How effective are gang injunctions in dealing with urban crime?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about gang injunctions, or court orders that prohibit alleged gang members from activities--including associating with one another--inside a proscribed area. Proponents say injunctions make communities safer from gang violence. Opponents say they perpetuate police repression at inordinate cost to the city. Do you live in an area affected by gang violence or gang injunctions? What do you think is the best solution? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Holly Kernan and you.

Guests:
Ali Winston, reporter for "The Informant" at KALW News

Whitney Walton, organizer with Oakland's Stop the Injunctions Coalition

Pat Kernighan, Oakland City Councilperson for District 2 and chair of the Public Safety Committee.

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How do you fight despair and meet the world with a loving heart?

How do you fight despair and learn to meet the world with a loving heart? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Father Gregory Boyle, author of Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. For more than 20 years, Father Boyle has worked tirelessly to make peace and create opportunities in the Los Angeles neighborhood with the highest concentration of gang violence. What can young people's stories tell us about what's required for real peace in the streets? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guest:
Father Gregory Boyle, executive director of Homeboy Industries

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What Do Young People Say about the Richmond High Rape?

How are young people around Northern California responding to the gang rape of a Richmond High student outside the homecoming dance? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with a panel of students about how they can they help us understand about how it happened. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How we can stop it from happening again? It's Your call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Renee Caridan, senior at De Anza High School in Richmond

Timothy Jackson, executive director of the Bay Area Stop Hating Movement

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What's the best way to break the cycle of gang violence?

What's the best way to break the cycle of gang violence? The U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of Ed recently called for a national conversation on youth violence. We'll look at the "Ceasefire" project that's been implemented in Boston, Salinas, Stockton and Oakland. Can the threat of swift punishment, coupled with promise of job training and social services stop gang violence? And does it get at the root problems that drive young people to gangs?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's the best way to stop the cycle of gang violence? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Julie Reynolds of the Monterey Country Herald.

Victor Rios, professor of Sociology at UC Santa Barbara.

Jose Gomez and Ralph Womack, Stockton Operation Peacekeepers.

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Your Call 011708 What don’t we know about gang life?

What don’t we know about the realities of gang life? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with Sudhir Venkatesh, a Columbia University sociologist and author of Gang Leader for a Day. Venkatesh spent almost a decade hanging out with crack-selling gang members and struggling poor residents in one of Chicago’s most notorious public housing projects. How do gang members see themselves as fitting in with society? How do they fit into your community? And what will it take to break the cycle of poverty, drugs, and violence in places like Chicago's Projects? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Sudhir Venkatesh
Author of Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

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