Getting In

Can you imagine getting beat up half to death by you’re so called friends for a certain amount of time, or being pressure to have sex with eleven members to allow you in the so called “familia”? It sounds crazy right, but people do this kind of things to get in. Getting jumped in, which means getting beat up by members of the gang is the most common way to get affiliated into a gang? It was mostly used to get the guys in, but now more and more girls are usually doing it this way to get recruited. They can get sexed in also, but doing it this way they wouldn’t get much respect, and sometimes they were only recognized as associates of the gang and not members. Although every gang has their own rules, and their own ways, getting jumped in is the most frequent way they use to get in a gang.

What motives people have to join a gang?

Do you ever wonder what motives people have to join a gang, why would they want that lifestyle? There are many reasons why they do it. There’s does who don’t have a choice, since it’s a life there just born into. With all their family being members it’s the only way of living they know, so they just don’t know any better. Other people do for protection either in the streets or in prison. When you’re in prison you pretty much don’t have a choice; you’re practically forced into a gang. You need protection in prison, and the gang you join is going to provide that for you. If you don’t join a gang according to your race you’re just going to be alone an outsider. You might end up becoming someone’s victim in different ways, such as rape, getting a beating and other things. While In the streets its just protection from people out to get you. There’s others that do it to have a sense of belonging, for the gang makes them feel a part of something, it makes them feel needed, they think they have a family to turn to, something they may lack at home. Problems at home may also push a lost kid into a gang. And one of the dumbest reason people join, for fun. They might think the gang life is all a fun and games that it’s full of parties, drugs, alcohol, and being respected in the neighborhood. But how can a life filled with death all around you, crime, violence, and having to watch your back because you don’t know when the rival gang is going to get you be fun.

Some Gang Topics

What are gangs?Its a group of criminals or hoodlums who band together for mutual protection and profit.The topic I choose to write about is the gang life. Some of the topics I am going to be covering are how you get initiated into a gang, what they are asked to do to be considered a member, like getting jumped in into the gang for guys, and for girls having sex with members of the gang. Another topic is why they decide to join, what their motives are, and what they think their going to get out of it. Some may think they get respect and others may want to join for protection. Also, I am going to be covering the problems gangs bring to the community there apart of, such as violence, drugs, and robbery and other criminal behavior. I choose this topic because I thought it would be interesting, people need to know and be aware about the gang life,there's more to them then the reputation they have. We also need to understand whats going on in order to find a solution to gang violence.