http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2008/05/28/the-inconvenient-truth-about-anti-gang-legislation/ Affecting NC public policy through informed, energetic and progressive conversations. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:14:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2008/05/28/the-inconvenient-truth-about-anti-gang-legislation/#comment-111159 Gang pattern policy street Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:54:56 +0000 http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/?p=1134#comment-111159 [...] The Progressive Pulse – The inconvenient truth about “anti-gang 28 May 2008. It would make it a felony for anyone to be a member of a "criminal street gang" while participating in "a pattern of criminal street gang The Progressive Pulse – The inconvenient truth about “anti-gang [...] [...] The Progressive Pulse – The inconvenient truth about “anti-gang 28 May 2008. It would make it a felony for anyone to be a member of a "criminal street gang" while participating in "a pattern of criminal street gang The Progressive Pulse – The inconvenient truth about “anti-gang [...]

]]> http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2008/05/28/the-inconvenient-truth-about-anti-gang-legislation/#comment-10734 Rob Schofield Wed, 28 May 2008 13:38:30 +0000 http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/?p=1134#comment-10734 The House failed to "concur" in the Senate's version of the bill yesterday, so it's probably headed to a conference committee so that a final draft can be put together. There's some hope that the new version will be slightly improved, but the bottom line is likely to remain the same: more teens chucked in jail so that they can be trained as career criminals and far too litle money for real, up-front intervention programs. The House failed to “concur” in the Senate’s version of the bill yesterday, so it’s probably headed to a conference committee so that a final draft can be put together. There’s some hope that the new version will be slightly improved, but the bottom line is likely to remain the same: more teens chucked in jail so that they can be trained as career criminals and far too litle money for real, up-front intervention programs.

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