Persuasive Essay Writing Prompt: Should the LAPD institute a gang injunction for gangs in the Echo Park area? Why/Why not? Do you think this would be effective tool in stopping gang activity in the city? Does this violate peoples’ civil rights? Write a argumentative essay, backing it up with textual details from the following articles/videos. You may also refer to our class texts, Luis Rodriguez’s Always Running and Elijah Anderson’s “The Code of the Streets.”
Texts:
- “Gang injunction granted in Echo Park” (LA Times)
- “LAPD gang injunctions deny targets due process, ACLU lawsuit says” (LA Times)
- “LAPD begins serving Echo Park gang injunction papers” (KPCC)
- Gang Injunctions Fact Sheet (ACLU)
- Gang Injunctions (Streetgangs.com)
- “A Court Made It Illegal For This Guy To Be Seen With His Dad In Public And Now He’s Fighting Back” (Buzzfeed News)
- “Los Angeles sued over gang injunctions affecting thousands” (KPCC)
- “L.A. Gang History Runs Deep” (LA Daily News)
- “Gang Injunctions” (LAPD)
- “Gangs” (LAPD)
- “Gang injunctions are useful tools – if they aren’t abused” (LATimes)
- “Labeling Latino Kids as Gangsters” (CounterPunch)
- “The Code of the Streets“ (Elijah Anderson, The Atlantic)
Media:
- “Echo Park Gang Injunction” (YouthCineMedia)
- “Gang Injunctions” (Alex Alonso, Streetgangs.com)
- “Is a Gang Injunction Needed in Echo Park?” (Which Way, LA? KCRW)
- “Community Invited to Discuss Possible Gang Injunction” (KEYT)
- “Ex-gang member earns his way off injunction” (San Diego Union-Tribune)
- “Oakland’s Gang Injunctions” (Making Content Media, YouTube)
- “Gang Injunction: Problem or Solution?” (Making Contact, PRX)
- “Unconstitutional Gang Injunction” (KGTV)
- Trailer for Crips and Bloods: Made In America
- Trailer for LTO: License To Operate
Writing Process:
- Persuasion Map (readwritethink)
- Gang Injunctions Tree Map
- Paperrater
- Hemingwayapp
- Grammarly
- AVID Transitions
