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Gang Hotline

Do you have information about gang activity in your community and are afraid to call the police? Please call (619) 533-4874. This is an anonymous line and your name will be kept confidential. Your information will be passed on to appropriate authorities. Thank you for your concern and help.

Positive Activities

To keep your children engaged in positive activities, view a list of local recreation sites (PDF: 150K).

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For details about how San Diego documents gang members, please read: Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Gang Documentation (PDF:227K).

Family Resources

Is your child struggling in school? Are you looking for family counseling services? Building Bridges Together has a resource line that can help you: (888) 843-5800 (toll free).

Commission on Gang Prevention & Intervention Resource Guide
Our Community Resource Guide (PDF: 527K) is a dynamic document that is frequently updated. It is sorted by communities and zipcodes. You are welcome to give us feedback and updated information at gangcommission@sandiego.gov Thank you for your support.

General Information

Graffiti is Not Art

Graffiti is not art; it is vandalism. It is prohibited when done without permission of the property owner. Furthermore, San Diego Municipal Code Section 54.0405 requires that property owners keep all walls, buildings, fences, signs and other structures and surfaces visible from the public right-of-way free of graffiti.

New City Ordinance

In November 2000, the San Diego City Council amended the City's Graffiti Ordinance to revise the official definition of "graffiti" as follows:
"Graffiti means any unauthorized inscription, word, figure, picture, or design that is sprayed, marked, cut, posted, pasted or otherwise affixed, drawn or painted on any surface of public or private property."

Report Graffiti

To report graffiti please call 9-1-1 and visit the Reporting Graffiti Web page for details on rewards for reporting graffiti.

For more information visit the City's Graffiti Control Program Web page.

The City's Citizens Review Board

The City of San Diego Citizens Review Board created a video designed to take some of the mystery out of the Board process. A traffic stop scenario sets the stage to describe the investigation and review process we have in the City of San Diego. The 12-minute video is accessible on this website, http://www.sandiego.gov/citizensreviewboard and click on "Watch Video About..."

A Film about Crips and Bloods

From the beginnings of L.A.'s gang culture to the war-zone reality of daily life in the South L.A., this film follows the rise of the Crips and Bloods, tracing the origins of their bloody four-decades long feud. Contemporary and former gang members offer their street-level testimony that provides the film with a stark portrait of modern-day gang life: the turf wars and territorialism, the inter-gang hierarchy and family structure, the rules of behavior, the culture of guns, death and dishonor.

Throughout the film, ex-gang members, gang intervention experts, writers, activists and academics analyze many of the issues that contribute to South LA's malaise: the erosion of identity that fuels the self-perpetuating legacy of black self-hatred, the disappearance of the African-American father and an almost pervasive prison culture, in which today one out of every four black men will be imprisoned at some point in his life.

Finally the gang members themselves articulate their enduring dream of a better life: a message of hope and a cautionary tale of redemption aimed at saving the lives of a new generation of kids, not just in South L.A. but anywhere in the world that gang violence exists.

83 minutes
Color / Stereo
Closed Captioned
Grade Level: 10-12, College, Adult
US Release Date: 2009
Directed by Stacy Peralta


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