No Colors
100 Ways to Stop Gangs from Taking Away Our Communities
Published on 1. October 2018
324 pages
978-1-61448-100-3 (ISBN)
Description
A vital guide to keeping gangs and youth violence out of your community-including one hundred ways to keep your kids safe.
No community wants to admit it has a gang problem, but the unwillingness to address youth violence can have tragic consequences. This book-and the significant research on which it is based-represents many voices, experiences, and community efforts in the battle against our national gang crisis. It is an inspiring guide to preventing the epidemic of youth violence from destroying our families and eroding our neighborhoods. No Colors gives citizens, community and business leaders, elected and appointed officials, educators, and clergy a set of best practices to help municipalities stand against gangs.
The good news is that many cities are winning this battle for the minds and hearts of our kids. These success stories are highlighted to help you shape your community's plan. Find out how you can "gang proof" your schools and recognize early warning signs, broaden your role beyond punishment to rewarding interventions, and use faith-based initiatives to save your children.
At the very least, this book will inform you. It will likely enlighten you. And if you are open to its compelling message, it may even move you to action.
No community wants to admit it has a gang problem, but the unwillingness to address youth violence can have tragic consequences. This book-and the significant research on which it is based-represents many voices, experiences, and community efforts in the battle against our national gang crisis. It is an inspiring guide to preventing the epidemic of youth violence from destroying our families and eroding our neighborhoods. No Colors gives citizens, community and business leaders, elected and appointed officials, educators, and clergy a set of best practices to help municipalities stand against gangs.
The good news is that many cities are winning this battle for the minds and hearts of our kids. These success stories are highlighted to help you shape your community's plan. Find out how you can "gang proof" your schools and recognize early warning signs, broaden your role beyond punishment to rewarding interventions, and use faith-based initiatives to save your children.
At the very least, this book will inform you. It will likely enlighten you. And if you are open to its compelling message, it may even move you to action.
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Bobby Kipper is founder of the National Center for the Prevention of Community Violence. He is a battle-hardened ex-cop with a quarter century of community policing in one of America's toughest gang environments. Kipper organized one of the most effective crime prevention programs ever developed by the Justice Department. He has consulted for the White House, for Congress, for governors and for communities across the nation. Bud Ramey is the 2010 Public Affairs Silver Anvil Award winner of the Public Relations Society of America - the highest public affairs recognition in the world. His grassroots public affairs and humanitarian successes stretch across three decades.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Part One: America'S Nightmare
- The Problem
- The Denial
- Why Now?
- Just How Bad Can This Get?
- How Are Communities Responding?
- What Is Working
- Part Two: 100 Tactics For Saving Your Community From Gangs
- 1. Proclaim a New Social Norm: Citizens Set the Strategy Executive Summary
- 2. Face Down Community Denial
- 3. Develop Overall Community Ownership of the Plan
- 4. "View the Seeds of the Problem"
- 5. Pick a Civic Group Champion
- 6. Empower Your Mayor to Lead - Or Elect a New One Who Will
- 7. Reach Deep into the Community for Your Plan
- 8. Separate, Empower the Operational Council
- 9. Focus on the Worst Problems First
- 10. Create the Vision and Clear Goals
- 11. Tear Down the Walls - Relationships Matter
- 12. Fund Measured Programs That Work
- 13. Expect Resistance after Years of Heads Buried in the Sand
- 14. Harness Faith-Based Interventions
- 15. Set Clear Goals from 10,000 Feet
- 16. Measurement Is Everything - Indicators to Steer By
- 17. Assure an Independent Audit
- 18. Conduct Baseline Survey of Student Perceptions
- 19. Make Sure the News Media Understands
- 20. Train Community Leaders as well as the Providers
- 21. Communicate Aggressively, Continuously
- 22. Partner with Your Local University
- 23. Reconnect Community and Schools
- 24. Publish a Gang Awareness Resource to the Community
- 25. Expand After School Activities, Police Athletic League
- 26. Seed Each High School with Student Leaders Trained in Mediation, Inclusiveness, Race Relations, Non-Violence
- 27. Let the Kids Design "Stop Bullying" Programs
- 28. Small School Efforts Pay Dividends
- 29. Deflect Violence with Non-confrontational Conversations
- 30. Create Safe Street Teams
- 31. Camps Build Trust with Police
- 32. Deliver Creative School Interventions in Elementary, Middle and High School
- 33. Gang Exit Centers - Rescuing Kids from Gangs
- 34. Middle Schoolers Targeted as Key Rural Strategy
- 35. Generate Amazing Results with Restorative Justice in Schools
- 36. Teach Business English, Social Skills in Elementary School
- 37. Take Truancy Interventions to the Homes
- 38. Go With Special Efforts to Target Hard to Reach Hispanic Youth
- 39. Train School Board Members and "Student Advocates"
- 40. De-Glamorize Gang Culture
- 41. Consider Fifteen Absolutely Essential School Anti-Gang Initiatives
- 42. Challenge and Reward At-Risk Elementary and Middle School Kids Directly
- 43. D.A.R.E. Works - Bring It Back. Strengthen It.
- 44. Deploy the Boys & Girls Clubs in Targeted Schools
- 45. Lights On After School
- 46. Remove Graffiti Immediately
- 47. Hire At-Risk Youth
- 48. GPS Gang Members like High-risk Sex Offenders
- 49. Hold Regular Gang Prevention Community Meetings
- 50. Engineer Second Chances for Exiting Gang Members
- 51. Bring Civil Suits Against Gang Members
- 52. Open and Program Your Recreation Centers at Night
- 53. Send a Strong Message to Teens That They Are Important to the Community.
- 54. Develop a Support Program for Parents of Gang Members
- 55. Create a Youth-Led Movement Against Violence
- 56. Use Great Resources Well - But Don't Over Complicate Your Plan
- 57. Strengthen Prevention with the Arts
- 58. Cool Bus Picks Up Kids for After School Activities
- 59. Create Interventions for the 19- to 25-Year-Olds
- 60. Proclaim Youth Violence Prevention Week
- 61. Create a Funding Strategy and Build Neighborhood Centers
- 62. Operate a Confidential Telephone Tip Line
- 63. Develop Violent Crime Suppression Teams
- 64. Operate a Confidential Texting Program
- 65. Create Sporting Events Especially for At-Risk Kids
- 66. Bring in the Hospitals for Powerful Interventions
- 67. Form a Prisoner Re-entry Council
- 68. Create a Focused Strike Team for a Hardened Base of Crime
- 69. Work with Your State Elected Officials.Much Can Be Done
- 70. Create Special Events to Raise Funds and Awareness
- 71. Get Business Fired Up
- 72. Study CeaseFire as a Strategic Option
- 73. Mainstream At-Risk Kids into Normal Channels
- 74. Create a Season of Peace Campaign
- 75. Offer Life Altering Tattoo Removal
- 76. Call in a Warning to the Gang Leaders
- 77. Enforce Curfew with Sweeps
- 78. Get At-Risk Kids into Outdoor Adventure, Exploration
- 79. Create Robust Summer Activities, Jobs for At-Risk Kids
- 80. Insist On a Planned Budget for Gang Prevention Strategy
- 81. Nurture Growth of Neighborhood Crime Watch Programs
- 82. Set Up Family Days and Neighborhood Nights
- 83. Explain the Situation in Detail to Your Citizens
- 84. Quit Imprisoning Nonviolent Offenders
- 85. Work Closely with Neighboring Jurisdictions
- 86. Know At-Risk Kids by Name
- 87. Promote Your Initiatives Using Websites and Social Media
- 88. Expand the Role of Police with Community Policing
- 89. Deploy Prosecutors in the Neighborhoods with Community Prosecution
- 90. Call for Injunctions Against Specific Gangs
- 91. Don't Let Gangs Take Over Your Shopping Mall
- 92. Check your State Gang Statutes - Prosecute Gang Recruitment
- 93. Cultural Targeting of Parenting Classes Creates Support Groups
- 94. Consider the Judicial Innovation of Community Courts
- 95. Attack Poverty's Impact on Young People with a Youth Enrichment Zone
- 96. Share, Communicate, Cooperate with Regional Gang Summits
- 97. House Calls
- 98. Confront Gangs with a Trained Ministers Ride-Along Campaign
- 99. Walking School Bus Creates Safer Neighborhoods
- 100. Honor the Heroes - Create Peace Prize for Interventionists
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- About the Authors
