U2 (Musical group)
Contents: Even better than the real thing -- Mysterious ways -- Beautiful day -- Electrical storm (William Orbit mix)-New song -- One -- Miss Sarajevo -- Stay (Faraway, so close!) -- Stuck in a moment you can't get out of -- Gone (new mix) -- Until the end of the world -- The hands that built America (theme from 'Gangs of New York')-New song -- Discotheque (new mix) -- Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope/Island Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK U2Summary: This program examines the close correlation between gang activity and the music many youths are listening to today, "gangster rap. The program features Sgt. Ron Stallworth, who heads the unit dealing with gangs at the Utah Division of Investigation. Sgt. Stallworth has frequently testified about gangs and gang violence before Congress and police and civic groups. He is the author of Gangster...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Police estimate that there are 31,000 gangs currently operating in the U.S., with more than 800,000 members-many of whom are women. In this program, ABC News correspondent Cynthia McFadden interviews female members of two Los Angeles gangs-the Drifters and Tepa 13-while correspondent John Quinones talks with King Tone, the radical leader of New York City's notorious Latin Kings. In addition,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This collection of documentaries produced by A & E presents a broad overview of organized crime in America, beginning with immigrants who formed gangs soon after arriving in the late 19th century. The focus is on Italian-American gangsters, though there are mentions of Irish and Jewish gangs, which at various times cooperated with or competed against the Mafia, and one program in the collection...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2001
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAFQueen, William.
Summary: In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a "confidential informant" made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols (the scourge of Southern California, and one of the most dangerous gangs in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1066 QUESanchez, Reymundo
Summary: Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and sex. He was left to fend for himself before the age of 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his refuge and his world, but its violence cost him friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly his life. This is a raw and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2007
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Summary: In the 1990s, thousands of Salvadoran nationals living illegally in the U.S. were deported to their homeland. Some took Los Angeles gang culture with them. This Wide Angle report documents six months spent inside the transnational gang known as "18"-a Salvadoran permutation of L.A.'s notorious 18th Street gang. Following teenage "homeboys" as they patrol their turf in the streets of San...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006