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On October 4, 1995, The Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA published the following article: The study found that: Gangrelated homicides now account for 68 of all child and adolescent homicides in Los Angeles county. The root causes of violent street gang formation are poverty, stressed families, unemployment, underemployment, undereducation, racism, and the breakdown of sociocultural institutions. To prevent gang violence, the root causes of violent street gang formations must be alleviated, the cycle of violent street gang involvement must be broken, and access to firearms must be limited. Reprint requests to the Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, Ma 02115 Dr. On July 24, 1995, in a recorded call to Voice of Citizens Together, an individual who identified himself as a MexicanAmerican warned that Hispanics and Latinos would soon refuse to obey white authority and when that happened even the President

 

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