Black and Gold Across the Atlantic?

Tue22Nov2005

Black and Gold Across the Atlantic?

Immigrants make people nervous, especially after the fires of Paris. You would think that other European countries would take France's example of police abuse and its consequences to heart when dealing with young immigrants and their children struggling to make ends meet. But no, it seems much easier for Spain to revert to the tried and true ways of using the

strategy for tackling the gangs that involves more rigorous policing of areas where members meet. Spain will expel gang members if prosecutors can prove they're violent

There is a concern in Spain that Latino gangs " may have committed three murders this year". That big maybe is enough to link crimes to young people that are calling themselves the "Latin Kings" after the black and gold clad street organization that began in the prisons of the Midwest and moved across the United States.

Looking at how the anti-gang strategies led by police and federal agencies in the United States have failed to solve the problems of inner city youth of color and how the heavy handed policies of France also failed, why doesn't Spain try a different approach?

Via / Hispanic Tips and Bloomberg.com

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1. Octavio Isaac Rojas Orduña ~ Tuesday, Nov 22 2005 | 16:35H:

Have to say that the majority of young latinos in Spain are all treated like if they were "Latin Kings" and, therefore, as if they were "criminals".

I must say, that some of them are criminals, but it is unfair to asume that the big majority are criminals too.

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