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Mayor's Blue Ribbon Crime Prevention Committee
Meeting Minutes

PLACE: Cesar Chavez Library, Stewart Hazelton Room
605 North El Dorado Street

DATE/TIME: December 14, 2005
3:30 p.m.

Opening Comments:

• The Meeting was called to order by Mayor Edward Chavez at 3:36 p.m.
• Mayor Chavez gave his welcome remarks.

OPEN DISCUSSION:

Mayor Chavez introduced Sergeant Rodney Rego from the Stockton Police Department’s Gang Violence Suppression Unit, Investigations Division.  Sgt. Rego has been with the unit for 12 years.

Sgt. Rego gave a PowerPoint presentation* on the subject of gangs in the Stockton area. 

• What is the Gang Violence Suppression Unit?
• The Gang Violence Suppression Unit consists of a team of specialized uniformed officers that concentrate their efforts in high gang problem neighborhoods.
• The District Attorney’s office has a gang unit that works very close with this group.
• Unit also works with the Sheriffs office, County Probation, Department of Justice, PACT, CDC Parole, CYA Parole and more.
• What is a gang?
• Penal Code 186.22 - "Any ongoing organization, association, or group of three or more persons, whether formal or informal, having as one of its primary activities the commission of... criminal acts... having a common name or common identifying sign or symbol, and whose members individually or collectively engage in, or have engaged in, a pattern of criminal gang activity."
• Top crimes
• Drive by shootings;
• Drug sale/use;
• Assault with a deadly weapon;
• Theft;
• Graffiti/tagging;
• Car jackings.
• Validation process
• Gangs are validated through FI cards, reports, interviews and photos.
• Gang Member criteria
• Self admission;
• Photos, graffiti, letters, etc.;
• Named by a reliable source;
• Gang tattoo;
• Court, jail or in custody admission;
• Arrested with other gang members;
• Hanging out with other gang members.
• Stockton gangs
• 96 validated gangs
• 2,606 gang member
• This is up almost 500 in the last 2 years.
• Hispanic Gangs
• Surenos
• Started in 1940s in Southern California
• “Zoot Suit Riots”
• Associated with the color blue
• Identify with the symbol 13 or 3 dots
• Refer to Nortenos as busters
• Stockton Sureno gangs include 18th Street Surenos, Playboy Surenos, Vicky’s Town Surenos
• Nortenos
• Started in 1960s in the California prison system
•  Associated with the color red
• Identify with the symbol 14 or 4 dots
• Refer to Surenos as scraps
• Stockton Norteno gangs include Clay St., Central St. Locos,  East Side Nortenos
• Asian Gangs
• Crips
• Crip gangs that get along with each other
• Asian Boys, Oak Park, G Block, Crazy Town Gangster Crips
• Main hangouts are 3830 Alvarado, Jill Circle, Greensboro, Fox Creek
• Loner gangs
• Asian Street Walkers
• Hated by all other Crip gangs
• Original Gangster Crips
• Down Ass Juveniles
• Main hangouts are Kentfield, Stacy
• Tiny Rascals Gang
• Associated with the colors gray and red
• Identify with the symbol 7126
• Associated with blood gangs
• Violent gang
• Main hangout is the 4400 block of Manchester
• Bloods
• Refer to Crips as crabs
• Main hangouts are Pixie Woods and Kelley Court
• Hmong Gangs
• Masters of Destruction
• Blood gang
• Main hangouts are Ringwood, Farmington Apartments
• African American Gangs
• Crips
• North Side Gang Crips
• 44 Gangster Crips
• Involved with robberies and drug sales
• Actively recruiting members
• Main hangout is the Kentfield/Bianchi area
• Bloods
• South Mob Gang
• Quite until recently
• Actively recruiting members, they have set a goal of 300 members
• Main hangout is Sierra Vista
• West Side Bloods
• Racial lines are blurred
• Main hangout is Pixie Woods
• Crow Valley Boys
• Inactive for years
• Main hangouts are east of Airport to Pock, Duck Creek
• What is the Unit doing?
• Education;
• Enforcement;
• Partnerships;
• Teamwork;
• And they never give up.

Questions

• Are there any predominantly white gangs?
• Currently there are no validated white gangs in Stockton.
• Are there any locations in Stockton that should be avoided?
• There are gang members in every community.  You have to use good judgment.
• Can you rehabilitate a gang member?
• It is possible, however very rare.  It is also very hard for someone to get out of gang (it can be deadly).
• How do you keep children out of gangs?
• Education for both children and parents and using Peacekeepers to talk to the children.
• Why does it look like all the gang members in the presentation are young kids, where are the older members?
• Members 30 or older or usually dead or in jail.
• Do organized crime laws apply to gang members?
• Yes, organized crime laws do apply to gang members.

ADJOURN:

The meeting was adjourned at 5:10 p.m.

Next Meeting:

The next Committee Meeting has been scheduled for January 11, 2006 at 3:30 p.m. at the Stewart Hazelton Room of the Cesar Chavez Library located at 605 N. El Dorado Street, Stockton.  The committee will hear a presentation from County Administrator Manuel Lopez.

*Due to actually gang member photos in the presentation, the PowerPoint presentation could not be handed out.