Townsend St Gang Injunction, Is it good or bad? (employment, death, solution)

[Fast Cat]

The Orange County DA office and the Santa Ana PD want to implement an injunction issued through the court system to limit the activities of the Townsend Street Gang in their main operating area near Jerome Park in Santa Ana.

Gang injunction in Santa Ana will do more harm than good, critics say

Boy’s Death Becomes Flashpoint in Battle Over Gang Injunction

Are injunctions an effective crime fighting tool or does it merely suppress individual's civil rights?

[bUU]

It is a dual-edge sword. Studies show that such injunctions are effective. [Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Gang Injunctions in California. Matthew O'Deane. The Journal of Criminal Justice Research (JCJR), March 2011. Et al.] They're not a permanent solution, but they do reduce violence while other measures to address the underlying problems are attempted. The local origination helps ensure that the impact on civil rights is small and therefore much smaller than the benefits highlighted in the studies. The big problem is that the long-term solution often never comes, typically because of a lack of will on the part of the citizens to address the root causes. In a way, such injunctions can be used as a cynical tactic by those who wish to minimize progressive responses to poverty, joblessness, and other aspects of economic disparity, because they weaken the will of voters to support leaders who would support poverty relief, employment initiatives, and other government efforts to reduce economic injustice.

[BentBow]

A scope, silencer and a high rooftop, cures all evils.

[T-310]

An injunction against hood rats? I am all for it.

[BentBow]

What kind of a false sense of security is this?

Free people, will be free, until you kill them.... King George

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by BentBow

A scope, silencer and a high rooftop, cures all evils.

Govt. hit squads in lieu of due process? I know you have to be joking with your pro-constitution, smaller gov views.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by BentBow

What kind of a false sense of security is this?

Free people, will be free, until you kill them.... King George

I think the idea is to disrupt them and if they violate the injunction they can round them up.
Kinda like a restraining order.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by BentBow

A scope, silencer and a high rooftop, cures all evils.

Ah, the latest pronouncement from The Charles Whitman School of Government

[rbohm]

Originally Posted by BentBow

A scope, silencer and a high rooftop, cures all evils.

Originally Posted by burdell

Ah, the latest pronouncement from The Charles Whitman School of Government

i was going to say shades of two minute warning but your analogy is better.

[texdav]

Why not get with FEDs and enforce RICO for organized criminal activity. if that is the problem. never heard of the so called gang; seems a local problem.