusts away and the hunk of